Via David Appell:
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#1 Andy Deans 2008/03/20
That is one of the creepiest vids I’ve ever seen. I can’t explain why…it just gives me the willies. Cool technology though!
[It scares me when I think of them being used for crowd control, say. Or worse -W]
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#3 Brian D 2008/03/20
The balance and posture recovery is particularly impressive.
Mind you, looking at this robot’s main website, it appears to be heavily top-down designed, which I find inherently less interesting than behaviour-based robotics, but I’m probably jaded by now, and that doesn’t make their accomplishment any less impressive.
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#4 JamesG 2008/03/21
It’d be really good to carry the disabled around. Cyborgs at last.
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#5 P. Lewis 2008/03/25
Impressive … but I’d like to see how it recovers from a force that lifts it and deposits it on its back.
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#6 Nereo Preto 2008/03/29
Those guys should produce a dinosaur and use it to simulate footprints. It would be really great to study ichnology. But I am quite sure they are planning much less exhiting things, such as killing enemies in remote controlled night blitzs or so… military people have no fantasy at all.
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#7 WhiteBeard 2008/03/29
Will beastie 2.XX have doubled appendages and be called the Big Arachnid?
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#8 Adam 2008/03/29
Mountaineers could use it to bring a G&T up from Everest base camp.
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The behavior of the beta version is rather more amusing…
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Oops, looks like I botched the HTML again. Meant to link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc