BDI just released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait.
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holy shit.
id crap myself if i saw that thing walking down the street
id crap myself if i saw that thing walking down the street
If that thing was walking towards me in a dark alley id run for my life
I gotta go find a Roomba to beat up now.
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Holy shit that is fucking awesome. Especially when the dude kicked it and it recoiled like a living thing. It has some amazing balance programming!
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Call in snowspeeders and harpoons!
But seriously, thats incredible!
But seriously, thats incredible!
Fucking hell!! I lol'd and wow'd.
It looked drunk on the ice and like a person learning to walk on the breezeblocks.
It looked drunk on the ice and like a person learning to walk on the breezeblocks.
It moves almost like a living thing sometimes. really creepy and really awesome.
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That is fucking awesome.
haha its retarded
its for the military, so, no i dont think soKurazoo wrote:
haha its retarded
so wtf does it do again?
no uKurazoo wrote:
haha its retarded
Have you not watched star wars? ...ig wrote:
so wtf does it do again?
2142 anyone?
i thought it looked like a walker at the start
i thought it looked like a walker at the start
I thought it performed better than a walkerelite3444 wrote:
2142 anyone?
i thought it looked like a walker at the start
That is just flat out creepy... and I can't for the life of me think why!
Machine acting like animal, it's always creepy, soon as a robot shows some sort of sign of acting like a living thing it's just a bit off putting.Braddock wrote:
That is just flat out creepy... and I can't for the life of me think why!
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Clearly its a metal gearGawwad wrote:
Have you not watched star wars? ...ig wrote:
so wtf does it do again?
In that vid? Carry over 300lbs over rough terrain.ig wrote:
so wtf does it do again?
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The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth
BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.
BigDog has an on-board computer that controls locomotion, servos the legs and handles a wide variety of sensors. BigDog’s control system manages the dynamics of its behavior to keep it balanced, steer, navigate, and regulate energetics as conditions vary. Sensors for locomotion include joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a laser gyroscope, and a stereo vision system. Other sensors focus on the internal state of BigDog, monitoring the hydraulic pressure, oil temperature, engine temperature, rpm, battery charge and others.
So far, BigDog has trotted at 3.3 mph, climbed a 35 degree slope and carried a 120 lb load.
BigDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics with help from Foster Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.Development is funded by the DARPA Defense Sciences Office.
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/s … ion=BigDog
BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.
BigDog has an on-board computer that controls locomotion, servos the legs and handles a wide variety of sensors. BigDog’s control system manages the dynamics of its behavior to keep it balanced, steer, navigate, and regulate energetics as conditions vary. Sensors for locomotion include joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a laser gyroscope, and a stereo vision system. Other sensors focus on the internal state of BigDog, monitoring the hydraulic pressure, oil temperature, engine temperature, rpm, battery charge and others.
So far, BigDog has trotted at 3.3 mph, climbed a 35 degree slope and carried a 120 lb load.
BigDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics with help from Foster Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.Development is funded by the DARPA Defense Sciences Office.
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/s … ion=BigDog
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They work with the Military.TheEternalPessimist wrote:
so wtf does it do again?
lol.. I saw this reading a blog about it today.
Fluid yet moronic three-foot-tall robot stutter-stepping while some hippie kicks it in the ass? Not that awesome. 200-foot-version featuring Marines rappelling down from an opening in its belly? Awesome. Dare to dream, my friends.
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Heh. That would be awesome. Spirit of 1776 on March 17, 2008 at 6:15 PM
… Not if there would be some small two man aircraft flying circles around the legs with a grappling line attached to one leg first …
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Ya, so what is that weird noise, just mechanical parts moving about? Sounds like it would be an easy target that draws a lot of attention...
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I bet that things like this are going to be used for search and rescue operations. As the technology presents itself now it doesn't seem feasible. A few bursts from and AK-47 or a shot from an RPG would probably take it out.