Boston Dynamics' DARPA funded robot. Watch how it regains balance after being kicked and on slippery ice patches. Stunning! Via Gizmodo
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Why are we posting so many videos these days you ask? I don't know!
Anyway this is both cool and somewhat off-putting/frightening but only because it is awesome.
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The vortices created by the wings of an aircraft. Stunning! Even more stunning is this image. [via APOD] You can recreate a bit of this using a bag of flour and a table fan. (Don't tell you spouse/parent/child that I suggested it. And clean up after.)
I'll admit I don't keep up with what's going on in the world of robotics, so I was pretty stunned a couple of months ago when a reader sent us this link to the promo for Boston Dynamics Big Dog robot. It's a longish clip, but this is a pretty amazing beast (I use the word deliberately). As long as…
That's some dog. Amazing. I suppose it's even useful right now with that payload. Lots of situations where you'd care if it's noisy.
Good post.
I'm seeing visions of Sarah Connor Chronicles here. Amazing AI to handle the ice and snow etc. I'm sure a quiet motor and some possible weapons are in the future then we can turn the dogs of war loose in Afgan and Irag... Maybe air drop a few on N. Calif while we are at it. ;-)
Does anybody else feel some uncanny valley from this? Thing kind of creeps me out.
OMG. I almost feel sorry for it when it slips! I can't shake the anthropomorphic impulse here.
It's like a headless dog walking forwards and backwards at the same time-
Creepy and too cool.