Robots !

[SteamWake]

I know some of you are robot fans here.

This is a series of hi-res photos of all kinds of robots in action. Some amazing and frankly concearning stuff.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/robots_part_iii.html

[Schroeder]

Nice find.:up:

[Oberon]

:o

I find this the most awesome part of it all:

A group of European scientists announced in December of 2009 that they successfully connected a robotic hand to a man, Petruzziello, who had lost an arm in a car accident, allowing him to control the prosthetic with his thoughts and feel sensations in the artificial limb. The experiment lasted a month. But scientists say it marks the first time an amputee has been able to make complex movements using his mind to control a biomechanic hand connected to his nervous system.

:o

[Sailor Steve]

#6: BigDog rocks and rules! Love BigDog!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

He needs snowshoes, though.

[SteamWake]

#6: BigDog rocks and rules! Love BigDog!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

He needs snowshoes, though.

OMG that is just plain freaky. The part where he kicks it and it regains its balance then it's walking on ice you would swear it was a living breathing creature.

[Sailor Steve]

OMG that is just plain freaky. The part where he kicks it and it regains its balance then it's walking on ice you would swear it was a living breathing creature.
BigDog is developed for soldiers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3vCUFf_-uo&feature=channel, but if you want to really be creeped out check out his forerunner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIipbi0cAVE&feature=channel

Fun with BigDog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptyV1cpE14o&feature=related

[nikimcbee]

needs lasers and snow stormtroopers.

[SteamWake]

I dunno it was obvious that little dog was a machine in the way it moved. Big dog on the other hand appears to be much more organic in the way it reacts.

Speaking of that.. how about "Robot Fish"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9oseiCTdk&NR=1

I can think of a few ways this could be used ;)

and "Fish Robot"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0aafialbg&feature=related

[Jimbuna]

I dunno it was obvious that little dog was a machine in the way it moved. Big dog on the other hand appears to be much more organic in the way it reacts.

Speaking of that.. how about "Robot Fish"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9oseiCTdk&NR=1

I can think of a few ways this could be used ;)

and "Fish Robot"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0aafialbg&feature=related

I could do with some of them for my pond....make a huge saving on the feeding bill :DL

[Sailor Steve]

I dunno it was obvious that little dog was a machine in the way it moved. Big dog on the other hand appears to be much more organic in the way it reacts.
Well, LittleDog was the first model, so he gets better. If you want more organic, how about this spoof?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc&feature=related

[UnderseaLcpl]

As cool as Bigdog is, I wouldn't want that thing anywhere near me unless I was in a secured area. It's just too damn loud....and slow. Better to let soldiers carry their own loads with efficient and quickly discardable pack systems like SALLE.

If, and I stress the word if, they could make a quiet, more responsive, faster robot, I'd consider using it, but if they had such a thing we could just put guns on it and use it for fighting rather than carrying.

[SteamWake]

LOL I think the robot looked more natural than those dorks.

[Wolfehunter]

My daughter Likes the big Wall_E hehehe

[DarkFish]

:o

I find this the most awesome part of it all:

A group of European scientists announced in December of 2009 that they successfully connected a robotic hand to a man, Petruzziello, who had lost an arm in a car accident, allowing him to control the prosthetic with his thoughts and feel sensations in the artificial limb. The experiment lasted a month. But scientists say it marks the first time an amputee has been able to make complex movements using his mind to control a biomechanic hand connected to his nervous system. :o
by chance I happen to have spoken an expert on this area about a month ago, and he was quite sceptic about these kind of things. According to him, (using the current experimental technologies) we are only able to measure very few brain responses (e.g. the so-called P300-response). Definitely not the signals used to control your hand.

So don't think of it as an artificial hand you control in exactly the same way as you would control your real hands.
It probably uses some kind of "thought code" instead, using those very few signals that are measurable. This would require extensive training before you could even wobble your little finger up and down.

