superfluent
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The guys at Boston Dynamics have made a pretty sweet quadroped that is insanely lifelike:
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Pretty sweet robot...
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If I f'n saw that in the forest I'd **** my pants.
Be afraid. Be very afraid...
DAMN!!!!!
That is friggin sweet.
WTF is up with that buzzing noise though?
That is friggin sweet.
WTF is up with that buzzing noise though?
Dude said:
That's the crying soul from the human brain they have powering that demonstrocity.
HighPlainsDrifter
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Whoa.. thats pretty incredible. It looks a little like the legs of two people, one walking forwards and one walking backwards.
I thought that thing was gonna pull a groin on that ice patch.
Dr_Deathweed
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Wow, thats the kinda thing that makes nerds AWESOME!
eschatz
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that thing scares the crap out of me
Beerthoven
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Put an auto-targeting laser sight and a 6000 RPM gatling gun on there and you'd really have something...from Hell.
OTOH, if I were a downed American pilot the sight of one of those things coming to help me would be a God-Send.
I can also imagine applications to earthquake search and rescue, bomb squad work, and collecting magma samples from active volcanos.
OTOH, if I were a downed American pilot the sight of one of those things coming to help me would be a God-Send.
I can also imagine applications to earthquake search and rescue, bomb squad work, and collecting magma samples from active volcanos.
Redweasel
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Cool as hell! Damned creepy but cool as hell!
CodeRage
Death by Magumba!
That is amazing. I saw him kick the thing and the way it recovered had DARPA written all over it. Just unreal!
HighPlainsDrifter said:
That's what I thought the first time I saw that thing about a year back. Then it dawned on me how exactly a dog or a cat's anatomy differs from our own in that the front "knee" is actually an ankle, and the part forward of that is like the bones of our feet.
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It needs to shave it's legs.
Seriously, that is just a remarkable blend of amazing and creepy!
It's little brother is kind of cute. Still, I wouldn't want to see it crawling towards me.
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Seriously, that is just a remarkable blend of amazing and creepy!
It's little brother is kind of cute. Still, I wouldn't want to see it crawling towards me.
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EvilTOJ
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The buzzing noise is coming from the engines packed into it. Now, what would be cool is if you were to cover the thing in a horse's costume, and have a soldier in full body armor sitting on the front of it. Have him steer with his legs or with a HUD.
Yea baby Army Centaurs!
Yea baby Army Centaurs!
rdwj
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How long until we can strap a gun to it and get it in the field?!
cronxitawney
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What is the world coming to when you can't even kick a robot over? Next thing you know, they will be coming after us with guns. I've seen that **** in movies.
Simply amazing.
brauhaus
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if you hop in it's back does it try to kick you off?
i swear i've seen something like that before, but in a nightmare of it chasing me.
i swear i've seen something like that before, but in a nightmare of it chasing me.
Rhoobarb
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It only has those four legs. No arms or hands of any kind. So, what good is it if it can't go to the kitchen and bring me a beer?
