Meet Google's 'Atlas' robot

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[Lazamataz]

Be afraid, be very afraid. Google's 6-foot robot named Atlas was filmed running free for the very first time in the middle of the woods.

Click here.

[Lazamataz]

Google's motto originally was "Don't Be Evil." Then somewhere along the way, it became "Let's Define What 'Evil' Is, First."

Now Google's motto is "We Build Killer Robots."

We are so screwed.

[Responsibility2nd]

OMG. I'm twice as afraid now.

 

[rbg81]

I’ll be a lot more afraid when they can cut the cable and it can free range for at least 48 hours without a recharge. That will take a while though.

[paintriot]

Looks like a drunk thats gotta sh!t.

[Lazamataz]

I had that one pulled. Bad links.

[edpc]

Some people don't like clowns. Animatronics freak me out. I don't even want to watch the video for Herbie Hancock's Rockit, much less see these things actually running around someday.

[Gunslingr3]

I’ll be a lot more afraid when they can cut the cable and it can free range for at least 48 hours without a recharge. That will take a while though.

The next contest will cut the cable and be battery operated. Battery tech is only going to keep getting better, but the fact is it will know its batteries are getting low and change them out itself...

[Lazamataz]

How about Robot Clowns?

[Rennes Templar]

“That will take a while though.”

Probably about 10 years.

[Sergio]

Aren’t “The Robot Clowns” a speed metal band from the former East Germany?

[Mariner]

"That will take a while though"

The current goal is for 1-2hrs of continuous operations on battery.

There is also a version that operates on a small 2 cycle engine, but it's "to loud" (for what I would wonder?).

But think, if armed with a couple of SAW weapons, IR vision, targeting, Facial Recognition etc. it could wreck a LOT of havoc in 1-2 hours.

[BlueDragon]

How about Robot Clowns?

from outer space, "killer", he droned in reply

[rbg81]

I guess it depends on what you want them to do. If you want to send them in as a first wave, to blow a hole though enemy lines, 2 hours might be enough. Such things would have been ideal for trench warfare in WWI [though the tank was arguable a better innovation]. Of course, today, there are other ways to do the same thing (airpower, precision guided bombs).

If you want to turn them loose in a place like Afghanistan to hunt insurgents, then 24-48 hours is probably necessary.

[Lazamataz]

Right now, it is a very poor weapon. It looks extremely delicate, very clumsy, not at all agile.

[Mariner]

"Right now, it is a very poor weapon. It looks extremely delicate, very clumsy, not at all agile."

What will it be in 5-10 years?

[wally_bert]

[Nowhere Man]

Can't forget "Boilerplate," been missing since World War I.



And "Tik-Tok" from "Return to Oz."