This should impress you. It certainly impressed me, and my wife the roboticist. (you may be forgiven for thinking that the latter is harder to do):
All demos are faked, of course – but keep watching to 1:49, where Robo Raven passes the Turing Test. Or, more accurately, the Raptor Test.
Moe Lane
PS: So, why is the Army funding robotic bird research? Why, I can’t imagine why we would want to do something like that.
Its all fun until some idiot breaks it.
I don’t know what YOU think the motivation is, but I’ve seen Hitchcock’s warning.
Ah, that’s how it always starts… the Ooooo-ing and the Aaahh-ing, then the running and the screaming!