Posted on 02/28/2017 7:23:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Google-owned robotics firm and “nightmare” factory Boston Dynamics has released video of its latest creation: a two-wheeled, four-legged hybrid robot named Handle.
The robot can stand on four legs, like Boston Dynamics’ previous creations such as BigDog and Spot. But at the end of its back two legs are two stabilised wheels, which let it stand up vertically and roll around at speeds of up to nine miles per hour. Think “Terminator riding on a hoverboard” and you’ll have a pretty good idea of the impression Handle gives off.
Boston Dynamics says the reason for the hybrid design is the simplicity it affords: rather than needing the complex joints of the fully-quadrupedal bots, Handle’s wheels can speed it around with little difficulty, while its front legs can be used for balance and for carrying loads of up to 50kg.
“Handle uses many of the same dynamics, balance and mobile manipulation principles found in the quadruped and biped robots we build,” Boston Dynamics said, “but with only about 10 actuated joints, it is significantly less complex. Wheels are efficient on flat surfaces while legs can go almost anywhere: by combining wheels and legs, Handle can have the best of both worlds.” The video does not, however, show Handle walking rather that scooting around on its wheels.
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Many of the world's problems can be attributed to people who have an insufficient concept of the importance of time as a factor in our lives and influence for humanity.
It's good to see that your time-sense can last for as long as a week. I've seen people who don't even notice the red light in front of them until they're only two car-lengths from it.
Stretching your time-sense is what allows you to plan for a future for your progeny, even if that future merely grants you a vision of their moving out.
I felt better after talking to Charlie, but one of our other neighbors said that some woman is telling people that write-ins have to be “vetted” and then that it was in the by-laws. Neither thing is true.
So I’m just going to let them do what they want until The Suits get ahold of it. This is straight from the Klingon. It has her hairy little fingerprints all over it.
They all must be Liberals because they don’t care who they lie to.
It’s definitely a vision.
AVG IS Avast...
Feature.
The word is 'feature'...
I already have Avast. AVG doesn’t look the same as Avast. But I’ll take your word for it! :o]
"AVG AntiVirus is a family of anti-virus and Internet security software developed by AVG Technologies, a subsidiary of Avast Software." (from the repository of the sum total of the knowledge in the universe, Wikipedia)
If you have Avast you should have it. Unless you have an old copy (the free versions tend not to update themselves, it's something you are left to do) in which case uninstall it and install the new. If you download it, download it from the company, not any of the myriads of 'free download' sites out there (e.g. C-Net) because those 'free' sites tend to load the link with a glob of crapware that if you aren't watching will install on your machine too. Here's the link to Avast Free direct from them..
Looking at both sites though it looks as if the current versions of both have the same 'look'..
Sound logic as usual : )
Correction: The link goes to AVG Free not Avast free. Probably Dark’s fault it got typed wrong.. ;-)
Well? What happened? I’m all a-quiver at the suspense!
(I have an unexciting life.)
When I went to the websites for AVG and Avira, I wasn’t bothered with pop-ups. I just downloaded the programs. The only problem came at the end of the installation when Avira locked up the laptop.
But both are installed. It takes a few minutes longer to boot up, but if that means the programs are working, that’s fine with me. I don’t like viruses and in the last three weeks, I’ve had two, which is surprising, because I use DuckDuckGo for my search engine and I haven’t been to any sites that are not normally visited by me.
One virus was a Trojan, so no telling where that came from. I just know that once I shut down and went to a restore point, things were OK. But the second one is when I asked for help. So thanks, guys!
Wellnow...where did I end off? Oh, yes. Since Zeke was gone in the morning, he was on his way home (by bus) when he asked for an update. I told him after I talked to Sean and heard what he was told by the Klingon, I was so angry, I could hardly stand myself.
He said he would take it from there. He made a call to HUD in Vegas, telling them that what the Klingon did was illegal, because “she was preventing people from voting and causing her people to be voted in because there was no choice.” (Does this sound familiar?)
The text conversation covered about 15 minutes, and I haven’t heard from him since. They all should have gotten the letter yesterday, although not in time to stop the election, but what makes me almost apoplectic is the fact that I asked them in a previous letter not to let the Klingon near the election.
I’m going up to open in a few minutes and will see if anything is posted.
Oy, I was hoping you would say it was all resolved!
I’m going to Weight Watchers this morning, with a stop at the bread outlet on the way home. I got up about 4:30 because I had a headache, so I’ll probably crash by early afternoon.
I’ve heard of all of them but the moose. Weird.
It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. I didn’t see anything when I unlocked, but Zeke said it was in the “glass case” (locked) but stated, “It ain’t over ‘cause the Irish are pi$$ed off!” So I texted back, “So are the Sioux!” So no, it isn’t over. And I suspected there will be another election before all is said and done.
And Zeke just sent a text confirming my worst fears: The Klingon-Bots are in power.
Well, nothing like a good battle to keep everyone’s spirits up!
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