image credit to GR

This video clip of the smooth little bot named ‘Plen‘ demonstrates a few of his more impressive abilities. Particularly impressive is the little guy’s figure skating routine. I suppose that if you can get a robot to walk, it’s not too hard to get him to skate, but it still looks pretty awesome. In the video he skates both forward and backward and performs a few tricks as well.

It looks like our little toy robots seem to have the parlor trick thing down. However, this makes me wonder if these demeaning activities we are forcing on them now will only make them more hostile to us when they inevitably rise to their positions of power.

link - Robot-Fan (video clip) [via GoRobotics]