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"Robots Rising" on PBS

iDaveiDave Posts: 252
edited 2010-10-31 03:24 in Robotics
For those of you interested in robots, and I think there's a few of you...Miles O' Brien (the ex-space correspondent for CNN) did a nice fun piece and posted it today.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour#p/u/0/-6GjUKyv-qo

Comments

  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2010-10-30 09:37
    Cool! Thanks for posting this iDave!
  • iDaveiDave Posts: 252
    edited 2010-10-30 13:41
    Here's some additional footage focusing on Big Dog. I swear the footage of Big Doggie trying to regain it's balance on the ice is the craziest walking robot video of all time!...it would have laid you & I flat out...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFF7aaI0wO8
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2010-10-30 23:42
    Nice vidz, iDave!

    There's no shortage of gag Big Dog videos made my two guys in black tights. At first I thought this was one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0s7aRUIoTw but it's real.
    Shows Big Dog on the beach in Thailand, in the water. I cringe when I think of sand & seawater in a nice machine like that.

    I cringe just the same when I watch this guy driving his $26K iBot wheelchair in the Florida surf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oASAxTw-htM OK, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but why not do that in a used $5000 electric wheelchair or ATV and pocket the $21,000 difference?
  • iDaveiDave Posts: 252
    edited 2010-10-31 03:24
    It's Big Dog's vacation video!

    ...good to see he's gettin' some time away from those icy boston winters!
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