Big Dog

SphereOfFeetMan · Post by **SphereOfFeetMan** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:44 pm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Fwib · Post by **Fwib** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:10 pm

Mule, surely?

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:22 am

That's creepier than fuck. I'll be seeing that thing in my nightmares now.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:49 am

I am partly unnerved by its appearance.

I partly think it is cute and feel sorry for it as it slips around and is shoved about.

Poor mule-dog-robot-that-will-kill-us-all-in-our-sleep.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:56 pm

That thing has been prancing around the internet for a few years now. IMO the primary reason for its creepiness is that it looks like a pantomime horse made by two guys bent over at the waist with their torsos welded together at the shoulders. Fucking uncanny valley.

Anyway, as useful as it may be as a pack animal it would be way more useful with a machine gun on its back. Not because it would be any more effective than a soldier, but because it would be so unnerving.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:07 pm

it's all pneumatics, hence the loud motors.

But yeah, it'd be far better than the tread-bot with the machine gun, if only because it's far better at terrain (and faster).

It seriously needs some real feet or hooves for traction, a quieter engine, perhaps using some of the newer actuators so it would have a load capacity.

I think it's awesome. The swimming/crawling snake bot and fish bots are pretty neat, too.

-Crissa

the_taken · Post by **the_taken** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:43 am

Crissa wrote:t seriously needs some real feet or hooves for traction, a quieter engine, perhaps using some of the newer actuators so it would have a load capacity.

-Crissa

Saw an article in a science mag once. Was showcasing plastic muscles. Specifically, it's plastic solid that changes shape quickly when an electrical current is run thru it. Can't remember much more than that.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:03 am

When the vid began playing my heart froze when I saw the legs and thought OH MY GODS IT'S SOME KIND OF DEMFORMED CROSSBREED OF ANIMAL LOOK AT THE LEGS THAT'S FUCKING SICK-oh wait, that's just a robot.

Edit: and for the horror fans.... I must add that it's very, um, 'gashunk'.

Murtak · Post by **Murtak** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:23 am

Crissa wrote:It seriously needs some real feet or hooves for traction, a quieter engine, perhaps using some of the newer actuators so it would have a load capacity.

I thought the 300 lb capacity of the current Big Dog is already pretty impressive.