[Dr. Bobsky]

These aren't likely the robots you're looking for. Bipedal frameworks are being developed to improve *other* sorts of robotics automation, but they are intrinsically a poorer starting point. Our bipedal-ness comes from advantages associated with reducing overheating (it was the first stage in our becoming naked/depending upon sweating for cooling), but it comes with costs: lack of stability, slower average pace in short stretches. Since I cannot imagine robots depending upon sweating for cooling anytime soon when heat pipes and optimised fan placement eliminates the need, stationary, quadrupedal or tracked robots are far more likely in our immediate futures...

Frankly, the quadrupedal ones are more terrifying anyway.