OK, so this is nowhere near new, and the footage shouldn’t be on YouTube because it belongs to Honda not to someone called “Surronded”, but Sneak still can’t help watching this short video again and again. Asimo - the human-like robot built by car, motorcycle and aircraft maker Honda seemingly for the hell of it - can run. And not just in straight lines. It can run in circles and in slaloms. It’s hypnotic to watch, even if some voice in the back of Sneak’s head does keep saying, “Run, Forrest, run”.

12 Mar 2007