Honda's walking robots are coming to life...
...eeriely lifelike in their ability to walk in curved paths and stay balanced. With extra-strength batteries they could also keep going for decent lengths of time between jolts.
A recent "Discover" magazine interview with Gerald Edelman was interesting because of his work on simulating brains - a 100 million neuron "brain" with 1 billion connections is now actually behaving like the real thing in dynamics and outputs, something never achieved before. Kind of gave me chills of excitement and unease at the same time.
Are we creating our successors? Or our next physicality?