Your thougths on BigDog? The new robot made by Boston Dynamics

[oddsigve]

Here`s a link if you haven't already seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g#t=77

 

[publiusr]

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

 

[larryman]

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

 

[Metryq]

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.

 

[Magellan]

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

 

[Metryq]

^ "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I'm hunting humans. Heh-heh-heh!"

 

[Into Darkness]

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.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Here`s a link if you haven't already seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g#t=77

Enter the Rat Thing.

 

[publiusr]

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

 

[RAMA]

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!