This goes into my "Top 100 really dumb things I've seen this year" list. Not sure if it makes top ten. It's definitely in the top 25%. OK. Why? Let's forge

This goes into my "Top 100 really dumb things I've seen this year" list. Not sure if it makes top ten. It's definitely in the top 25%. OK. Why? Let's forget then "Let's strap model airplane jet engines to the robot and make it fly." part. For this dumb mechanical albatross to be anywhere close to useful in ANY scenario, even without flying...it has to be useful as a humanoid robot. It isn't. iCub was a cool concept, but it is so far behind the current state of the art I am not sure why they are trying to make it fly. And, flying? You can hang a humanoid from any of the already available mega quadcopters and drop it off anywhere within the flight range. You can probably stick a parachute on an already available humanoid and drop dozens of them from an airplane. Flying is a solved problem. A humanoid useful in the real world --particularly in disaster areas-- is not. At all.