An upright robot walking like a human. This is NOT CGI. This sent a shiver up my spine .

are you 12?

there's two 'o's in too btw

Google bought that company! [link to www.theguardian.com]

The link has all the videos of their robots. Google will become Skynet.


Last Edited by KipKat on 10/25/2014 03:11 PM

No. I disagree. The robot looked clumsy. Plus the operator is controlling the robots steps. This robot does not have the intellect to maneuver itself through any obstacle. I can comfortably state that we are still a ways off till singularity. That is all.

This is certain to turn out well for everyone.

So, when the government produces 10,000 of the untethered version, and equips each with autonomous AI whose goal is to seek out and destroy any threat to said government, won't we all rest that much easier in our beds?

Small efficient power sources will always be kept out of public sight because energy dependence is critical for maintaining control over the populations.

I have no doubt that there are power sources that they could use when they establish the police state and no longer need to worry about it.

THANK GOD

I think it could be built in a different manner.

According to the calculation I just made, a human body (2000 kcal diet) eats 2,3 KWh a day.

So robot could potentially be made and use similar amount.
But lets forget that we have an immune system and brain that consumes a lot of energy..
Lets use all that for motion.
Then..

A li-ion battery (18650) with say 10Wh, weight is about 40gram
For one day, you would need 230 of these batteries.
230 * 0.04 (kg) = about 9 Kg (20 lbs)

I say doable.

What will you do when 666 unleashes and army of black robots on humanity that will not stop until we are dead?

Yeah, do you see those cables attached to it?
This thing consumes terawats of energy and thats the main problem. Not the robot tech itself which can be very advanced but the power source required to make it autonomous.
If you fail to make the autonomous then the whole tech is useless.

Checkout the movie: "Autómata" when you have the chance.

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Don't expect The Terminator type of movie though... more along the lines of Blade Runner. I won't give away the ending but it won't be what you were exspecting is all I will say about it. The only fault I had with it was the sound quality wasn't that good.

Cant we strap some steel plates to this beast and use it as a target for plinking?

An RC car with a couple ballons on it is fun, but this thing would be outrageous.

You could make a bunch of money with a hand full of these at your shooting range.

At the last stages of the clip you can see they are not showing the cable which is hooked on for balance and you can see the crane that holds it upright. It means that thing doesn't have balance. The real breakthrough its its lower joints that understand the terain and its making autonomous decisions on where and how to walk. Or so they tell us..

That is why a breakthrough in batteries or small energy sources will be a closely kept military secret

I agree with you. Both this robot and Petman are awkward and unstable. Petman's stability comes by the attachment of 5+ cables and though this robot is more stable, he's also slow, uses insane amounts of energy, and isn't capable of conscious thought. At least not yet. When that happens, I will be more alarmed.

Ah, interesting. I didn't even see the cable/craine. Now I'm even less impressed. Thanks for the info.

They have mobile power sources but it is pointless to use them at this stage of development.

I have no connection to this work but this much is obvious.


Example: Using a nuclear core power source would slow down testing to a crawl due to regulations, triple checks, containment, etc.


Or using phosphene capacitors which can hold more then the best batteries out there. But they also could discharge at once if not controlled properly.

I bet the other components are being worked on down the hall.

Personally, I found this one to be far creepier. (I recommend turning the volume down).

You are right.
Even if they discover a portable high power source they would never dare to roll out these robots in public because they must maintain the lie of low power tech people are forced to use today.
Another thing is that they make those things expensive for a reason. For instance rare earths materials are expensive and if they focus their research towards expensive materials instead of something really cheap abundand everywhere then this technology is out of reach for the masses. Otherwise the Overlords rolling out those machines in the future wouldn't have any real advantage over the masses.

This is for public consumption. What you have mentioned already exists. THANK DAARPA

One look at this thing and you can tell it wouldn't take much to push it over. It has to walk slowly to even get over steps.

Humans have an amazing ability to readjust their weight, to react. For instance if you are walking and a guy runs up to bumrush you and knock you down, you will react and shift weight, use certain muscles to fend off the impact, there is a ton of energy and decisions going on in just that tiny second.

They can barely make a robot who walks, and they have been working on it for decades. All of the problems, including power source, intuition, split second decisions, etc. These are relegated to a sci fi movie.

They should even show a means of the robot making decisions by itself. At least for the automated process of pathfinding and joints motorization. Who knows if its really not just RC remote controled by a human operator.

Wish more could see.

Nothing has yet to beat the robot from red planet for me, as soon that is built we can hand in our P45s as a species.

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Robophobe~! ;)

Although with the neural programming they use to teach robots their gaits walking is pretty much a given for robots now, they need to work on object recognition and object intelligence, then create an assumption model so they can cut down on processing.

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Yeah, I've been a big fan of Big Dog for years. Very similar to this video - excellent balance and quick recovery in terrain situations. But good God so loud!!