Posted on 03/20/2008 11:11:27 PM PDT by wastedyears
I just got this in my e-mail from Military.com. The thing looks like a huge bug. Looking at the thing reminded me of The Fly with Jeff Goldblum, which freaked me out.
we.. are.. dead.
Spooky!
Saw that video that other day. Truly remarkable in many respects. The way it can recover from being kicked on an icy surface is amazing. To carry (and correct) nearly 600 lbs (itself + payload) it must have some very serious “ampacity”, hence the 2-cycle engine-generator. It is a very freaky creation, there’s no denying it.
Make a great pet. No feed. No doo doo.
Coming soon...AT-AT’s
It should shriek hideously when approached.
I felt bad for it when the guy kicked it, and cheered a little inside when it recovered. Very odd feelings watching this video.
Way-over-$100 robot ping. It is freaking me out.
It won’t feel bad for you.
On the shelf by next Christmas shopping season?
What an odd machine....wonder why they have the front legs bend inwards?
Its not quite a ‘dog’ as a dogs front legs don’t bend that way....
I’m not sure that I know of any animal with front legs that bend inward...
Huddled in the bushes, in clothing fouled with his own waste, Achmend could hear the death dog approaching; the whine of it’s engine was as the keening of the Death Bringer, Himani itself - the noise of the seeker heads, an eerie echo and the clatter of the dual machine guns spelled the end of more of his comrades; Allhah, why did he ever think he could challenge the Pale Ones, bringers of all manner of Death, from the sky, the Earth and the Water.
Your turn, must use Death Dog, the vid IS just too cool otherwise
The noise is extremely creepy - sounds like killer bees attacking. More later.
Exactly - talk about PsyOps! New name, Screaming Death Bringer.
P-61 Whispering Death
and so on....
You cheated - you used a semi-colon!
Thoroughly incensed by Achmend’s bad grammer and malodorous effluvium, as of a charnal house combined with a cast-iron commode on the clondike, an instrament of torture and frostbitten skin that empties into a normally-frozen pit, but stinks to high heaven after the summer thaw, the Death Dog, buzzing like a hive of angry killer bees, formulated a strategy in its canine-like but completely artifical brain, with full intent to hunt Achmend down like a reincarnation of Himani, and treat him like an unfaithful daughter in the the land of Allah, by sawing off his head ceramoniously, not so much due to the naseating smell, but because the Death Dog is programmed to hunt down and kill those who abuse english grammar in a firefight, Allah an’shallah.
It's a prototype. They don't care if it's noisy, the important thing is that it walks
In production for the field, they would probably put in an ultra-quiet fuel cell or some such.
And that is exactly the problem - energy density to power the thing.
It is a common problem, and you would not believe how many people are working on it.
Actually... all four-legged animals' legs bend just like that.
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