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IMO who cares if they run fast. Of course they can. They are robots. I would prefer them if at all, washing my car or dishes.
It's pretty clear that robotics hardware has advanced way beyond the software. Do a backflip? No problem, that's a predefined routine with good secondary control mechanisms to handle the variation between requested movement and actual movement.
Pick up a dish? Well, that's going to take vision, control, understanding of how the grabber and various materials interact, and then fuse all that data into an expected result and a plan of action, then control of unexpected things like the plate slipping or the floor being slightly wet.
It's amazing how far we've come and how much it has highlighted how far we have to go.
To me it just shows that they are more focused on making it better for war stuff and less focus on how to make it more utilitarian.
I disagree, it will be worse in almost every way for war than quad copter with a gun mounted on it. Once the brains catch up, maybe, but for now it's going to trip at the first slightly uneven flooring or raised threshold, and completely destroy itself on a power cable laying on the ground.
In the future when we've boarded up all our windows, a quadcopter with a gun isn't walking up my stairs, kicking down my door and then murdering everyone in the house as it does a sweep.