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> Can it get up if knocked over?

Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R7....

> Just how resilient is it?

Watch it on ice https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cN...

I assumed the HN crowd had already seen all these videos.

> I would love to see how it recovers from other than very tame issues

You do know that these things don't pop out of the universe via magic right? Do you understand the engineering issues involved here to be judging the tameness of the tests? Why would they hit their expensive creation with a car?

Regardless of how bad it is, it's probably a lot more resilient than a human in those situations.

Kick a human like that and he'll be like "OH MY GAWD WHY DID YOU KICK ME YOU NERD!". Robot be like "eh I'll get up and keep going"

Hah, read the beginning of this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...

It starts by talking about a minefield clearing robot, but the whole article's really good.

a bow knot around one leg is enough to paralyze it, I suppose