Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans

Imagine being chased down the street by one these:

Blog entry: www.newscientist.com...

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Pentagon request: www.dodsbir.net...

Love the blog title!


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looks like it all going to be great fun, we can use these to hunt down the politicians and the bankers.............yeah, maybe not.

you'ld hear these thing a mile off, throw a rock at it or something. i find a pack of doberman a scarier prospect.
actually a pack of jack russels is probably scarier.

future development might be bad but this is just silly.

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Sarah Connor where are you!..........

Saw video last year on those........pretty amazing.....pretty sureal.......

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Looks like a big bloody blow fly!

Damn scary if u ask me :

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if he had followed up that kick with a good shoulder charge that thing would have been down

just goes to show even advanced robot sytems will fall for the old some one crouches next to em someone else pushes em over gag

although if you are afraid of wasps/bee's the sound enough will scare ya

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It's gotta be still in prototype stage. The way it moves and retains balance is amazing just from an engineering standpoint.

You can be sure with defense funding that these things will be silent and much smaller in a few years.

Very scarey indeed.

if that things chasing me i'll be sure to leisurely walk up a hill. that should grant me about a 3 minute head start once it reaches the top



it is interesting how it balances itself though. i'd like to see what could be done with this in the future, so long as it isn't given cognitive ability lol

its still pretty cool, the've come a long way with the stability very clever and kinda creepy

yes it's weird seeing machines move similarly to biological creatures

sort of makes all those sci-fi shows with the incredibly powerful yet jerky robot people seem all the more retro, considering that with the present state of the art is moving toward mimicking biological fluidity of movement.

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My thoughts too


I think the well-armed, testosteroned-to-the-teeth survivalist guys
would have a ball smashing these things and re-egineering them
--- before turning them against their owners.

They'd be a great source of materials and weaponry

wonder if you can ride it like some crazy robot horse

didnt there used to be a cartonn where people had robot horses .. i know vampire hunter D and brave starr and cyborg horses .....

I can imagine they might send a pack of them strapped with bombs to an enemy location from several different directions. Would be a pretty terrifying thought.

Scared enemy soldier to giant robot crawley thing....

"don't taze me bro! Ahhhhhhhhh....."

This robot was designed to carry heavy loads across all types of terrain with troops in mind. It has NO weapons.
There are some automated and remote controlled attack/defense robots with machine guns attached to them already completed like this one in South Korea:
You have 30 seconds to comply..

Originally posted by Trauma
This robot was designed to carry heavy loads across all types of terrain with troops in mind. It has NO weapons.

but lets be honest the second the gears offloaded someones gonna get bored real fast then they will be having rodeo contests for a bit of a laugh

Will these robots be able to cope with shocking puddles?

I'd just kick its legs off and then rip out the wires.... Or smash it up with a hammer or something.

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As people have said, the way its manages to retain its balance is simply amazing. I agree with Barathrum, its very strange to see a robotic system moving in ways similiar to a biological creature - however I suppose this is what the system has been modelled on.

Has anyone ever heard of the Cyberdyne Systems Corporation?