This thing is freaky and awsome!
Yes I searched, if it is already posted I couldn't find it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YUoW43Xq7ts&search=sensor

From Boston Dynamics (http://www.bdi.com/index.php) comes this odd-looking, gasoline-powered robot that looks like two guys carrying a couch, but acts almost alive.

"BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are articulated like an animal's, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.

BigDog has an on-board computer that controls locomotion, servos the legs and handles a wide variety of sensors. BigDog's control system manages the dynamics of its behavior to keep it balanced, steer, navigate, and regulate energetics as conditions vary. Sensors for locomotion include joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a laser gyroscope, and a stereo vision system. Other sensors focus on the internal state of BigDog, monitoring the hydraulic pressure, oil temperature, engine temperature, rpm, battery charge and others.

So far, BigDog has trotted at 3.3 mph, climbed a 35 degree slope and carried a 120 lb load."

It really does look like 2 guys carrying a couch...

Well I suppose it is Robot Wednsday. (http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23247&page=16&highlight=%22robot+wednsday%22)

Post 160 in particular. (http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showpost.php?p=902777&postcount=160)

When I saw the the title, I saw quadraped and thought "quad - raped," as in, "big dog rapes robot four different ways." I need serious help.

When I saw the the title, I saw quadraped and thought "quad - raped," as in, "big dog rapes robot four different ways." I need serious help.


I read the same thing. Let me know if you find help!

I read the same thing. Let me know if you find help!
Ditto. I guess we're a bunch of sick fucks here.

Well I suppose it is Robot Wednsday. (http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23247&page=16&highlight=%22robot+wednsday%22)

Post 160 in particular. (http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showpost.php?p=902777&postcount=160)

aw, and there i was, thinking people forgot the tradition i started

.... except it's tuesday

CURSED DAYS OF THE WEEK! Why can I not keep you in order?!

So basically it's a dog that rapes robots?

Holy **** that's cool. The recovery from the kick...awesome.

I saw this video a while back.

From what I understand the military is going to be using it to hump supplies in to troops that are under fire and carry out injured troops on the way back. That sorta thing.

It is pretty freaky looking. Looks like it belongs in one of the Silent Hill games.

I think it's awsome.

That thing is in serious need of machine guns and flamethrowers

and uh, someone needs to make it look not so goofy too.

I am pretty impressed that they can shove it and it can recover it's balance and it can walk on uneven enviornments.

Judgement Day is inevitable.

This thing is really cool, just think of all the applications it could have in the future!

Don't want to risk a message/supply/ammunition/whatever run to another unit? Send the Big Dog.

Old woman needs to carry her garden tools to the garden but doesn't want to break her back? Get the big dog.

Old woman needs to carry her garden tools to the garden but doesn't want to break her back? Get the big dog.

That's one big garden.

Or REALLY old lady.

lol

But what if these robots rise up against us, **** on the lawn and start chewing the sofa? We'd need titanium newspapers to whack them on the nose and tell them to go to their cyber-dog baskets 'cos Daddy doesn't love them anymore...