Boston Dynamics' DARPA funded robot. Watch how it regains balance after being kicked and on slippery ice patches. Stunning! Via Gizmodo
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CES, or the Consumer Electronics Show, is a trade show held in Las Vegas where new products are announced and demonstrated to the press. This year's CES just ended January 10th, and it looks like there was a small scandal that occurred.
I must have it!
And it's electric too...energy efficient and cool...
My friend John, a Nintendo aficionado, alerted me to this post at Gizmodo about the "AnatoWii." Kinda creepy, if you ask me. ;)
I love creative design. Here begins a new theme on Omni Brain.
Do you only have a small cabinet and need to fit in as many drinking tools as possible? Do you want to get sticky booze all over your house? This is for you!
That's some dog. Amazing. I suppose it's even useful right now with that payload. Lots of situations where you'd care if it's noisy.
Good post.
I'm seeing visions of Sarah Connor Chronicles here. Amazing AI to handle the ice and snow etc. I'm sure a quiet motor and some possible weapons are in the future then we can turn the dogs of war loose in Afgan and Irag... Maybe air drop a few on N. Calif while we are at it. ;-)
Does anybody else feel some uncanny valley from this? Thing kind of creeps me out.
OMG. I almost feel sorry for it when it slips! I can't shake the anthropomorphic impulse here.
It's like a headless dog walking forwards and backwards at the same time-
Creepy and too cool.