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- voodoochild461, on 09/05/2008, -1/+80"It's not often the online community takes an interest in the latest intellectual mechanical developments"
She clearly has no idea what she's talking about. - solidcube, on 09/05/2008, -1/+42Apparently the robots are more advanced than the video playback software at The Telegraph. They really needed to do a screen cap of Youtube?
- MorphicMusic, on 09/05/2008, -3/+41My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer.
- coudboule, on 09/05/2008, -1/+32An early prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
- flegory, on 09/05/2008, -6/+35That is very frightening.
- phuzzy3d, on 09/05/2008, -1/+25Video of this bot has been around for some time, unlike the 6 months as said in the clip by the commentator.
It's a cool bot. It has always given me the creeps. - PunkyFeople, on 09/05/2008, -1/+21Although this is really ***** cool, wouldn't it be easier to just use an actual living mule or horse, etc.
- Thuktun, on 09/05/2008, -0/+17I was thinking Dog from HL2.
- Richandler, on 09/05/2008, -4/+21Wow that thing is looking, well, metal gearish.
- imasuperDOTcom, on 09/05/2008, -3/+18๏̯͡๏﴿ I AM ROBOCOP
- dse78759, on 09/05/2008, -2/+16Fembot, or I don't care.
- jsmithers, on 09/05/2008, -1/+15ORIGINAL: http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quad ...
IF YOU WANT TO PISS YOURSELF LAUGHING (SPOOF): http://gizmodo.com/372272/video-of-bigdog-beta-qua ... - VitriolAndAngst, on 09/05/2008, -0/+13They are probably a lot further ahead than this dog-bot by now.
1) This is a declassified video.
2) It is six years old.
We saw the Black-bird super-sonic airplane about 20 years after it was state-of-the-art and everyone knew about it.
I'm guessing that either, they just want to show off for the military -- meaning that the dog-bot was state of the art, or more likely, they have a robot about 26 years more advanced than this.
However, not sure if DARPA is as secretive as the Skunk Works. - PhilMoskowitz, on 09/05/2008, -0/+13As long as it's worth 1 billion dollars and can be defeated by a garden hoe, I'm all for it.
- orlyfactor, on 09/05/2008, -0/+12Just as long as they don't call it ED-209, I'm cool with it.
You have 10 seconds to comply... - vilago, on 09/05/2008, -0/+12cue austrian accent
- JohnDBandit, on 09/05/2008, -0/+12Wouldn't horses or mules be cheaper?
... just saying - dse78759, on 09/05/2008, -0/+11Awesome-o?
- groo68, on 09/05/2008, -3/+14so they haven't made a more advanced robot in years?
- deenoop, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8gives me chills to see that. just weird to see an autonomous machine with no torso or head or anything. Like something out of Pans Labyrinth.
- xtothepowerofx, on 09/05/2008, -1/+9defence contractor: "that'll be one trillion dollars please"
government: "oh.. that seems like a lot"
defence contractor: "yeah, but did you see it breakdance?.. and walk up a hill too slowly to be of any use?"
government: "i'll take 5 hundred"
defence contractor: "oh by the way they take about 100 hrs of maintenance for every hour of operation... that cool?.. and you're really not gonna want to get sand or water or air anywhere these things..."
government: "i'll take a thousand!!!!" - pathouston22, on 09/05/2008, -5/+13Yay I can kick my dog without it biting me!!! I love kicking dogs.
- Number23, on 09/05/2008, -1/+9It's meant to carry supplies for troops in all terrain. Armor would only reduce the amount stuff it could carry.
- lennybird, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8Does this thing vaguely remind anyone else as the hunters in Half-Life Ep. 2?
- ThatEvilGuy, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8I love America's constant drive to create new cooler killing machines.
That big dog even sounds menacing, can you imagine being in the middle of the battle and you start hearing that noise, you know something bad is coming your way.... - seniorgrossy, on 09/05/2008, -3/+10dunno man, i still think this one is more advanced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKAeihiy5Ck - even if it sucks in combat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqtsR-2Ph94 ... it's been on the consumer market for almost ten years - at least put a friggin laser on the army robot or something...
- jsmithers, on 09/05/2008, -1/+8ORIGINAL: http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quad ...
IF YOU WANT TO PISS YOURSELF LAUGHING (SPOOF): http://gizmodo.com/372272/video-of-bigdog-beta-qua ... - Forky, on 09/05/2008, -0/+7That's brilliant.
- Cloud7659, on 09/05/2008, -0/+7That's just the mount for:
http://img.metblogs.com/chicago/files/2008/04/term ... - webcrumb, on 09/05/2008, -0/+7You want to have sex with a robot dog?
- laserdog, on 09/05/2008, -2/+9"They hate us for our sex robots." President Snoop Dogg 2032
- jorisb, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6Maybe it's a stepping stone to more advanced robots..
Soon you'll see Honda's ASIMO riding Big Dog into battle. - PhilMoskowitz, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Not when you can make something for 200,000x the price and make the government pay for it. It's the Broken Window Fallacy writ on a grand scale.
- donkz, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5How about an aimbot?
- kollunz, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5but will it blend....
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5I think with this kind of technology, we will have the dog you speak of in our back yard in the not so distant future.
With all honesty, when I was watching the vid, I thought I was viewing a promo for an upcoming video game. - sstidman, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5If they put 4 more legs on that thing it would look like a large, creepy, robotic spider that they could use to scare the ***** out of the enemy. Put a hundred of those on a battlefield and the war would be over in a 5 minutes.
- ASSASSYN360, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5The first piece of Voltron! Soon all the robots will combine to form VOLTRON defender of the universe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uS5b8aQ6z8 - Phearce, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Or camels, which have been used successfully for thousands of years. But no, we insist on trying to use high-tech to solve low-tech problems.
- johnmalc, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4So it begins...
- chrisinsocalif, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4Can you imagine driving up to a club on the back of that thing? I am not sure if chics would dig me but it would be damn fun!
- defaultdigger, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4It pooped a video!!
- S5S5S5, on 09/05/2008, -4/+8Bad idea. It's just gonna freak out the locals. Imagine an Iraqi farmer seeing a US soldier with a mule without a head following him.
- lungripper64, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4i have two words "star wars"
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4If I could digg your second vid again I would. You made my day :) Thank you.
- CosmicJustice, on 09/05/2008, -1/+5Why? Do you have some kind of warped world view where Iraqi farmers are f'ing morons?
- datastorageguy, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4Way to inject politics into a story about a robot.
- kwaNgqengelele, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4Buried for lack of comprehensibility.
- NJank, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3they might as well post the leaked photos of the more advanced version.
http://www.nirahlee.com/iswwr/index.php?option=com ...
scary stuff. - inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3It is crysis dude
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