Holy Fucking 4 Legged Super Robot Batman!
 

This thing is just sick...4 legged robot w/ a 340lb payload capacity with the reflexes of a cat...

http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-...ing-its-spooky

I'm sorry, but did anyone else just laugh all the way through that? :rofl: It's like a headless mountain goat powered by kazoos.

yeah thats not real, honda can't even make sumthing that could be knocked around like that, much less have a sense of balance, why do you think robots have such big feet? if it were real and i came across that in the woods though, i'd be running the other way :ugh:

Well, you'd hear it like four friggin' miles away!

"Who the hell is using a weed-whacker out in the woods?"

DARPA, first sparking the internet. Now this creepy robot thing. Nice.

this is fucking creepy... im pretty wasted and that shit will give me some 4-legged nightmares for shizzle...

I want to sell everything I own and buy one of those to carry me and the GF around.

I want one of those AS my GF!

I'm STILL laughing at that! Had to watch the video like five times its THAT funny to me... after working 19 hours... wow. :bowrofl:

If I saw that thing running through the woods I'd prolly shit myself. Funded by DARPA it likely has a sniper rifle attached to it already. Looks very comical when the guy kicked at it..

Oh, and just because Honda can't do something doesn't make it impossible.. :rolleyes:

+1

I dont know shit about this, but when it comes to robots im sure 4 leggs is MUCH easier to work with than two. Think about how hard it would be to just get a two legged robot not to fall over

Pretty damn awesome. Can't wait to see one of those things run.

Haha, have you seen the videos of Asimo falling over on youtube?

The buzzer is required when the robot is operating autonomously for "safety"

Mark

oh my god

crazy insane. The smaller RHex robot video is cool too.

i'm just saying if a company like honda with billions to spend can't create a robot that can be kicked around and still stand i doubt they can. And it just looks fake how the legs move so fast there is a bubble of blur around them :dunno:

Alright mazda whatever you say.

FTFY ;)

Whoever invented that needs his ass kicked.



//They took our jarbs!!

Honda isn't funded by the US Dept. of Defense...

And they are making a bi-pedal robot...not a pack mule.

looks like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nSumoMatch.jpg

and lets not forget:

Damn ^^^^ thats a terribly long wait for a beer.. reminds me of a bar in DC.

you'd think it could at least wipe the head off of the beer if it is going to make facial expressions while pouring it. But i guess it will keep you from getting too hammered because it could put a substantial dent on your intake with those pouring times

she has sexy fingers hrrmmmmhrrmmmhrm

to OP, that thing does look creepy, maybe the next suicide bomber? we finaly have an answer for the terrorists, lol

Oh great... now I have to clean up the mess that little shit just made. Way to Fail!

for those interested in updates, they've upgraded software and mechanics to make it even more human-like

rob, is that you?

I didn't mean to kick it that hard :giggle:

:bowrofl::bowrofl:

The real deal is awesomely creepy...

The spoof made me laugh like crazy. That was some funny shit! :bowrofl:

Vash-

LOL... that was hilarious!

Just coming across this for the first time, but that creature is freakishly scary. If I were the dude in the parking lot, I'd probably have some eerie pictures going through my head as I kicked a 230 lb robot with catlike reflexes.

Honestly, imagine a herd of those things (with quieter power packs) cresting a hill in the distance and headed in your direction, bearing the flag of a foreign "peacekeeping" nation. That's what it's gonna be like to be the "other guys. "

"Paging Drs. Brewster and Dyson. Dr. Robert Brewster and Dr. Myles Dyson, please report to the scary room."

Here is a bipedal that balances on its own. The support around it is in case it falls, but doesn't support it when it walks. Balancing is all handled by the robot. I have to say, it is definitely not as freaky as the 4 legged one.



It is being developed by a private company, Anybots (http://anybots.com/). The guy that started the company built his own Segway which I think is pretty cool. Smart guy.

that first one, from the op, is crazy,
i cant even imagine war in the future,
we have this dog thing,
imagine what china has, or japan
they must have like effin terminators

The biped sounds like jumping on a trampoline with squeaky springs.
It seems more like a robot than the quadped.

I think the biped has some shit on his shoes

bahah

on his chuck taylors

cruck trayyors

Don't forget the Three Laws of Robotics....

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Yeah right... :hustler:

I'm gonna go out on a limb here.. I think it'd be safe to say DARPA's budget is likely in the hundred billion dollar range...


You seriously just made my day. I have not laughed that fucking hard in MONTHS!

WTF is going through the mind of the lady walking her dog!?!? :bowrofl:

Doesn't appear to have been made by Honda (though Honda has built robots which can climb stairs and run, standing upright too!), have you not seen the things DARPA (and people with access to DARPA's checkbook) can do? It's so easy to say it's "not real" and just dismiss it. How do you think they faked it then, hmmm?

people at our tradeshows (we have a 50,000 dollar VR display) come to us with "will you develop x?" questions and when we say it's impossible, they say "what if we had 'DARPA money'?"

so what if we were richer than god?

Then, and only then, you'd be as rich as DARPA.