These scientists are training dog-like robots to resist human attacks

Have you been worried that robots might one day become smart enough to rebel against humans? If so, you may now have cause for even greater concern. That's because a team of Swiss scientists has been training four-legged robots to be more agile and durable. The robot is called the ANYmal and is being developed by the ANYbotics team at the Zurich-based Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Robotic Systems Lab. In a paper published in Science Robotics, ANYbotics has outlined exactly what sort of (arguably) ill-advised work it has done on the ANYmal.