BigDog (1 Viewer)

[Thorin]

so you are just going to sit back and watch it???

i just ordered 10 bigdogs for the house

I would buy one for the crib, but I would have to spend a fortune on software upgrades for the thing:


Babysitting 3.1

Pale Ale Brewing 5.0

Whiskey Still Operation 4.3

Lawn Care 1.5

Racketeering and Card Counting 10.5

The list goes on...

 

[Zack Lee]

I thought we had a Boston Dynamics thread, it just didn't come up searching robot. There latest achievement is the speedy bot. (you have to get 1 minute in before you see full speed)

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[jrdbrn]

So, in a war against these things... take out one leg.

 

[Zack Lee]

this company now belongs to Google. I knew google was trying to take over the world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-its-menagerie-of-robots.html?_r=0

Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans.

It is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the last half-year.

 

[Zack Lee]

The deal is also the clearest indication yet that Google is intent on building a new class of autonomous systems that might do anything from warehouse work to package delivery and even elder care.

ok so this guy must be for package delivery because I think they overdid it if it is to retrieve grandpa if he breaks out of assisted living.

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[BHM]

Please merge with Terminator Reboot thread.

 

[Redfish]

Please merge with Terminator Reboot thread.

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