I would have been more impressed if the video showed it stepping through the tyres, instead of up a clear path behind the tyres.
Still, the suggested use cases - hostile environment monitoring /hazardous recon does sound reasonable, though you would want to do a cost/benefit analysis against just using a graduate engineer.
Still early days, and plenty of progress to be made, but the the more these things are used, the more advances will be made.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
