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Darpa Creating Cheetah-Bot to Hunt Humans
Tom's Guide ^
| March 2, 2011
| Tuan Mai
Posted on 03/03/2011 5:18:00 AM PST by decimon
Darpa awards contract to create a cheetah robot that is faster than the fastest human alive.
On Friday, Boston Dynamics has announced that the United States Department of Defense's research agency, DARPA, has awarded them a contract to build a new four-legged robot that will be fast enough to chase, evade, and hunt down the fastest human.
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:18:01 AM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:19:33 AM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
But can it move fast enough to catch a Wisconsin Senator?
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:19:48 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(Whenever a Liberal admits to something: he is covering up something far worse)
To: decimon
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:20:55 AM PST
by
stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: decimon
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:24:30 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: agere_contra
But can it move fast enough to catch a Wisconsin Senator?Nothing can move faster than the speed of cheese.
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:24:38 AM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
I saw this in “Red Planet” - didn’t work out too well for them... :-)
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:35:08 AM PST
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ThunderSleeps
(Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: decimon
The future is looking very spooky..... I swear they made a movie about something like this...
To: decimon
Yeah, well, fine.....but what’s it gonna do once it catches ‘em? Bury ‘em like a cat turd or something?
To: agere_contra
“But can it move fast enough to catch a Wisconsin Senator?...”
Naaah..its bred for a taste for TeaPartiers....
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:39:40 AM PST
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
To: RightOnline
Shoot you, rip you to shreds, at the very least hold you until you can be rounded up spring immediately to mind. Where do you think you’re going with a 400 pound machine clamped to you?
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:48:38 AM PST
by
Jack of all Trades
(Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
To: ThunderSleeps
AMEE the killer robot from Red Planet comes to real life.....
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posted on
03/03/2011 5:55:50 AM PST
by
sniper63
(Did you plug the hole in the border yet daddy........)
To: decimon
This reminds me of the robotic police dogs used in Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”. In the book they chase you down and leap with a drug filled syringe loaded in their nose.
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posted on
03/03/2011 6:04:47 AM PST
by
broken_clock
(When seconds count, the police are only minutes away...)
To: decimon
And the TSA? How many are they ordering?
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posted on
03/03/2011 6:06:04 AM PST
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GOPJ
(http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
To: glorgau
Built by Skynet.Yes, built by Skynet...
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posted on
03/03/2011 6:07:28 AM PST
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GOPJ
(http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
To: sniper63
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posted on
03/03/2011 6:08:50 AM PST
by
T-Bro
(Hey, dems... tax this!)
To: decimon
While certainly a fearsome prospect, I think it’s going to be a long, long time before something like this would have the situational awareness of a real feline. Furthermore, this will be programmed or piloted by humans who think like humans and would have it’s inherent vulnerabilities.
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03/03/2011 6:13:52 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: GOPJ
And the TSA? How many are they ordering?TSA is getting the Groping Gopher model. It's not fast but it's thorough.
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posted on
03/03/2011 6:17:36 AM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
Here is the biological model, designed to chase down, knock down, and hold by the throat a human.
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posted on
03/03/2011 6:22:21 AM PST
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allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: decimon
Darpa Creating Cheetah-Bot to Hunt Humans
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