http://gizmodo.com/the-pentagons-super-fast-robot-is-now-completely-wirel-1441049929/1441085189



Video of each robot in respective link.

Original BigDog:
http://gizmodo.com/279622/robotic-pack-mule-is-more-pantomime-horse-than-bigdog

Remember BigDog that was posted here? It was the 2nd version of the one above:
message_topic.aspx?topic=518863
http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-spooky

Then the same company made the Cheetah, also posted on TWW but can't find it:
http://gizmodo.com/5940799/military-robot-cheetah-is-faster-than-usain-bolt++and-freaks-the-hell-out-of-me

Cheetah reached a top speed of 28 mph on a treadmill (but didn't takeoff), but was tethered and couldn't run freely.

Well, now we have WildCat, which is the free running version of Cheetah, and because it is bigger and heavier, can only manage 16 mph, still fast enough to run down most people.

http://gizmodo.com/the-pentagons-super-fast-robot-is-now-completely-wirel-1441049929/1441085189

Looks pretty scary when it stands up at 0:11 and then suddenly at 0:17 it makes you lol.

Quote :

"Watch this video. In a few years—when humans are being hunted down in some war by completely autonomous quadruped robotic beasts that can run faster than the fastest human on Earth—you will remember the day when you watched the video. The day it all started. I'm not talking about some Terminator scenario, a dystopian future in which machines kill humanity. I'm just talking about a regular war. Have no doubt. While the work that Boston Dynamics is doing for the Pentagon's advanced research arm—DARPA—may be used for good, it will for sure be used for bad. This is one of those moments in history that will be shown in documentaries about how the robot armies started, 40 years from now."

Considering the gif below, it seems like they must be working on making the turning radius smaller.



[Edited on October 7, 2013 at 7:13 PM. Reason : ]

10/7/2013 6:46:40 PM

Can you have sex with it?

10/7/2013 6:48:21 PM

I don't know... send an email to

AreYourRobotsSexable@darpa.mil

10/7/2013 6:53:24 PM

oh yeah

she squats

10/7/2013 7:03:30 PM

Believe it or not, I had a small part in the initial prototyping of this system. There is a switch on the bottom that goes between two modes: pack mule and nard kicking bad guy hunter

10/7/2013 7:52:02 PM

Nothing to worry about. We can always scorch the sky if things get out of control. They'll be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.

10/7/2013 9:15:55 PM

totally reminds me of

10/7/2013 9:18:19 PM

^

+ houndeye

10/8/2013 9:40:45 AM

http://youtu.be/M8YjvHYbZ9w

Also... Computers best humans on image recognition for the first time.

http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1502.01852

2/9/2015 6:02:41 PM

Doesn't affect me so I don't care

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

2/9/2015 6:15:18 PM

Yep, here's your problem. Someone set this thing to evil.

2/9/2015 6:21:00 PM

this thread and those like it

is why I am on TWW




[Edited on February 9, 2015 at 8:57 PM. Reason : ]

2/9/2015 8:33:54 PM

2/9/2015 9:21:46 PM