Here is a link to the amazing video of the day. It is a quadruped robot called Big Dog. Take a look at the RHex robot as well. Flippin’ amazing. Gee Wally, it’d sure be nice to have some DARPA money.
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This is why the stimulus is doooooomed. That DARPA quadraped robot thing was being held up by a wire!
Shows you what govt spending is good for. I suppose there was a midget inside moving the legs.
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Paintball gun to blind robots..
Wipers on the robot.
Slimeball gun to blind robots.
Layered sequential pull-off films.
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How much noise do they make when moving?
The Big Dog Robot makes quite a racket. It sounds like a chainsaw. What struck me was just how well the limb articulation worked. Watching it climb that pile of cinder blocks, it looks like a mule in the way it finds its footing.
As a weapon or recon device it’d be pretty easy to defeat. But as a pack animal, it has possibilities if you don’t mind the noise.