Astonishing, disturbing achievement

[ciphergoth]

The point about 35 seconds in tore my heart out in two different ways. Amazing. (Propogated from dennyd who got it from cavalorn)

PS see some of you at Orbital today!

Comments

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

Man. It is not at all a logical reaction that I now want to set up the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Walking Robots.

[hieroglyphe.livejournal.com]

It's like a baby AT-AT!

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

It is a baby At-At.

[hieroglyphe.livejournal.com]

Where's its head?

[juudes.livejournal.com]

It took me a couple of minutes to realise that this wasn't just two students dressed up as a bluebottle!

[henry_the_cow]

Wow. I had no idea that robotics had advanced so far.

[andrewducker]

Ha! If you read my journal you'd have seen it days ago :->

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Hi Paul,

I saw you in the Real Ale bar at the Raddisson. ButI was half asleep and in a different room.

I'll say hello some other time.

Alex (BFC, friend of elfy, player of scrabulous with spikeylady

[meico.livejournal.com]

Definite way into the "uncanny valley" there... It is amazing how natural its movements look when it is slipping on the ice. It made me a little sad when it slipped- like watching a little lamb slip.

Boston Dynamics is definitely doing very neat stuff. I can't wait to see this a few generations from now.

[postmodern-minx.livejournal.com]

I'd say it needs to work those quads a bit more, i mean it wasn't very butch was it?

Are there accessories that go with it? Ringtones for example?

Perhaps if David Beckham were to advertise it.

pm

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's for getting supplies to Marines in mountainous areas, at a cost of a cool half a million dollars more than a mule. But Mules need a teamster (using the old meaning of the word!) and that's a potential body-bag. Or local labour, and a potential thief, terrorist, or refugee (the worst sort: the ones who are entitled to a green card after assisting 'our' armed forces and face a death sentence after the marines are helicoptered out and the country faces the usual collapse into civil war)... But the obvious silver lining is that it doesn't matter if foreign people are killed.

Obvious, but maybe not quite true. What does matter is that one or two or a dozen dead donkeys don't generate millions of dollars of revenue for General Dynamic, or Boeing, or whichever prominent campaign donor ends up manufacturing the things.

I like the technology. I am, at heart, a geek. But I am becoming a realist in my old age.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

It may not have a realistic military use. But it's still very, very cool.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

~waves~ ~adds~

Good to see you again!