When I first saw the video below, I was certain that the little cowboy robot was computer-generated or possibly an image created with artificial intelligence, since we have been inundated with that kind of content lately. Most of us have seen the Boston Dynamics videos where robots run, jump, and get up when they fall, but those videos are always filmed in a laboratory. I have never seen one of these rascals running amok in the wild.
You can check out the video for yourself by scrolling to the bottom of this article.
Strange robot in hat runs wild in Austin streets
But then I stumbled across the video below. It’s the same robot wearing a cowboy hat tooling around in a mall. But it is not some sort of autonomous creature running around on its own. You can clearly see that the guy behind it has a remote and is controlling it with a joystick.
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