Robot Dog

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 21 Mar 2008 19:42

Though Boston Dynamics has released videos of this fella before, this is the newest video clip and well worth a look for those who might not have seen it before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU

It's cool, noisy and kinda creepy

Post by **Freakzilla** » 21 Mar 2008 19:58

It's ability to recover from that guy kicking it and slipping on ice are impressive.

Post by **Omphalos** » 21 Mar 2008 20:34

HA! I love that stuff! Eat it, Asimo, you useless cereal box toy!

And Im glad to see that DARPA is still doing stuff like this.

orald · Post by **orald** » 22 Mar 2008 05:51

Blasphemy! Thou shall not make machines in the image of a fluffy dog!

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 22 Mar 2008 10:12

orald · Post by **orald** » 22 Mar 2008 10:34

Pffft, Terminators aren't tough or scary. If you want a really scary AI that'll make you shit down your pants just look at Omph's avatar.

Now that's some crazy mother-frakking AI over there.

Rakis · Post by **Rakis** » 25 Mar 2008 22:05

GamePlayer wrote:Though Boston Dynamics has released videos of this fella before, this is the newest video clip and well worth a look for those who might not have seen it before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU

It's cool, noisy and kinda creepy

Creepy indeed...as if they cut the dog in half on the horizontal (pukin smiley,damit!) and put some robotics on top...i don't know why, but this makes me think of the movie The Cell with Jello, when they split the horse in many pieces...

kewl...

orald · Post by **orald** » 26 Mar 2008 07:40

A friend of mine who's an army medic has a picture of a severed dog head from an autopsy(sp?) they made in training.
He put it on some lame social-network among his profile pictures...then he wonders why he ain't finding any chicks there.

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 26 Mar 2008 09:36

Rakis wrote:Creepy indeed...as if they cut the dog in half on the horizontal (pukin smiley,damit!) and put some robotics on top...i don't know why, but this makes me think of the movie The Cell with Jello, when they split the horse in many pieces... kewl...

Yeah, more smileys

It is kinda strange and morbid looking, I'll grant you that. It's like natural movement, but not quite. An attack of the "Uncanny Valley" so they say.

Rakis · Post by **Rakis** » 26 Mar 2008 22:59

GamePlayer wrote:
Rakis wrote:Creepy indeed...as if they cut the dog in half on the horizontal (pukin smiley,damit!) and put some robotics on top...i don't know why, but this makes me think of the movie The Cell with Jello, when they split the horse in many pieces... kewl...
Yeah, more smileys

It is kinda strange and morbid looking, I'll grant you that. It's like natural movement, but not quite. An attack of the "Uncanny Valley" so they say.

Well, on the up side, it's not a cat getting milked for an antidote...

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 26 Mar 2008 23:24

Oh, the cat milking robot is on it's way

Rakis · Post by **Rakis** » 26 Mar 2008 23:29

GamePlayer wrote:Oh, the cat milking robot is on it's way

No ! no! (Crawls into foetal position)

Post by **Freakzilla** » 27 Mar 2008 10:13

orald wrote:A friend of mine who's an army medic has a picture of a severed dog head from an autopsy(sp?) they made in training.
He put it on some lame social-network among his profile pictures...then he wonders why he ain't finding any chicks there.

When reading this I was reminded of the "split dog" in Return of the Living Dead II.

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