Cat\'s of the world BEWARE!! It\'s BigDog!!

generulpoleaxe

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whilst that\'s realy cool, why a petrol engine?
you can get electric motors and batteries that would fit into the same space nowadays.
i thought noise would have been an issue when it\'s being funded by the american defense department.
 

Undave

Flockwit
Most of the time on the video it looks like two blokes head to head in a suit. It is creepily lifelike maybe we could get one and teach it some dressage moves so we\'ll do better in the next Olympics.

As for the petrol engine it sounds like a swarm of killer bees. If I was an enemy soldier I\'d certainly vacate the area if I thought a swarm of killer bees was headed my way. Almost as scary as man eating badgers :eek:
 

Einion

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Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
whilst that\'s realy cool, why a petrol engine?
Power requirements?

Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
i thought noise would have been an issue when it\'s being funded by the american defense department.
This is the same defense department that OKed the Bradley, the Abrams and the Humvee... obvious flaws/limitations are kinda not a big issue!

Einion
 

Aliengod3

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When I saw the guy push the machine and it corrected itself so to not fall over I was beginning to think it was some well done CGI. That is one awesome machine!
 

Amazon warrior

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Wow! Now combine that with the Aibo and get proper synthpets on the market. When it dies, you just have to change the batteries!

Its movements were scarily real-looking when the guy kicked it and when it slipped on the ice.
 

mud duck

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Originally posted by Einion
Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
whilst that\'s realy cool, why a petrol engine?
Power requirements?

Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
This is the same defense department that OKed the Bradley, the Abrams and the Humvee... obvious flaws/limitations are kinda not a big issue!

Einion

Uh? I don\'t get it..


I have to agree the movement on this robot is creepy lifelike. I wonder if we could be seeing a couple of these walking on Mars and the moon in a couple of years?
 

Einion

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Originally posted by mud duck
Uh? I don\'t get it..
The quote was messed up so I presume this was @ me?

There were major issues with the Abrams and the Humvee in their first configurations and there are still problems with both in the field that could have been avoided from the start. The Bradley was just a joke by the time it got fielded.

Einion
 
Seriously cool. As the rest said, the movements when kicked or slipping are uncanny. But hey - a couple of years on, we\'ll have our own AT-AT\'s! :flip:
 

evil tendencies

Cake or Death?
Now the question is how much more effective these will be compared to mules and other traditional pack animals. This is probably a hell of a lot more expensive than a mule, does about the same thing, and still requires fuel.

That being said, this IS pretty darn cool; I really liked the way the thing recovered after being kicked.
 

Arma

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lol tears at the parody. Seriously though - I watched this with a :eek: face. Amazing stuff really - almost real!
 

uberdark

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kicking that thing is the reason why the robots will take over...... of course thats after the zombies but before the monkeys.

:eek::p:eek:
 

daddyo

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big dog

Wow!

That was positively wild. And I got to play with some of the USAF\'s newest toys. But that was way back when jets were still made of aluminum and controlled by cables and stuff.

The gas engine on Bigdog is used because there is nothing short of nuclear power that can provide a bunch of energy in a small package. Electrics, even though they are getting better and better by generation after generation, still cannot provide the same specific impulse of gasoline.

I have to get one of those things to chase my wife\'s cats around. So cool!
 
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