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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I hope you’ll be better soon.
No 12 gauge...? :)
Frozen chicken roaming around, near impossible to kill.
You need to use a heat based attack to combat its ice based powers.
Good Morning.
That ball of white fuzz is looking at you.
:)
One of the things Elen did at waterfowl rescue training yesterday was to practice putting a feeding tube into a frozen chicken (also a frozen duck). Supercharged zombie waterfowl army in 3, 2, 1 ...
Afternoon. Isn’t he pretty? He lives in Oslo, Norway.
LOL!
What worries me, is you appear to have prior experience of Frozen chicken attacks.
My unnatural talent with fire was an immense help with the frozen chicken battle.
“Why do you hate ducks so much?!?” ~Elen
I can see how it would be. However, if one want to eat the chicken, your method would be a little much.
True.
I burn rocks, so frozen chicken is almost like level one enemy.
LoL,
Ducks are cool.
Just don’t turn your back on them, not for a moment.
The nostrils are at the back of the beak for a reason...think tyre deflation. Savage when provoked.
El says geese are the worst.
When I was about 12, I had a kitten that looked almost like that one, complete with little gray spot between the ears. Nice memories, this morning.
Mother wouldn’t let her in the house, no matter how bad the weather, and when she was just barely an adult cat, one of the neighbor boys shot her in the hip with an arrow. (The same neighbor boy who stole the walnuts off my birthday cake at the only party I ever had.)
I took her to the vet a couple of blocks away and he put a cast on her right hind leg. He had never heard of putting a cast on a cat, but he did it, and it cost $12. Yep. She learned to hunt with that doggone cast on, and she was good!
Mother made a denim cover for the cast to help keep it clean but she had to make several because the cat still used her leg, and it wore through the fabric. The cat had the most peculiar gait with that thing on! We would see her out in the field, humping that leg up and over with every step she took!
One of my school friends had a drake for a watchduck. You could walk by their house on the sidewalk, but if you stepped on the lawn, and came down the walk to the front door, that goose would appear from around the corner of the house, screeching goose warnings, flapping its wings and in general, making territorial warnings.
I hated that thing. He was good at his job, though.
A psychopathic guard Goose takes the load off the Dog.
The Goose is on Q, allowing the Dog to asses the appropriate level of tail wagging.
Goose atrocities, duck outrage, and chicken hysteria.
All events witnessed at some moment in time.
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