Whoa! I am totally blown away by the just released video of Boston Dynamics' Petman bipedal humanoid robot (check it out later in this post). Bipedal humanoid robots have been in earnest development ...

In 2011 it published a video of an incomplete PETMAN (Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin) performing realistic motions that seem to leapfrog high tech robots developed over the course of decades ...

Well, that's where Boston Dynamics' PETMAN (Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin) humanoid robot comes in. The self-balancing clothes-testing machine can walk, run, crouch, and even do push-ups.

Apparent, advertised purposes aside, though, it's impossible to ignore the fact that PETMAN is an almost-untethered, anthropomorphic, fast-moving robot that's strong enough to carry a weapon.

Boston Dynamics is no Geppetto and PETMAN no Pinnochio, but someone must have wished on a phosphorous flare—decked out in chem-resistant camo and a dystopic gas mask, this robot couldn’t look more ...

Yes, those geniuses over at Boston Dynamics have finally done it: created something even creepier than their last robot, BigDog. The Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin (a.k.a. PETMAN) is finally ...

Unlike PETMAN and many of the other robots on this list, she isn’t the most agile android in the world, but she’s got incredible interaction skills, along with the ability to make human-like ...

Petman is an anthropomorphic robot created to perform various human movements such as walking, squatting, and even flexing. Like most of Boston Dynamics’ creations, it has the ability to move ...

Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot is the evolution of the company's Petman robot above. Atlas was designed to illustrate how robots can achieve human-like mobility, and it's terrifyingly close.

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve all been wondering why Google bought Boston Dynamics, the company that makes those creepy Big Dog and PETMAN robots for the military. This comes after the ...