Forget boring flying cars, here are your DARPA androids

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http://www.hizook.com/blog/2012/04/...umanoid-robots-preliminary-unofficial-details

Now THAT is the start of something big and useful.

RAMA

 

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If this will be done, then construction cost should fall dramatically, enabling the construction of, for example, subaquatic cities or the Startram cheap LEO launch system (http://www.gizmag.com/startram-maglev-to-leo/21700/).