The following video shows a working Prototype of the \"BigDog\" robot, this is made by Boston Dynamics and funded by DARPA to create a robot which can carry Military equipment through harsh weather conditions and terrain.
One word of advice: This is a prototype, so it has flaws, including non-stealthy sound. They claim it can carry up to 100 Kilograms and can run up to 5KM's an hour, though it appears to be reaching 10-15KM's during the test-course scene as the person following it has to run a few times to keep up.
As for the thing itself, enjoy laughing, it looks really funny especially during the slippery ice scene.
That was really funny, but also very impressive. The end where it jumps over the thing on the ground was awesome, and the ice part was pretty darn hilarious. I love when they kick the thing too.
Carrying 340 lbs. too. Figure that is prolly about 2-3 ppl. worth of gear it can handle. Granted that it will most likely be used to either carry extra gear for more extended time in the field before needing to resupply, or to take some of the burden off the ppl. for either longer marches or reduced strain in hostile enviroments (i.e. Desert, Arctic, rain forest)
Few more years and they can make real human like robots like this, getting scary. :P
Isn't helping at all that today on tv comes i,Robot. >.>
Oh don't worry, if robots do take over they'd wipe organic life out via nuclear bombs, even the electronic mind can see the logics and efficiency in wiping out all life instead of just doing search and destroy, besides, it can unlike organic lifeforms, sustain radiation poisoned enviroments ;P
interesting, kinda cumbersome though and not very agile at all, guess it's a start though.
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Oh don't worry, if robots do take over they'd wipe organic life out via nuclear bombs, even the electronic mind can see the logics and efficiency in wiping out all life instead of just doing search and destroy, besides, it can unlike organic lifeforms, sustain radiation poisoned enviroments ;P
can the electronic mind really be better than the human brain though (at least in smart people)? hehe, seeing as we've created it and such and give it it's intelligence. not sure if there is a robot 'brain' out there that can make it's own decisions without being pre-loaded with a bunch of template scenario's and choice patterns that we give it. they can't learn on their own unless they're subjected to new data entry.
i have not seen a robot that you can just drop out in the middle of no where with a clear-memory and have it learn like how a person would learn dropped into the same environment. again, the robot would need to have a pre-loaded memory and then gain updates through electronics and being wired, not actual experiances... i think i'm making sense, maybe not. oh well. :P
like in Terminator 1 where the guy asks Arnold after a battle in the hotel room... "what's that smell?, smells like something died in there"
and i believe the terminator had 3 choice responses and took the best one of 'go F*** yourself'
anyway, neat vid thanks for sharing. ;)
All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
No, but if you'd make statistics based on the easiest way to eliminate all lifeforms it would probably come to that point, plus it was more or less a joke to begin with, i'l be resting eternally long before any Artificial Mind becomes smart enough to actually annihilate its creators, there's always somewhere a crack in the glass, microscopic perhaps, but everything has its fractures :)
