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Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: charlesoakwood on November 10, 2011, 10:25:54 PM

Title: robot
Post by: charlesoakwood on November 10, 2011, 10:25:54 PM

At the link from Regneration (http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,3830.msg42365.html#msg42365) this came up:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/drummk (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/drummk)
The military’s taken plenty of big steps towards fortifying battlefields with robot armies. Now, they’re taking a giant leap.

One that’s twenty-four feet high, to be specific. That’s the elevation achieved by the tiny, jumping Sand Flea robot, which will for the first time be battle-tested in Afghanistan this coming winter.

Created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Boston Dynamics — the latter being the same renowned robotics shop that brought us AlphaDog and PETMAN — the Sand Flea was initially commissioned by Darpa, the Pentagon’s cutting-edge research arm, in 2009.

RAW: Robot can hop over HIGH fences (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjANAebfs6Q#)

and I followed it here:

BigDog Evolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqMVg5ixhd0#ws)


AlphaDog Proto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbZrQp-HOk#ws)

DARPA is one of the govts best bangs for the buck.  Of course those crafty
military persons insert competition and freedom of action and $$ pay off to
the winner.  Very capitalistic some of these military guys.

Title: Re: robot
Post by: Libertas on November 10, 2011, 10:52:01 PM

I'm still waiting for combat exoskeletons to be perfected, I'd take out a second mortgage to get that...let the bank keep the house when the SHTF!

Title: Re: robot
Post by: Pandora on November 11, 2011, 10:11:23 AM

CO, that thing reminds me of AMIE, the robot in "Red Planet".

Title: Re: robot
Post by: BMG on November 11, 2011, 10:24:13 AM

Pretty snazzy stuff!  ;D