Here's another video in the "Big Dog Is Creepy Cool" category.  This one showcases work from the Ishikawa Komura Laboratory(more videos/background) at the University of Tokyo.

Watch the whole thing.  It's worth it.

Is anyone really prepared for the impact circa 2020ish robotics will bring in labor markets?  What happens to developing economies if the advantage of low cost human labor vanishes?  What happens to "mature" economies?  What happens to capitalism?

Should the policy makers start to plan for the profound, post-labor transition that seems just a generation or two away?

(If you never saw the big dog walking robot video, check it out here.)