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| Thread ID: 88243 | 2008-03-20 14:48:00 | Big Dog | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 651095 | 2008-03-21 11:51:00 | Number 5 is alive! Well, maybe not, but very clever/creepy. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 651096 | 2008-03-21 13:07:00 | Skynet. | sal (67) | ||
| 651097 | 2008-03-21 14:56:00 | I dislike the look of having what appears to be a front set of legs facing one way and the rear set facing rearward . It makes it look like two people are in it facing in opposite directions . When my wife saw it the first time, she curled her lip and declared it "freaky and gross" . . . my first impression was it was too human/machine combination-al to look like a robot should . I think it's the legs that spook ya . . According to a friend who worked at Disney-Robotics, he says it follows a radio "pulse" from a GI who would normally be walking ahead of it and it would follow carrying the packs and logistics for him and three other GIs . It's a pack-mule device . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 651098 | 2008-03-21 16:03:00 | Do you know how much it cost 'em to research/make? I wouldn't mind one... :p | wratterus (105) | ||
| 651099 | 2008-03-21 20:08:00 | I dislike the look of having what appears to be a front set of legs facing one way and the rear set facing rearward . It makes it look like two people are in it facing in opposite directions . Completely agree - especially when it was walking up the hill . Have a look at the response to slipping - the way the leg on the lowest side pushes out and bends at the lowest joint - it would be much harder to recover from a slip if the legs were facing, what we would consider to be, the correct way . |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 651100 | 2008-03-23 12:11:00 | Interesting response to slipping - notice it is programmed for the lowest leg to go outwards and bend at the 'knee' joint. I reckon it is pre-programmed for various terrain - notice the 1 leg at a time approach to walking over the breeze block versus the marching uphill or the stomping action in the snow - so someone somewhere is helping it with terrain selection / walking mode. Maybe not remote controlled but it is certainly getting some help. I couldn't help but laugh when it slipped and slipped again as it over-corrected - notice how it was not oriented 90 degrees to it's original direction after slipping - is it smart enough to know that? P.S. Nothing that a noose can't stop if you tied two legs together. it could easily have both gyros/accelerometers and tilt sensors to tell what way it's pointing/leaning. a bit more advanced here, but it could also detect obstacles in it's path by sonar, radar, or optical means, and adjust it's walking patterns appropriately. if not already, given a gps and a bit of code it could find it's way from a to b no sweat I dislike the look of having what appears to be a front set of legs facing one way and the rear set facing rearward. It makes it look like two people are in it facing in opposite directions. or, it looks just like the leg structure of most (if not all) quadrupedal animals. also the same structure of a human walking on all fours even a bird using wingtips as the front feet would be using the same sets of joints and muscles. either the creator wasn't very imaginative, or theory of evolution is onto something. either way it's good to see roboticists are looking at natural solutions to problems |
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