A very good example of how such thing works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhR076duc8M
it's not like you think "w" and a "w" appears on your screen. But rather you see the cursor automatically scroll through all the letters, and when it selects "w" you think "yeah that's the one!".

[Catfish]

Thanks for the info ...

I still like THIS video of "Big Dog":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc&feature=fvw

... epecially the END :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Greetings,
Catfish

[SteamWake]

by chance I happen to have spoken an expert on this area about a month ago, and he was quite sceptic about these kind of things. According to him, (using the current experimental technologies) we are only able to measure very few brain responses (e.g. the so-called P300-response). Definitely not the signals used to control your hand.

So don't think of it as an artificial hand you control in exactly the same way as you would control your real hands.
It probably uses some kind of "thought code" instead, using those very few signals that are measurable. This would require extensive training before you could even wobble your little finger up and down.

A very good example of how such thing works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhR076duc8M
it's not like you think "w" and a "w" appears on your screen. But rather you see the cursor automatically scroll through all the letters, and when it selects "w" you think "yeah that's the one!".

Your 'expert' friend may want to read this..

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/12/scientific-american-brave-new-brain/?test=faces

[DarkFish]

Your 'expert' friend may want to read this..

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/12/scientific-american-brave-new-brain/?test=faceswell, even in that article they admit they (quote) "are not there yet".

According to the expert I'm talking about (an electrical engineer working on things like this), we shouldn't expect to see these things in the near future.
That said, in the far future we probably will be able to do such things. Just not now yet.

With nowadays technology, the best we can do is use some very generic, easy to detect brain signals. (these applications are completely brain-controlled, mind you. It's just not the brain-control anyone would expect)

[SteamWake]

I know I just thought he might be interested in the article is all :03:

Here is a little something I think the porn industry will be all over !

Hong Kong scientists have developed a robotic hand that allows people talking over the web to experience the sensation of touching each other — even feeling the strength of a handshake.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2931764/Cyber-hand-lets-net-users-touch.html#ixzz0l5HOUdXl

[GoldenRivet]

Amazing stuff really.

especially the prosthetic applications.

[Platapus]

OMG that is just plain freaky. The part where he kicks it and it regains its balance then it's walking on ice you would swear it was a living breathing creature.


I actually got a little mad there. Hey! Why are you kicking the poor thing!!! :)

[Dowly]

Big Dog is darn creepy. :doh:

[Sailor Steve]

Big Dog is darn creepy. :doh:
Only to ferrets. If I had one I'd ride it everywhere.:yep:

[Jimbuna]

Only to ferrets. If I had one I'd ride it everywhere.:yep:

Now that would be something else...watching you ride a dog. :DL

Now where did I put that camera? :hmmm:

[Schroeder]

Big Dog is darn creepy. :doh:
I thought you like it creepy.;)

:D

[d@rk51d3]

#4 looks like he's about to get one hell of an anal probe. :D

[Dowly]

I thought you like it creepy.;)

:D

Nuts.

[frau kaleun]

Now that would be something else...watching you ride a dog. :DL

Now where did I put that camera? :hmmm:

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

http://actinglikeanimals.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/129137581870426216.jpg

[TLAM Strike]

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6451/r1122661023.th.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/r1122661023.jpg/)
Now who is in charge in this relationship? Aren't the robots the ones that should be to helping with the heavy lifting and not the other way around? I have a feeling this is how Skynet begins.

*Beep* *Beep* "Move faster meatbag! Mush, Mush!!" >zap<

[SteamWake]

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6451/r1122661023.th.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/r1122661023.jpg/)
Now who is in charge in this relationship? Aren't the robots the ones that should be to helping with the heavy lifting and not the other way around? I have a feeling this is how Skynet begins.

*Beep* *Beep* "Move faster meatbag! Mush, Mush!!" >zap<

heh I can see it now.. she unpacks the thing sets it up and tells it to go dispose of a bomb... to which the robot shakes its 'head' "I aint gonna pick that up you do it!" :haha: