Big Dog... This is where the machines start to take over

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » March 18th, 2008, 0:25

Azra3l wrote:
Sarah Connor wrote:3 billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, my son. The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year 1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at John himself when he was still a child. As before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for John. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww[/media]

wiki wrote: BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. [1]

BigDog is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the hopes that it will be able to serve as a robotic pack mule to accompany soldiers in terrain too rough for conventional vehicles. Instead of wheels or treads, BigDog uses four legs for movement, allowing it to move across surfaces which would defeat wheels. The legs feature a variety of sensors in them, including joint position and ground contact. BigDog also features a laser gyroscope and a stereo vision system.

BigDog is one meter long, 0.7 meters tall, and weighs 75 kilograms, around the size of a small mule. It is currently capable of traversing difficult terrain at 5.3 kilometers per hour (3.3 mph), carry a 340lb load, and climb a 35 degree incline.

Locamotion is controlled by an onboard computer brain that receives input from the various sensors featured on the BigDog. Navigation and balance are also managed by the control system.
pay attention a quarter of the way through the video, some guy tries to kick it over while it is running at full speed, and fails. then at about the halfway point they make it walk over a frozen lake. bear in mind that thing is carrying the weight equivalent of Me and Pappalardo with holiday sitting on his shoulders..

then it starts jumping......

personally i love robotics and AI research, the advances in the last few years or so have been staggering. but the second we manage to create a turing-capable AI and mount it on a body like this is the day we might as well send russia an intercontinental ballistic birthday present..

T2 - Judgement Day wrote:The Terminator: The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet knows the Russian counter-attack will eliminate its enemies over here
it will save the machines the job...

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » March 18th, 2008, 0:41

Soilder One: Do you hear something?
Soilder Two: Pardon?
Soilder One: DO YOU HE- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT NOISE?
Soilder Two: WHAT?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » March 18th, 2008, 0:42

Stoat wrote:
Soilder One: Do you hear something?
Soilder Two: Pardon?
Soilder One: DO YOU HE- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT NOISE?
Soilder Two: WHAT?

Post by **FatherJack** » March 18th, 2008, 0:44

Keep kicking them and it's inevitable they'll fight back.

Post by **Grimmie** » March 18th, 2008, 0:50

Magnificent.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » March 18th, 2008, 6:25

that thing scares me, it's like something out of silent hill.

Shada · Post by **Shada** » March 18th, 2008, 13:50

Mr. Johnson wrote:that thing scares me, it's like something out of silent hill.

If it went a little faster it wouldn't look out of place fighting along side Combine Hunters in HL2 either.

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » March 18th, 2008, 15:41

Post by **HereComesPete** » March 18th, 2008, 17:13

Pffffffffffffffft.

amblin · Post by **amblin** » March 18th, 2008, 19:54

friznit · Post by **friznit** » March 19th, 2008, 10:30

amblin wrote:It does indeed move like the kind of dumb puppy on ice we all giggle at, except it's only a matter of time before it's carrying 100lbs of C4 and some turret mounted machine guns. Then would not be a good time to be within a mile of the thing wearing a towel on your head having just come out of the shower.

I'm pretty sure the Taleban take the towels off their heads when getting into the shower.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » March 19th, 2008, 11:14

Isn't it Talaban?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » March 19th, 2008, 11:16

Taliban or Taleban, depending on your mood.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » March 19th, 2008, 11:20

I knew the second A didn't look right, cheers

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » March 19th, 2008, 13:32

BigDog is one meter long, 0.7 meters tall, and weighs 75 kilograms, around the size of a small mule. It is currently capable of traversing difficult terrain at 5.3 kilometers per hour (3.3 mph), carry a 340lb load, and climb a 35 degree incline.

Or you could use a mule... Very quiet, cheap to produce and maintain with minimal materials and does all of the things BigDog does.

It's funny, when you look at that - with all our modern technology - how far behind we are from Mother Nature... The bitch...

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 19th, 2008, 13:38

I think Amblin's referring to fact he's got long girly hair, and so wraps it up in a towel after showering, while also singing pop songs into his hairdryer.

amblin · Post by **amblin** » March 19th, 2008, 15:09