We first told you about this project last year, but DARPA’s new FastRunner – which bears an unsettling resemblance to something from the Metal Gear universe – has come on in leaps and bounds since then. Quite literally.
https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-is-coming-to-life-again-5858576
In this clip, you can see the robot take off up a bunch of stairs, its muscular legs shooting it up as fast as you’d expect a human to manage the feat.
Nothing on Earth scares me more than the image in my head of one of these, armed, chasing me through a ruined town.
Unless it had a shark’s head on it.
For something in a similar vein, albeit a few decades older, check out this feature on another “real” Metal Gear from the 1960s
https://kotaku.com/the-real-metal-gear-5556757
[via Laughing Squid]
