It needs to look more fearsome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMaS4pB9rw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3LR3bNekM Also nice: solid air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlC_HKtgBiE Bubble rings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWOBfY7qKk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Cd5FWMusE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pd_ZHw9xH0
I'm not impressed by 'animal' robots. I'm far more impressed by their Atlas 'humanoid' robot. http://gizmodo.com/its-confirmed-da...1073262?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
I've been watching videos of human & animal robots for years. With all due respect to Big Dog and other robots navigating obstacles and remaining upright after a collision on ice, are walking robots really superior to tracked robots? Tracks/treads are potentially much faster and I've seen designs navigate all sorts of obstacles (even climb) just as fast or faster than walking robots. I see this work evolving into prosthetics and bionics, rather than delivering supplies in the battlefield. And Atlas looks like Hector from SATURN 3. Now there was a creepy robot.
It really needs a head or something. Right now it just looks creepy. Of course Im already terrified of these because you know they will be used to hunt humans O_O
Rather than build these robots they should grow animals in vats that are brainless and then place a computer in the empty brain cavity wired up to the body and control it via a human on a computer or give it advanced AI. orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr not. That would be something from a horror movie. I actualy like these four legged robots, there is great potential to this kind of technology.
There was a recent commercial that showed racing robot greyhounds that looked a bit similar http://thetechjournal.com/tech-news...t-greyhounds-racing-in-the-desert-video.xhtml
The usefulness of this robot is that it can go where human legs can...far more places than wheels. The only thing that might be more useful is a drone that hovers...but it would probably take to much power to keep steady and aloft with supplies. The one big problem with BigDog...it's incredibly, painfully, dangerously loud!