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One time, on my way to lunch at 200 Fifth Ave, I stopped at the top of the hill by their parking lot and chuckled as their LS3 robot tried and failed to stand up.

Also, one of them seems to be working on a pulse jet engine as a side project. I heard the world's loudest vuvuzela, went over to check it out, and saw a guy with a rocket engine strapped down to a concrete divider looking at a laptop.

Yeah, for two months I thought wildcat was just a really, really loud weed-wacker that was used every single day.

Wow. And I thought it was cool seeing self-driving cars around Google's campus. Boston Dynamics must be one interesting place to work.

I saw a video of ASIMO falling on some stairs once. As far as we've come with this it seems there's still a lot of engineering left to work out with anything not rolling on wheels.

To be fair, ASIMO is not even in the same league as ATLAS or any of Boston Dynamics' other projects. I've always gotten the feeling that ASIMO is more of a press play by Honda.