[Mihai]

http://www.devilducky.com/media/42797/

A nimble, four-legged, Cronenbergesque robot is so surefooted it can recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick.

The machine, which moves like a cross between a goat and a pantomime horse, is being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US military.

I'd get one of those to do my shopping.....imagine a supermarket full of them...

[ricardo]

At least it won't kick you back. By now.

[jc4d]

At least it won't kick you back. By now.

LOL

But man this is soooooo creepy and the hell noise, i can't sleep tonight

[Maximus3D]

Seen it before but it still kicks butt, great robotic technology in progress there

Here are some more..

http://transit-port.net/Lists/Robotics.in.Japan.html
http://web-japan.org/trends/ev/robot.html
http://robotics.aist-nara.ac.jp/jrobres/index-e.html
http://www.androidworld.com/index.htm
http://www.tmsuk.co.jp/english/robots.html
http://www.hitecrobotics.com/
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/top_nf.html
http://www.robots-dreams.com/

Sorry about all the links but i had quite a few good ones bookmarked

/ Max

[misterasset]

I don't usually post but man that is just creepy. I remember them doing studies about how people don't want robots that look just like humans and I thought that was pretty dumb, but I guess I agree now to a certain extent. If the robot looks like two pairs of disembodied legs carying a crate between them, then yeah, we definately don't want that.

On the other hand, kudos on the balance. Amazing.

[JDHill]

...being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US military.

...apparently this is much more cost-effective than an actual mule...but...



...why does it look like conjoined Napoleons?


~JD

[cyberjuls]

http://www.devilducky.com/media/2536/

This one is a best of. Nothing to do with the robot, but founded on the same site. This is starwars geeks bashing video.

PS: mike don't look it !!!

[-Adrian]

That robot in the first clip creaps me out, it's not what the term 'uncanny valley' describes i think but the resemblence to something we know is the plain cause of the deterrent effect on us, an odd phenomena.

[x_site]

cool links... thanks guys

[Eric Lagman]

I am going to have nightmares after that first clip. It looked like two peoples legs facing each other with an engine connecting them. Looks like something you would see in a Doom videogame. It just needed some machine guns mounted to the side and a brain in a glass jar in the middle.

[Thomas An.]

Do you guys realize how insanely difficult it is to build reflexes into robotic devices ?

It is amazing that this device can actually recover its balance from a random push (or other environmental conditions).

[markps]

These days.. after OPEN PINO.... oh my.

I think when I first saw asimo 3 years ago on a demonstration and they've said it came after 30 years of research... It was quite impressive but on the last 3 years so many robots surfaced....

After the the miniaturization of the gyroscopes there is no holding back...

I think in a few years.. the androids will be here.

This robot for example.. it is SO simple... just a buch of servos and nothing more!...

http://www.robotshop.ca/home/on-sale/ko ... t-kit.html

This one is one of the best for me... ) Only $1.500!! very cool.

[markps]

How can you beat that... It looks like that teddy bear from the movie AI...

http://www.robotshop.ca/video/rbisx01_acrobate.wmv

[ivox3]

Do you guys realize how insanely difficult it is to build reflexes into robotic devices ?

It is amazing that this device can actually recover its balance from a random push (or other environmental conditions).

Yeah, .....that was definitely the amazing part. Not sure how they implemented that ........but still Thomas, ......that just made it all the more creepy.


Cyberjuls: man, .....just watched the Triumph video .....super funny, ....thanks for that.

[Mihai]

Why would the reactive balance be the most difficult part? Just would like to know....because I was thinking giros with sensors and the legs are then programmed to adjust based on that info.