O/T The Most Amazing Piece of Engineering I've Seen

Big Dog by Boston Dynamics. Watch it regain its balance when the guy tries to kick it over.

http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

Gas Powered.

 

Fucker walks better than I do!! Needs a muffler, pretty cool.-MIKE

 

Thats cool, but kinda fuckin creepy at the same time......
should be in a sci-fi movie..

 

thats cool!! id just put some antlers on it and call it a day!

 

That is amazing. Not just kind of amazing either. SCARY amazing.

 

damn... thats crazy... i like the ice scene.. i almost fell out of my chair at work laughing so hard... what will they come up with next?

 

I'm gonna need a bigger gun.

 

Isn't that Sarah Conner's dog?

 

Rutt-Roh....I think it has a "brain" !!!

 

Absolutely amazing. Walks better on ice than most people. Put a 50 Caliber gun on that sucker and if anybody heard it comming they would haul ass.LOL

 

It sorta creeps me out,but I gotta give it to the designers-neat deal! N.N.

 

Thats cool...and scary...

 

i saw that the other day and watched the video 3 times in a row with my mouth hanging open. it's incredible the way that thing moves and balances. scary as shit that robotics has gotten that advanced too. did you guys notice the payload that thing was running around with? combined like 600lbs and still moving like that. imagine how much beer that thing could carry around at a car show for you

 

Yeah, but can it lick it's crotch?


Seriously, that is scary as all hell, I'm reminded of all the sci-fi movies that left a lasting impression through the years, ED-209 from RoboCop, the Terminator and a bunch of other shitty b-flicks. I often wonder how accurate they are, I mean just how smart and capable and resilient and "human" do we really want to make a machine? Creepy.

I like old cars.

 

What was up with those slow motion replays with the omimous music playing... Creepy!

 

the way it solves problems as it goes, the way it regains its balance is really scary!! that is some killer engineering for sure i guess a terminator is next in the works. the main question i have is ....why did they build it, who is funding the project(really).

 

We fear what we don't understand or comprehend-sure spooked me for a second or three?!
At first it looks like two guys carrying a payload of paper wasp nests? Haa haa

Imagine that thing coming at you in the woods on a moonlit night?
Bet it couldn't catch me!

Wonder if "dysplasia" of the paired-walking legs could defeat it? Whitetail deer have this problem;their hips do not enable them to control the outward movement of their legs and they sprawl outward.
A bungee cord connection might strengthen that? A flexible outward limiter?

Cool machine.Hope it helps us humans somehow?

 

BigDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics with the goal of creating robots that have rough-terrain mobility that can take them anywhere on Earth that people and animals can go. The program is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).

 

Ditto. I'm starting my day off a little more disturbed...

 

Someone on here wants to paint it flat black with red legs...

 

I think they are writing software to make it hump your leg.

 

That is the coolest! Craziest! Scariest! Most techno-freaky thing I have ever seen! I TOO watched that video with my mouth wide open!!

I come to the HAMB for all my news... including updates in technology.

**shocked**

If I saw that thing coming at me in the woods I wouldn't know rather not to stop and rubber neck or run like hell!

 

That thing scares the shit out of me!

 

scariest thing ive ever seen.

why arnt we investing this time into robotic sex women instead of creepy as sin dog aliens

 

That thing looks crazy.

 

This is a wonderful time to be alive!!!!

 

hey cant you see it on a rake! an duals? ported hicomp head, wait till it becomes obsolete and we can get them from govt. salvage! also for hunting, many peacetime uses! ggg

 

thats freaky , i would shit my pants if that walked up to me in the woods!

 

The ultimate swap meet pack mule.

 

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