Watch the videos at Sony's site. It's pretty awesome.
Wierd. Kinda reminds me of once (long ago) when I was on helpdesk. A woman told me (quite sternly) that if I ever doubted if there were a god why on earth would he have given us the ability to create such marvels. I kind of laughed it off at the time.
Fast forward a few years and that statement keeps on coming back to mind when I see stuff like this. Guess what she said really resonated. Like I said wierd
At one point Alan tells the viewers that the science of robots is to better understand the evolution of humans.
It must have slipped his mind that it took 100s of scientist spending millions of dollars to design the robot and bring it to life. Design = creation.
Fascinating to see the video's of the robot walking up stairs, riding a 'surf board', etc. Amazing motion capabilities. The movie clip where the robot interacts with the kindergartners is almost spooky. If Sony can scale it up and program the bot for simple tasks like cleaning, and cooking they'll have a mega-hit on their hands.