Leopard Walks The Streets of London

Robotic leopard walks London's Trafalgar Square to promote awareness of their endangerment.

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00:00 Londoners were given a pretty cool surprise when a lifelike robotic leopard

00:03 was let loose in London's Trafalgar Square. Lily is a lifelike and life-size

00:07 robot leopard and measuring just over 4 feet long, she has 40 moving parts, most

00:11 of which are focused on her face. If you look at the leopard's face, you realize

00:15 that life really is captured in the eyes. It's all in the eyes. Her creator John

00:20 Nolan is well known for creating that gruesome, scary baby Voldemort in the

00:24 Harry Potter series. And now Nolan has teamed up with National Geographic for

00:28 Big Cat Week, bringing awareness to how humans are really encroaching on

00:31 leopards territory, giving them fewer and fewer places to go. Just like we have

00:35 foxes roaming around here at night, the loss of habitat has left leopards no

00:39 choice but to share territory with humans, which is placing the animals at

00:42 growing risk. There is some irony here because he's using a robotic leopard to

00:47 bring attention to the live animal and here we are killing off the live animal,

00:50 which is soon gonna be replaced with the robot. It's really sad actually. As far as

00:56 robotic animals go, Lily is not the first of her kind. Scientists at the Essex

01:00 University in London came up with this very realistic robot fish. LaData said,

01:05 "Whoa! Very realistic!" And SweetieGirl said, "A robot underwater? Wait, how is that

01:10 possible?" With robotic animals looking more and more like the real thing, it is

01:14 actually kind of crazy to think that this might be where we're headed. Except

01:17 there is something to be said about a robotic pet. I mean, you don't have to

01:20 feed it, it doesn't poop, it doesn't shed, but can it love? How would you react if

01:25 you saw this robotic leopard on the street. For more trends like these, head

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