And you thought BigDog was scary...
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:26 pm
For those of you that don't remember, BigDog was the robotic thing with 4 legs that sounds like an angry weedwhacker and can run/hop/skip do the whatoozie whatever. And there was rumor it was going to be weaponized. That was 2007.
Well, here's BigDog:
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NOW, since that wasn't fast enough apparently, there's this:
Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey
As the name implies, Cheetah is designed to be a four-legged robot with a flexible spine and articulated head (and potentially a tail) that pledges to run faster than the fastest human. In addition to raw speed, Cheetah’s makers promise that it will have the agility to make tight turns so that it can to “zigzag to chase and evade” and be able to stop “on a dime.”
story here: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02 ... human-prey
Kind of like this thing:
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Apparently this is an obscure movie from 1990, but I saw it in the theater with a buddy of mine. On acid. I don't recommend doing that. But anyway, the robot was designed to kill people as part of a "population control" measure.
Well, here's BigDog:
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b2bExqhhWRI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
NOW, since that wasn't fast enough apparently, there's this:
Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey
As the name implies, Cheetah is designed to be a four-legged robot with a flexible spine and articulated head (and potentially a tail) that pledges to run faster than the fastest human. In addition to raw speed, Cheetah’s makers promise that it will have the agility to make tight turns so that it can to “zigzag to chase and evade” and be able to stop “on a dime.”
story here: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02 ... human-prey
Kind of like this thing:
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jnVVyfyFChE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Apparently this is an obscure movie from 1990, but I saw it in the theater with a buddy of mine. On acid. I don't recommend doing that. But anyway, the robot was designed to kill people as part of a "population control" measure.