This is pretty amazing

[55palfers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

...and slighty worrying too perhaps.

Imagine an army of these.

[shirt]

impressive, but surely just an EMP blast away from having the entire army rendered useless.

[alock]

Is it wrong that I was rooting for the robot and at 1:50 wanted it to punch the guy in the face?

[james7]

alock said:

Is it wrong that I was rooting for the robot and at 1:50 wanted it to punch the guy in the face?

Me too
It would have added a bit of personality to it

[rodericb]

Holy moly. It can't be too long before that, or one of those mule things, has some sort of gun bolted to it.

shirt said:

impressive, but surely just an EMP blast away from having the entire army rendered useless.

EMP harden it.

[likesachange]

Yes i too felt sorry for the robot..

i really need to give myself a shake

[Stig]

Very impressive - but remove the AR tags from the walls and it would be instantly lost

[Phil74]

I've seen videos of a few of the Boston Dynamics robotics projects and it is amazing to see what is possible. Their website has info about the ones that they are happy for the public to know about.

I'm not very well informed but, as far as I can make out, Boston Dynamics are a subsidiary of Google Inc. and a majority of their projects are funded by DARPA, who are a U.S. Department of Defense agency.

How long do we think we are away from Robocop being a reality

Very clever though

[randlemarcus]

I seem to recall reading that BD would no longer be taking DARPA money, which is probably part of the "do no evil" thing at Google. Hmmm...

[cmsapms]

It walks like it's touching cloth!

[gr1340]

Wait until one robot watches his mate being pushed over in a test and sticks up for him.
I watched a video of the little Alpha 2 humanoid robot. A bit scary tbh, a bit like i-robot coming true.

I suppose it is inevitable that we will be enslaved by our electronic creations eventually.

All hail the robots!!

p.s. please don't turn me into a power source. I'll oil up the robots on the production lines for you.

[J4CKO]

cmsapms said:

It walks like it's touching cloth!

I thought that as well.

This version of the Bigdog is a lot more advanced now,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc

[Bebee]

Yea what ever, can it play guitar like Hendrix?


I'll worry when a robot starts building another robot then that robot builds another.............................

[GroundEffect]

Their Mule 'Big Dog' failed to get a military contract recently due to the noise it's generator made. If this thing is quiet, it could work.

[joe_90]

The biggest problem is that you don't need it to look human, there are more efficient designs for what they are trying to achieve, however I guess that will not get the funding/attention.

Also, as a programmer, I can see it constantly calibrating, which is interesting, as its effectively restarting each time he moves the box rather than doing it as one event.

[Neil H]

I'd be happy with one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNi4ZraX0Bk

[motco]

Simblade said:

WOW!

Just needs a pop up shoulder mounted laser cannon to take out people with hockey sticks.

What if you went for it with a POINTED stick! Or, a banana...

[HD Adam]

Brilliant & scary at the same time.

I almost wanted him to grab the stick from the bloke and tt him back but of course, you would never want that in reality.

One thing I did like was how they'd modeled his walk at the beginning on me coming home from the pub

[motco]

Simblade said:

motco said:

What if you went for it with a POINTED stick! Or, a banana...

They gotta have something to sell you for the 'S' version next year.

[Tycho]

Neil H said:

I'd be happy with one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNi4ZraX0Bk

that is awesome!