Although it doesn’t reach the treadmill speeds of the Cheetah robot, WildCat isn’t tethered to wires and can rocket across a flat terrain at 16 mph. And, oh yeah, it looks incredibly unsettling while doing so.
As the robot sprints and gallops across the parking lot , it becomes easy to imagine how close we may be coming to military, law enforcement and civilian use of these machines to carry out their everyday affairs — which will ultimately lead to a robot apocalypse, according to the movies.
Take a look at the video above to see what the future holds.