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Weird tech
Category: misc
Posted on: March 20, 2008 3:42 PM, by William M. Connolley
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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]
Posted by: Andy Deans | March 20, 2008 4:13 PM
Wow. Very cool. I want one.
Posted by: IanR | March 20, 2008 4:39 PM
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.
Posted by: Brian D | March 20, 2008 8:34 PM
It'd be really good to carry the disabled around. Cyborgs at last.
Posted by: JamesG | March 21, 2008 12:50 PM
Impressive ... but I'd like to see how it recovers from a force that lifts it and deposits it on its back.
Posted by: P. Lewis | March 25, 2008 6:53 AM
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.
Posted by: Nereo Preto | March 29, 2008 4:38 AM
Will beastie 2.XX have doubled appendages and be called the Big Arachnid?
Posted by: WhiteBeard | March 29, 2008 12:29 PM
Mountaineers could use it to bring a G&T up from Everest base camp.
Posted by: Adam | March 29, 2008 4:45 PM
The behavior of the beta version is rather more amusing...
Posted by: Alioth | March 31, 2008 1:05 AM
Oops, looks like I botched the HTML again. Meant to link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
Posted by: Alioth | March 31, 2008 1:07 AM