Creepy robot walks like a chicken and could someday deliver groceries

The company, which spun out of the ATRIAS project at Oregon State University, is focused on ‘legged locomotion’ and hopes to someday engineer robots that can walk just like people. 

According to mashable.com, Cassie was built using a 16-month, $1-million grant from the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The custom design took cues from animal morphology and behaviour, including a hip joint with three degrees of freedom and flexible ankle joints, just like a human’s leg. 

The bots could someday be used to assist soldiers in the field, for emergency services like search and rescue missions, or even for tasks like grocery deliveries.