Robot Runs For Real

[Loop Stricken]

Nah, it just runs on its toes.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

i.. would have loved if they had shoved it a bit to hard, and it fell over

 

[Nemorov]

Ah... a forum packed with people who think about robot domination the moment they see a video like that. I am not alone.

Otherwise, that's amazing.

 

[lizards]

Looks like the Big Dog ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGWq0k_Mo ) has some competition. Now just upscale it and slap some 105 mm cannons on that bad boy. I'd drive it.

us and japan are going to have a robot war and we will win because ours jumps

 

[Avatar Roku]

I thought ASIMO already could do this?

 

[Guitar Gamer]

heh heh it looked like it was about to deck out the person who shoved it

wouldn't that be scary, you design a robot to run and it beats you up?

 

[crazy-j]

and that day was the beginning of the end......

pretty cool though!

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Well, at least we can still run faster. But I feel sorry for poor ol' Rosie O' Donnelll. She's so fat her name gets an extra letter.

 

[feather240]

It is funny how evolution made humans into bipedal beings which is actually a disadvantage when it comes to running and even balance which explains why emulating a robot to be like us is so hard.

We can see over things this way,like a meer cat.

 

[Fiskmasen]

Looks like the Big Dog ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGWq0k_Mo ) has some competition. Now just upscale it and slap some 105 mm cannons on that bad boy. I'd drive it.

My God! I find this one even more disturbing than the bipedal one (could be because of the DARPA stamp at the end, I'm not sure). The rubble it climbs is just begging to be made of human skulls.

 

[ArchBlade]

Wow. Now all we need to happen is for one to be built that juggles knives.

Then my plans can finally be set into motion...

 

[samsonguy920]

We are all gonna die... i had fifty down on a zombie apocalyspe, I guess I lost...

Don't throw away your bet just yet, some stupid egotistical scientist is still more likely to create a zombie making disease sooner than a robot gets smart enough to want us out of the way.
Nice thing about robots now, you are gonna hear them coming from miles away.

Can we ever have a thread about robots without everyone making jokes about them becoming self-aware?

You are speaking of a website forum that is loaded with nerds. Of course there are going to be self-aware robot jokes. Pfft!

Am I the only one who doesn't find this the least bit cool, but rather disturbing?

It's gonna be a long time before anyone puts artificial intelligent processing power into a robot that size. Might give your grandchildren forewarning though. With the rampant hacking though, I'd be more concerned about human interference causing robots to go homicidal long before robots grow smart enough to hate us. Frankly I got flashbacks of show and tell back in class, and got bored.

 

[iblis666]

As mentioned, this is complicated and difficult to do. This very thing is often what leads me to dislike most animes and other cartoons that involve humanoid robots. The science behind it is not practical and in the future there are certain to be simpler modes of transportation. The only ones that I've accepted are Transformers (because they are in fact their own life form) and Evangelion (because... er... well, watch it if you want to know).

That said, this is highly impressive.

thats the thing half the humanoid robots in anime seem to be really androids that use partly organic systems which in my opinion are a short cut so they dont have to design a mechanical analog. Which as we have seen seems to be a very hard thing to do, though ive heard a few studies that might make it easier to get a walking robot using learning software instead of writing the code themselves though we may not see the robot walk like we do which is a draw back in the design.

btw anyone notice the robot seems to be designed to walk on what on us would be its toes?

 

[Space Spoons]

Pretty cool. That thing really did look human when it moved, which is more than I can say for pretty much all other bipedal, humanoid robots I've seen up until this point.

That said, a robot that can run is also a robot that can chase.

 

[Supraliminal]

Toyota did this? I'd expect Honda if anyone to make a running robot.[/b]

I thought of that too. But when I look it up from the Internets, Toyota has long robot tech history too.

They have a violing playing bot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9sirG0UEGg&feature=fvst
and a trumpet playing bot too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1etIeZFm14&feature=related
Put them together... A robot band . duh uh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_vL9g4IYk&feature=related

Now Honda has the walking bots (Asimo oohhh), but... I don't know which is cooler.

About the video. I love the fact that they had to show it on high speed just to prove it's running.

 

[Pm0n3y]

Looks like the Big Dog ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGWq0k_Mo ) has some competition. Now just upscale it and slap some 105 mm cannons on that bad boy. I'd drive it.

that thing looks like it came straight out of MGS4

 

[Jamous]

...That is completely awesome. And completely fucking terrifying. I'm guessing they'll get us by the end of the century. If not then 2150.

 

[Jamous]

Put them together... A robot band . duh uh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_vL9g4IYk&feature=related

That tubs looks awfully conspicuous... They've got weapons! Run for your lives!
Srsly now though, that was awesome.
EDIT: Awwww Piss. Double Posted.

 

[dalek sec]

I think I found Japan's next robotic creation:

Spoiler

Yeah I know I'm doing a lot of battlestar jokes but that's because Daleks aren't robots, same thing with cybermen.

 

[not a zaar]

It looks like that robot can ONLY run. Look at the way it's designed and how it moves. I bet it can't walk or really do anything else. The self-balancing is very impressive though.