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05-07-2008, 08:35 AM
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Who Moved My Cheese?
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Scary but Cool Technology - Robotic Dogs!
One of my employees went to MIT with this kid who now works for a company called Boston Dynamics. They're working on these new intelligent robots that walk like dogs, and that have some amazing abilities... they can maintain balance on multiple types of surfaces, climb/scale hills, run, and jump (3:00 shows some shocking skills).
I can hear the Terminator theme music now... 
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05-07-2008, 09:01 AM
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it looks too much like a giant 4-legged fly. creeps me out.
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05-07-2008, 09:03 AM
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(j/k) (but not really, cause you know that's how it's gonna work...)
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05-07-2008, 10:08 AM
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I can already picture the field report from it's first deployment:
Robot dog complete failure due to large feral cat population. 
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05-07-2008, 11:05 AM
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I like this version better :
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05-07-2008, 11:56 AM
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I've seen that video before. Just wait for the robotic insects if you want to be creeped out. We already have dragonfly-like UAVs.
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05-07-2008, 12:52 PM
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"You can run over an insect and know just from the messages coming through the wheel how many legs it had. Was it a beetle? Was it a spider? Hang on......... spider." Jeremy Clarkson - Top Gear |
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05-07-2008, 03:58 PM
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No, I havn't. I was going by the first frame. That's evidently a take off on the military video where they kick it, trying to knock it over.
Funny stuff.
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05-07-2008, 04:21 PM
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Or these swarming spider bots supposedly ready for field testing in Iraq next year !
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05-07-2008, 04:42 PM
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Yahoo! Got my Rotus!
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lol this is hilarious. When googling the terminator for one of my usual witty one image replies, I accidentally stumbled upon Terminator Kamasutra
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05-08-2008, 06:52 AM
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