Amazing Walking Vehicles

In 2006 Boston Dynamics, a DARPA contractor, filmed this footage (posted on You Tube) of it prototype for a robotic 'army mule' for carrying supplies over rough ground. Interesting, somewhat impressive. This footage posted in March is getting close to incredible. The machine is amazingly like an animal quadruped when navigating unsure footing or a slippery surface. I could not believe that it could recover from a slip on ice like that. This makes me really think that we might be a decade or two away from robots that move like robots in stories, though obviously not smart/self aware ones. I'm not sure how actually useful these will be for the army, but was a nice project.