I opened the article expecting it was going to be about clone robotics https://youtu.be/5mSE6Tkhy4g?si=tDp0DUI9OOXAwsX2
Cool... their biggest failure pushed them to find what they are actually good at.
It's robot from 1990 and no, there is no video of the robot actually walking.
A guy named Walker developing legged-robot software is even more on the nose than a guy named Karpathy developing autonomous-vehicle software.
I would love to see this with nitinol wire muscles.