I was gonna tell you to take it to the military thread, but this is just too weird and awesome not to have a thread of its own.
I mean, damn.
edited 5th Mar '12 6:38:16 PM by BestOf
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.This begs only one question. WHY?!
Holy Seleucid. :o That's kind of cool!
ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᓈᒻᒪᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅYeah, it's all cool till they discover morphing and time travel abilities.
It was an honorI'm kind of curious about what kind humanitarian efforts they'd use a robot cheetah for. And... why? Just why? This is some crazy military spending. >,< Still pretty cool though. I'll admit I pretty quickly thought of Cheetor from Transformers: Beast Wars.
I wonder how well it'll do against uneven terrain.
"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -DrunkscriblerianDrunky: Yeah, that was one of my first thoughts. :o Well, it's still being developed. Maybe they'll mix this with the Big Dog?
edited 5th Mar '12 6:58:50 PM by Zersk
ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᓈᒻᒪᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅWe now know how the world will end. It's just a matter of when.
edited 5th Mar '12 6:58:56 PM by RTaco
Yeah, sure, call me when they invent a robot Rhino...
Dammit, DARPA is trying to put military folk out of work. The fuckers.
Eh, I think Big Dog is more impressive than the Cheetah, honestly. If only because I'm so used to watching robots fall down hilariously.
I can only imagine how the meeting went to get the funding for this...
DARPA: Oh, the usual, just better computer tech, better vehicles, flesh-eating robots, b—
Government Man: Wait, what was that last one?
DARPA: Better vehicles?
edited 5th Mar '12 7:21:24 PM by 0dd1
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.You know DARPA, thanks for the Internet, stealth bombers, drones and all, but seriously, dafuq?
"Urge to thump... rising." -FighteerI can see the pitch now. "Oh, it is kind of like this:
But with robots".
Awesome, but:
Source for those?
It was awhile back, not sure I can find relevant articles, but here's a video of the robot (dubbed the Ecobot3)that can eat organics (it even poops!):
And my mind immediately went to the hound from Fahrenheit 451.
Truthfully I suspect half of DARPA's ideas and projects are for the lulzs.
Please.They are actually DEADLY serious when it comes to getting more robot drones on the land, sea, and air. In fact, the entire military-industrial agenda in the USA has shifted to "use robots as force multipliers". You heard Obama saying as much at his last state of the union, for example.
And the strategy does make sense - the USA will never be able to take on a country like China or India when you try and play a numbers game, not economically nor militarily. Sure, the USA still has plenty of soft power, and we will likely control the seas for some time to come, but if it came to some kind of a major land war in Asia or simply a more aggressive economic stance the USA could likely be crushed within a matter of years. So it comes down to finding a way to even the odds, and robots are the way to do just that.
Indeed.
Put some kind of skin over the Big Dog and people will start treating it like a pet, I bet.
So, it seems we're leaving behind the Age of Terrorism for the Age of Super villainy.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
It's your God, they're your rules, you go to hell." - Mark TwainWell, there are practical applications to be considered when considering the building of robots. A cat is rather smart among the animals so making a robot cat will get us ever closer to robots as smart as a human. A robot that eats organics can easily feed off the land. A robot that can run as fast as a cheetah would also use legs, which have some advantages over wheeled vehicles.
Of course, with man-eating robot cheetahs and Newt's support for a moonbase, I support this new supervillain direction for the United States.
Wizard Needs Food Badly"Gentlemen, the era of the rational is over. We need something our enemies will never see coming. Something so bizarre that enemy soldiers will run away in confused terror. Something so random that no rational being can look upon our creation and not think 'what the flying fuck?' Gentlemen, we need man-eating cheetah robots and we need them now."
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/05/10584819-robo-cheetah-sets-speed-record
DARPA has recently unveiled a robot capable of running down a man. Yes, I said RUNNING. Combine this with DARPA's other robot pet projects, a robot that can "eat" organics to power its fuel cells, and a machine brain the size of a cat's brain that is as smart as a cat (seriously, the DARPA challenge specifically mentions "cat" as its qualifier, both for intelligence level and size), there is only one terrible conclusion that can be made:
DARPA is hard at work perfecting cheetah-themed "hunter-killer" robots that feast on human flesh and know no fear nor remorse and cannot be stopped unless destroyed.
Or they simply see these projects as necessary for stopping the Chtorr.