Help Us, Giant Bear Robot!

The National Institute of Standards is conducting tests to evaluate rescue robots.  This is almost a "News From the New Millennium" except that robots are becoming so common in rescue work that it hardly seems weird any more.  The Army, however, is developing a robot for battlefield medical evacuation, known as the BEAR.  The name is an acronym, a relatively non-tortured one ("Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot") and the engineers decided to get cute and give it a teddy-bear head.   The result looks like something which wandered out of a Japanese superhero anime.  One can easily imagine the underage child of one of the developers teaming up with the BEAR to fight bad guys.  It can even transform from humanoid to a kind of tracked centaur shape.  Even if the Army doesn't buy this robot, I think the designers could easily recoup the development cost by selling the toy rights.