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Title: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Dave W on October 05, 2013, 02:31:40 PM

From the YT description: "WildCat is a four-legged robot being developed to run fast on all types of terrain. So far WildCat has run at about 16 mph on flat terrain using bounding and galloping gaits. The video shows WildCat's best performance so far. WildCat is being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA's M3 program..."

Eerie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Highlander on October 05, 2013, 04:14:26 PM

Hmm... they can mimic a cat's movements... science marches on... they'll be telling us they can land a man on the moon next...

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: gweimer on October 05, 2013, 05:46:27 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZKITq_2ORw

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: exiledarchangel on October 06, 2013, 02:23:11 AM

It walks like a cat, but sounds like a chainsaw? Run people, its a trap!

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on October 06, 2013, 11:19:11 AM

That robot makes me want to invest in some large caliber rifles.

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Highlander on October 06, 2013, 12:32:28 PM

Plating, armoured, for the use of...

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on October 06, 2013, 11:06:29 PM

Enough mass traveling at enough velocity will eventually negate ANY armor and that thing or any version of it will have to be lightweight (in the category of armored vehicles). I doubt in the next 50 years any version of that thing will be able to take a hit from a rifle chambered in anything 7.62mm or above and keep working. With the proliferation of .50 cal /12.7mm (and thereabouts) sniper rifles in the US civilian population, at least THAT thing won't have a "civilian use."

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Highlander on October 08, 2013, 04:04:53 PM

I'll match your Wildcat and raise you one Lego Tarkus...

(http://bullmurph.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tarkus1.jpg)

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: uwe on October 10, 2013, 01:53:32 PM

I'm not sure whether it has yet reached the elegance of the original ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDiL4YSNxwc

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: chromium on October 10, 2013, 02:53:05 PM

I'll take one when they come out with the turbo version  ....assuming I can strap a saddle on and ride it.  I wonder if this is considered "hybrid" enough to get me access to the HOV lane during rush hour?

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Denis on October 10, 2013, 06:17:52 PM

Quote from: CAR-54 on October 08, 2013, 04:04:53 PM

I'll match your Wildcat and raise you one Lego Tarkus...

(http://bullmurph.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tarkus1.jpg)

I want one of those!

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: clankenstein on October 10, 2013, 08:33:13 PM

shouldnt that guy be holding a ripper not a sword?

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Blackbird on October 11, 2013, 05:59:32 AM

But can it use the litter box and not pick the furniture?

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: uwe on October 11, 2013, 10:13:34 AM

Quote from: clankenstein on October 10, 2013, 08:33:13 PM

shouldnt that guy be holding a ripper not a sword?

Welcome back my friend to the Legos that never end?

Title: Re: Introducing WildCat
Post by: Highlander on October 12, 2013, 12:16:01 PM

Leo Lego Fender anyone ... ?

(http://images.mocpages.com/user_images/56253/1371745370m_SPLASH.jpg)