Big Dog beta

[plasticman]

Ha, since I can post anything here...

 

Most of you already know about the Boston Dynamics Big Dog and have seen

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Now look at this "

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[Mortem Desino]

Cool stuff. I got a lot of respect for any robot builders . I helped start my high school's robotics team.

 

It is damn hard to find enough people with the right skills just to plan, draft, manufacture, assemble, troubleshoot, and pilot/program-automate a simple two-wheel-driven bot. I can't conceive how difficult this was.

[Midnight]

Cool stuff. I got a lot of respect for any robot builders . I helped start my high school's robotics team.

 

It is damn hard to find enough people with the right skills just to plan, draft, manufacture, assemble, troubleshoot, and pilot/program-automate a simple two-wheel-driven bot. I can't conceive how difficult this was.

 

Umm... Which video were you replying to? The second one had me fooled for about half the video. Anyway, I hate people who hurt animals, but damn do I want to kick a Big Dog (or two idiots pretending to be a Big Dog )!

[Komag]

Wow, that is extremely impressive to me, it really has a "lifelike" look and feel, and is just plain FREAKY (but in a good way!)

[Bikerdude]

Robot fish

Awesome robot dancing

 

 

Edited July 7, 2010 by Bikerdude

[Bikerdude]

Some more mr roboto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey3iNQ1zADg

[Diego]

WOW! That's the best walking robot I've seen! Waaay better than that 'asimo something', that looks like it's gonna fall on the next step..

[Fidcal]

Awesome, eye-grabbing dance movements. Those guys are incredible. Wish I had unlimited bandwidth because there is better video on the net than on TV these days.

 

The robot fish is near perfect and I'm not sure it is distinguishable from a real fish to the average person. Wonder if there is a Turing test for robots? That is, when you cannot tell a robot from the real thing. Long way to go with humanoid types but that fish must be close. Wonderful.

 

I just love illusion and read recently (maybe on physorg) of a robot stickleback that was placed in a shoal of real sticklebacks which generally accepted it. I think they were researching fish behaviour and using this as a tool to influence the other fish.

[Fidcal]

hehe - these are worth watching again....