YouChoose: treadmills, tennis and lifelike robots

This week's videos include a treadmill that moves, the second videogame and the robot to rule us all. Um..

Version 2 adds a roof and engine

On first viewing, this is the pinnacle of satire: a human-powered treadmill that can be used outdoors, because it's got wheels. Except we're assured it's real. So is it the General Motors rescue plan?

Wimbledon of the future? No

An amazing blast from the past, and arguably the second-ever videogame: "tennis", played on an oscilloscope, written at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958. New bits, please!

Welcome, human underlings!

"Jules", from the Bristol Robotics Lab, has 34 motors, rubber skin and is scarily real. Philip K Dick, where are you?

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YouChoose: treadmills, tennis and lifelike robots

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