Creepy
I know I’ve linked to video Boston Dynamics’ quadrupedal BigDog robot before but it keeps showing up. And that thing still gives me the willies.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 11:31 am
That thing is pretty cool, just kind of follows you around. Although i bet it’s noisy as fuck – i’d tell it to stay back about 200m.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
just sayin’
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 am
Also, they want it for military use?
Hope they dont ever have to be quiet.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
They need to put a head on it. Even if it’s completely ornamental, a head would take a lot of the “creepy” out.
One of those “uncanny valley” deals.
*uncaninely valley?
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
i’m assuming they’ll find a muffler for the final version. apparently they still need it to go several more miles on each tank of gas, and do it while carrying serious payload at that.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
How long before we have robots fighting robots?
Oh wait; that was a TV show.
“apparently they still need it to go several more miles on each tank of gas…”
Nuke power. Just hope yours doesn’t take an AP round to the power supply. Then again, they could come up with a bio-robot that can forrage for its own fuel, has its own sensitive eyesight and smelling capability, and good hearing, but they had something like that hundreds of years ago, didn’t they? I believe they called them “horses”.
If these new, multi-million-dollar pack horses run on gas engines, well; have you ever done hard physical labor close to an internal combustion engine? I have, many times. We referred to it as “bucking bales” (of hay– the engines were used to run the trucks and the elevators. we’d pick up the bales in the field and stack them on trailers, then unload the trailers onto elevators, then pull the bales off the elevators and stack them in the barn). Huff. Barf. Puff. Puke. Wheeze. Gag. Gulp. Faint.
Horses smell much better than engine exhaust when you’re trying to get as much oxygen in your lungs as possible, believe me. Yes, I’ll take one of those, thank you, especially if I have to pay the purchase price.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Reminds me of AMEE from “Red Planet”.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Damn, that’s cool!
February 28th, 2009 at 1:35 am
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