{"id":663907,"date":"2026-06-29T06:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663907\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:51:30","slug":"video-this-terrifying-ai-designed-robot-will-never-stop-chasing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663907\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: This terrifying, AI-designed robot will never stop chasing you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, your eyes aren\u2019t deceiving you \u2013 this odd-looking sculpture is moving. Running, in fact. That\u2019s because it&#8217;s actually a robot, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/future-technology\/robots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/modularlegs.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Legged metamachines<\/a>\u2019, as they\u2019re officially known, are made of spherical modules, each containing a motor, battery and computer, and a pair of arms.<\/p>\n<p>On their own, each module can roll, turn and jump. But when linked together, they can walk, run and right themselves when flipped over.<\/p>\n<p>They can even figure out new ways of moving should they lose one or more of their limbs \u2013 if a researcher lops one off to test the machines\u2019 adaptability, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>The AI-designed machines can run, recover from damage and transform into new shapes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can recover easily from major injuries that would be fatal to every other robot,\u201d is how the researchers who built the machines put it. \u2018It absolutely will not stop,\u2019 is what fans of a certain sci-fi film are probably thinking when they hear that.<\/p>\n<p>The Terminator echoes don\u2019t end there, though. The legged metamachines were made by a team of engineers at Northwestern University, in Chicago, who used an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/future-technology\/artificial-intelligence-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> algorithm to evolve a robot with efficient, versatile movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is survival of the fittest \u2013 accelerated by computers and made real,\u201d is how <a href=\"https:\/\/robotics.northwestern.edu\/people\/profiles\/faculty\/kriegman-sam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sam Kriegman<\/a>, the project\u2019s lead, put it. Here\u2019s hoping that algorithm isn\u2019t called Skynet.<\/p>\n<p>Visit us for more amazing images: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/sciencefocus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pinterest<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, your eyes aren\u2019t deceiving you \u2013 this odd-looking sculpture is moving. Running, in fact. That\u2019s because it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}