Hey, Wanna hear the most annoying robot in the world?

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:08 am

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

*boing*

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

*slip on ice*

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Aggressor · Post by **Aggressor** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:46 am

That is horrible!

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:02 am

I think if I was in the woods and saw that thing lumbering through the brush towards me making that noise, I'd be a little more than freaked out. O.o

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:50 pm

Pretty amazing robotics.

the noise can be fixed. I'm sure it's low on the priority list of the project. I mean really. an unmuffled 2 stoke engine? They just needed something quick and dirty to make it go.

mistercool2 · Post by **mistercool2** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:50 pm

That is the most amazing and disturbing thing I've ever seen!

Kinda reminds me of the ending in \"The Fly\".
(the 2nd one with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis)

MetalBeast · Post by **MetalBeast** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:55 pm

mistercool2 wrote:That is the most amazing and disturbing thing I've ever seen!

Kinda reminds me of the ending in "The Fly".
(the 2nd one with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis)

Yes, it moves very natural, like living creature.

Really deranged

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:57 pm

That looks strangely familiar...
Shiii......

(Only AT-AT image worthwile

)

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:26 pm

And, sadly, it's poorly rendered. Perspective on the US flags is all wrong. (Actually, the lighting on the AT-ATs is a bit wrong too, but anyway.)

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:00 pm

Actually the flag is correct, in the US military they only wear 1 flag, and “that” view is the “other side”.

On a uniform you will usually see 2 images of a flag…the view from the front, (worn on the left arm) and the view of the “same” flag from the other side (worn on the right arm)

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:18 pm

I think he means whoever did this sucks at Photoshop.

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:49 pm

I know that…I just feel the need to correct people who are too picky…

Wings · Post by **Wings** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:54 pm

JMEaT wrote:I think if I was in the woods and saw that thing lumbering through the brush towards me making that noise, I'd be a little more than freaked out. O.o

Haha.

I wonder if technologies like this will be of any use sometime soon.

Drakona · Post by **Drakona** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:19 pm

Hah! I don't care if it sounds like a whole army of those things, that's the coolest robot ever. I'm amazed it didn't fall down. I sure would have.

Funny, isn't it? Robots in sci-fi are supersentient, and we can barely get AI to handle things as well-constrained as chess. On the other hand, sci-fi robots regularly have problems with things like stairs . . .

And then there's this video from reality. Sweet.

DARPA for the win.

Coming soon to a battlefield near you: scary robot dogs with guns and unbelievable balance!

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:45 pm

Drakona wrote:Hah! I don't care if it sounds like a whole army of those things, that's the coolest robot ever. I'm amazed it didn't fall down. I sure would have.

someone pushed it with their foot with what looked like all the effort he could muster, and it slipped on ice.. and both times it stayed upright!

it was so close to behaving like an actual animal I had to make sure it was a robot.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:28 am

Awesome robot stability...

... but I'm with roid, the sound was just hilarious, especially the slo-mo section, where it went from \"EEEEEEEEEEEE\" to \"e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e\".

Money! · Post by **Money!** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:01 am

I fuckin' hate that thing. It really freaks me out

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:35 am

i laugh everytime i watch this thing slip on the ice.

Dakatsu wrote:That looks strangely familiar...
Shiii......

(Only AT-AT image worthwile )

i would LOVE to see someone superimpose an AT-AT over the BigDog on this video as it prances around.

Look i'm an AT-AT, look at mee! I'm so Fabulous!

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:00 am

Spidey wrote:I know that…I just feel the need to correct people who are too picky…

...you weren't correcting me. I didn't notice they were reversed, and don't mind that so much; regardless the perspective is still wrong.

TIGERassault · Post by **TIGERassault** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:13 am

Drakona wrote:On the other hand, sci-fi robots regularly have problems with things like stairs . . .

Umm...

...what 'sci-fi' movies were you watching?

Wheeze87 · Post by **Wheeze87** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:03 am

Wow that thing is awesome! next i want to see it walk up a sand dune...

Gekko71 · Post by **Gekko71** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:04 am

TIGERassault wrote:
Drakona wrote:On the other hand, sci-fi robots regularly have problems with things like stairs . . .
Umm...

...what 'sci-fi' movies were you watching?

anything with a Darlek in it

EDIT: For those who dont know, this is a Darlek:

...god I miss Spike Milligan!

Wheeze87 · Post by **Wheeze87** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:07 am

Also theres this little beasty which can perform some rather nice aqua areobics as well!

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:31 pm

absolute amazing robot. what a walk mechanism, guess they worked ages to get the software running to control that beast in such a perfect manner.

wont like to meet that robot in the forrest either thou, that is scary like hell

Money! · Post by **Money!** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:53 pm

The jump at the end is pretty impressive as well.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:31 pm

Impressive but REALLY CREEPY! They really need to get a better power source though. That whine is nasty sounding. Maybe a small Wankel rotary engine like in the Mazda Rx sports car. It would just hummmm then.

TheCope · Post by **TheCope** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:42 pm

This is funded by the department of defense? I mean thats all fine and dandy - but couldn't you just blow its leg off?

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:46 pm

Hey! That would be fun to watch to see what it would do to compensate. Hee hee! Did they even think of that senario?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:04 pm

TheCope wrote:This is funded by the department of defense? I mean thats all fine and dandy - but couldn't you just blow its leg off?

The same is true for any human soldier (or mexican

), but they are harder to fix or replace and far more expensive on average.

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:42 pm

TheCope wrote:This is funded by the department of defense? I mean thats all fine and dandy - but couldn't you just blow its leg off?

Not if it blows yours off first...

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:57 pm

Money! wrote:The jump at the end is pretty impressive as well.

take a close look at the painted section it jumps over.
it's been digitally added into the video afterwards. The thing probably just jumped, and then they added in that painted section to show how far it jumped. It kinda implies it has targeted jumping, but i doubt that's the case - they just added in the target afterwards to show the distance it jumped after the fact.

It does act a lot like a skittish horse though hey.

TheCope wrote:This is funded by the department of defense? I mean thats all fine and dandy - but couldn't you just blow its leg off?

it's primarily being designed as an artificial pack-mule, it's just ment to carry stuff for the soldier. so it's "support", probabaly not ment to get into firefights

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:46 am

It looks like a berzerker with an giant headcrab problem.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:24 am

i bet this thing could give you a good hind leg kick too. BAM right in the Kisser

WillyP · Post by **WillyP** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:16 am

Dude you could ride that thing!

Wheeze87 · Post by **Wheeze87** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:47 am

roid wrote:BAM right in the Kisser

If im thinking about the rght thing... i beleive its
"POW.. right in the kisser" :p

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:11 pm

new video

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:32 pm

roid wrote:new video

HAHAHAHA! Thats great.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:43 pm

Oh, man... that's the funniest YouTube vid I've seen in a while.

Nergen-Ak1-Defender · Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:38 am

A little spoof i did on it.

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:29 pm

hehehe

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