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Old 03-22-2008, 02:12 PM   #1
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If it walks like a dog...

It could be a robot.
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Old 03-22-2008, 02:25 PM   #2
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Re: If it walks like a dog...

I don't think it walks like a dog, and I was unimpressed by the first 30 seconds where it's walking in the woods, but the video quickly improved when we saw the "dog" resist a kick to the side, regain its balance after slipping on ice, and jumping over a designated No Touch zone.

I think the military would be most interested in its ability to handle rough terrain and to infiltrate enemy bases with payloads (i.e. bombs) attached, but that was perhaps the most unimpressive part of the entire video -- sped up to 1.5x speed, the "dog" still took for-fucking-ever to walk over that pile of concrete blocks.

And if they can't find a way to make this "dog" quieter, the enemies it is to be used against would hear it coming. I guess you could always give it optical sensors and tell it to auto-detonate if it detects a human has spotted it, but ...

They've got a ways to go. Good progress, though.
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Old 03-22-2008, 02:36 PM   #3
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Re: If it walks like a dog...

I don't have working speakers, so I wasn't able to hear any noise it made. How loud was it exactly?
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Old 03-22-2008, 03:19 PM   #4
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Re: If it walks like a dog...

It sounds like a weedwhacker, but is slightly quieter. Exact same noise, but maybe 10 dB quieter. (It's hard to tell how much the camera dampened the audio it was picking up.) You'd definitely hear the dog in an open forest from 10 meters away, but might not think much of it and would probably need the forest to be relatively quiet. From 5 meters away, you'd probably begin to realize that something is very wrong because no animal sounds like a weed whacker and you don't see any human being nearby (a) using a chainsaw on trees or (b) using a weed whacker on weeds. You'd begin to look around and notice the dog approaching you.

Granted, 99% of warfare bombs have a blast radius greater than 5 meters, so I guess i's a moot point if the dog is going to be used by the military for remote detonations.
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Old 03-22-2008, 05:41 PM   #5
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Re: If it walks like a dog...

That was pretty amusing but that buzzing noise as was already stated is both a dead give away and really annoying after a while
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