Coolest thing you'll see for a while... unless you're Sarah Connor

[Deimos Anomaly]

Boston Dynamics are working on the ground forces as we know.

The University of Pennsylvania's GRASP lab now seems to be getting the HK's ready:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM[/yt]

 

[Jetfire]

Ready the EMP!!!

 

[Leviathan]

That's it man, game over man, game over!

 

[Beagleman]

Whoa, that is so...cool!

Btw, I hadn't seen the BigDog Video, now that thing freaks me the fuck out!

 

[Ruaidhri]

Holy smokes!

 

[Brandonv]

They kind of remind me of those things that are always coming after Freeman in Half-Life 2.

 

[Holdfast]

The University of Pennsylvania's GRASP lab now seems to be getting the HK's ready...

Impressive maneouverability!

Could wipe out most of humanity, no probs.

 

[Agent Richard07]

It can land on velcro, but can it take off?

 

[Kibbin]

^ ah ha we have their weakness

Quite cool though, I wonder what it would be like to actually fly on one of them, in fact would it be possible to actually build them big enough or would they have to redesign it at that point?

 

[Data Holmes]

Those first two links, the ground force ones, their walking motion reminds me of AT-AT and AT-ST walkers from Star Wars...

 

[gturner]

Boston Dynamics' Big Dog doesn't seem so impressive when you watch the video of the Beta version.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc[/yt]

 

[captcalhoun]

pfft, it'll have a heat signature. IR signature + Stinger MANPADS = death to robot. too small to carry much ordinance or even flares.

 

[gturner]

Heck, en mass those things would be a hoot to shoot with 20 gauge. They're like slow super-fragile skeet.

 

[Kibbin]

Well at least we know we can always disguise ourselves to sneak by them unnoticed
It's fool proof

 

[WillsBabe]

Let's stick the emo memory chip of a whiny 16 year old in one of em. See what happens. Oh, wait ...

 

[Beagleman]

Heck, en mass those things would be a hoot to shoot with 20 gauge. They're like slow super-fragile skeet.

And that's how the war began...

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

So WE started it? We're boned.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Boston Dynamics' Big Dog doesn't seem so impressive when you watch the video of the Beta version.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc[/yt]

Great parody. I thought it was the real thing at first.

In case anyone isn't familiar with "BigDog", here's the real thing...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGo0xsImasw[/yt]

 

[Deimos Anomaly]

They're advancing fast.

Now after incapacitating you in your bolt hole, snipers perch or whatever, a swarm of the infernal things can go up, attach themselves to your prone form, and fly away with you, to whatever hideous fate your enemies desire.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBsJwapanWI
[/yt]

 

[Holdfast]

^ they're learning to work as a hive mind.... time to worry....