Meet DARPA's Humanoid Robot

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Or could be used to "humanely" incapacitate your daughter if she gets mixed up in the wrong kind of campus protest, not too far down the road from now.

Wow that was a fast jump from technology to cynicism/paranoia. This is useful only tethered, under the direct control of an operator.

Fair enough: your daughter will be tear gassed[1] under the tethered, direct control of a human operator then.

[1] tased, pepper sprayed, heatblasted, subject to concussion blasts and/or other non-lethal crowd control measures as deemed necessary and appropriate by the exigent circumstances of the moment.

Why are we yelling?

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