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Meet DARPA's Humanoid Robot That Could Someday Save You From A Crumbling Building
A century of sci-fi movie predictions have just been realized in the 6-foot-tall, robust android called Atlas.
By: Kit Eaton 0 Comments Email 0246Print
Boston Dynamics has been busy working on an entrant for DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge, a contest aimed to create robots that can help in disaster situations. Of course, they could also be used by the military...
Now, Boston Dynamics has revealed its entrant: A 6-foot-tall humanoid robot called Atlas.
Compared to the bumbling, tottering, and slow humanoid robots that have hit the media before, you may be shocked at how resilient Atlas is. The machine has sophistication that approaches the stuff of science fiction. It can cope with unexpected trip hazards, survive being knocked off balance by a 20-pound weight, and if the tricks of its developmental predecessor, Petman, are anything to go by, it can climb over obstacles and autonomously navigate to a certain degree.
Give it a few years and a robot like Atlas may be pulling survivors from tumbled buildings in post-earthquake scenarios. And possibly terrifying the crap out of enemy soldiers on the battlefield
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I'm safe. Terminator has no use for animal skins (unwashed) and a Hawaiian shirt.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
the day of judgement is near.
If your reading this, you are the resistance.
Come into my web, said the spider to the fly.
Come rest your wings, and let us talk eye to eye.
For I am a spider, and you are the fly. Now that you are here, let us sit, and say hi.
But I have have no morsel to share, nor anything to eat. But wait, what is that stickiness upon your feet.
Ah now I have you, now I can eat. Now I can enjoy you, or store you as meat.
For I am the spider, and you are the fly. How else could it have gone, between one such as you, and one such as I.
2013/07/12 20:50:49
Subject: Re:Cyberdyne Systems Terminator 001 is Born
I am unafraid. No matter how agile a humanoid robot is, it's got the brain of a glorified supermarket self-checkout scanner. And even those, which "replaced" humans in the stores, have to have a person to be their nanny when they constantly screw up.
This thing may be able to run into burning buildings in the near future, but I refuse to be scared by a robot running out of a building with the random human-sized object it just saved instead of the burning person six feet to the left.
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"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
2013/07/12 23:40:19
Subject: Re:Cyberdyne Systems Terminator 001 is Born
But why does it want my clothes, boots and motorcycle?
This is a naked 6' + not a single ounce of fat on the gorilla on steroids that looks human....Monster....can you imagine the horror going through your mind if it threw in "Your ass to" if Cyberdyne misplaced a decimal point and made the T1000 a Male Raping Kill All Humans machine...
Proud Member of the Infidels of OIF/OEF
No longer defending the US Military or US Gov't. Just going to ""**feed into your fears**"" with Duffel Blog Did not fight my way up on top the food chain to become a Vegan...
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Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend
DE 6700
Harlequin 2500
RIP Muhammad Ali.
Jihadin, Scorched Earth 791. Leader of the Pork Eating Crusader. Alpha
2013/07/15 06:22:38
Subject: Re:Cyberdyne Systems Terminator 001 is Born
But why does it want my clothes, boots and motorcycle?
This is a naked 6' + not a single ounce of fat on the gorilla on steroids that looks human....Monster....can you imagine the horror going through your mind if it threw in "Your ass to" if Cyberdyne misplaced a decimal point and made the T1000 a Male Raping Kill All Humans machine...
If you legalize gay marriage, you're one step closer to being sodomized by robots! Eat the bible and praise the lord! Hallejuyuhgh!
For I am a spider, and you are the fly. Now that you are here, let us sit and say hi.
but I have have no morsel to share, nor anything to eat. But wait, what is that stickiness upon your feet.
Ah now I have you, now I can eat. Now I can enjoy you, or store you as meat.
For I am the spider, and you are the fly. How else could it have gone, between one such as you, and one such as I.
Random gak I know. But the moral is, people will say anything to lure you into laughing things off, or into thinking your safe when your not.
Come into my web, said the spider to the fly.
Come rest your wings, and let us talk eye to eye.
For I am a spider, and you are the fly. Now that you are here, let us sit, and say hi.
But I have have no morsel to share, nor anything to eat. But wait, what is that stickiness upon your feet.
Ah now I have you, now I can eat. Now I can enjoy you, or store you as meat.
For I am the spider, and you are the fly. How else could it have gone, between one such as you, and one such as I.
2013/07/16 09:40:58
Subject: Re:Cyberdyne Systems Terminator 001 is Born
