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brk
That video has been around for a while and is actually very out of date. Here is a more humanized version of it now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc

Protophore
Wow, that's amazing. It looks so life-like! Those engineers got it right on this one like they made it out of some spare human parts.
jmatt
Excellent, thanks for the entertaining link.
goodness
The slo-mo replay is brilliant
michaelneale
Its impressive, but what I find depressing is that for it to be portable they have to use internal combustion engines (that have the side effect of making it look sound like a mosquito).

Its sad because I guess that makes fossil fuels still the most energy dense and practical portable form of energy.

Its am amazing achievement on the robotics side though.