Groundbreaking New Locomotive Robots Are All Your Worst Movie Nightmares
By Lindsay CutlerMay 24th, 2010, 1:35 pmComments (4)This reminds me of a few things:
1. The head of the Predator monster
2. The head of the Aliens monster
3. Both of which remind me of this head monster (1:38)
4. Shrimp
5. The dead husk of a Furby doll.
Yes, the LittleDog locomotive robot is a wonderful development in science, robotics and spider-monster technology. But seriously, scientists - tape some googly eyes to it for the rest of us.
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1.) This is amazing.
2.) It reminds me of some of the creatures in Half-Life.
3.) Someday we're going to be riding on these things backs, like they're horses.
Strap a vibrating dildo on it and we've got a product!
Boston Dynamics' "Big Dog" has been around for a while and in addition to being about 4 feet tall has the added creepiness of a whiny gas motor. Supposedly these things are going to be used as mechanical pack mules to help schlep combat gear, but I think the real plan is to just let them wander around and creep out the enemy so they go away.
What I like about the *Dog robots is that the developers are not reinventing the wheel -- nature developed a pretty sound locomotive system. Even better, though, is watching people react to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM About 35 seconds in, they try to disrupt the Big Dog locomotion, and people's emotional, kneejerk reactions are priceless.
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