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How is it practical? It's a beautiful design, but far simpler designs can run circles around it in every scenario I can imagine. A small version might make for a fun desk toy. When I think practical, I think Boston Dynamics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b4ZZQkcNEo

Some pretty silly lines in there:

Object {

boson1: "Reticulating Splines..."

boson2: "There's more Ajax in this loader than an epic greek poem"

boson3: "♬ Reunited and it feels so good"

boson4: "Are you there, Boson? It's me, Margaret."

boson5: "♬ Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater does he get wet?"

exo1: ""Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan"

exo2: "Call me V'Ger"

exo3: "As far as we know, the universe is not Tail Call optimized."

exo-argon: "Investigating: Class J Planet Argon"

exo-bleu: "Detecting: Class H Planet Bleu"

exo-cheddarwurst: "Discovered: Class D Planet Cheddarwurst"

exo-daytripper: "Located: Class M Planet Day Tripper"

exo-dunebuggy: "Detecting: Class D Planet Dune Buggy"

exo-emanthaler: "Located: Class D Planet Emmentaler"

exo-hoth: "Investigating: Class K Planet Hoth"

exo-izod: "Detecting: Class D Planet Golf"

exo-lacoste: "Discovered: Class D Planet Lines"

exo-meangreenie: "Investigating: Class J Planet Mean Greenie"

exo-measels: "Located: Class L Planet Measels"

exo-mumps: "Investigating: Class L Planet Mumps"

exo-neon: "Detecting: Class J Planet Neon"

exo-polo: "Discovered: Class D Planet Colors"

exo-purplehaze: "Discovered: Class D Planet Purple Haze"

exo-tatooine: "Located: Class M Planet Tatooine"

exo-xenon: "Investigating: Class J Planet Xenon"

exo-ziggystardust: "Located: Class L Planet Ziggy Stardust"

neural-banana: "Orange you glad I didn't say banana (╯°□°）╯"

neural-boom: "♬ All we hear is, radio ga ga"

neural-can: "It's got what plants crave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04"

neural-cat: "Cat Proximity: https://xkcd.com/262/"

neural-doge: "WONTFIX: Duplicate Doge joke"

neural-mona: "It's cool and all, but I'm more into his older stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vi...

neural-nes: "What's the fastest TAS you can complete for the I/O 2014 website?"

neural-pong: "Can you do this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8IVASo0umU"

neural-rhex: "Awwww, he's a cute little guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI"

neural-ufo: "Teach the controversy!"

neuralfail0: "Hint: The eyeball follows the correct diamonds"

neuralfail1: "ಠ_ಠ You could scrape the code for patterns, but you should probably get back to work."

neuralfail2: "Hi HackerNews, I dare you not to complain about something involving Big O Notation."

planet1: "I think I can see my house from here."

planet2: "Our apologies to any visitors who suffer from Globophobia."

planet3: "TCP/IP is cool and all, but did I think "IP over Avian Carriers" would be way more fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers"

planet4: "-... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--. / -... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--."

silicon1: "Little known fact: Silicon looks exactly like a beachball under a microscope"

silicon2: " wow↵ such structure↵ so crystalline↵ many atom↵ how connect"

silicon3: "FIXME: Remember to write a joke about silicon"

silicon4: "It's only a model."

}

⬐ thomasahle

The morse code is just 'beep boop beep boop'.

Their RHex bot is pretty impressive too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI

Nice. My friend did his PhD on gecko adhesives too[1]. He later built[2] a "six-legged" robot like Boston Dynamics' RHex 'bot[3].

[1] http://northdesignlabs.com/?page_id=12 [2] http://northdesignlabs.com/?p=38 [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI