Robots !
 

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/201..._part_iii.html

Nice find.:up:

:o

I find this the most awesome part of it all:

:o

#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.

BigDog is developed for soldiers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3vCU...eature=channel, but if you want to really be creeped out check out his forerunner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIipb...eature=channel

Fun with BigDog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptyV1...eature=related

needs lasers and snow stormtroopers.

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=3P0aa...eature=related

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

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=VXJZV...eature=related

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.

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

My daughter Likes the big Wall_E hehehe

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!".

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