"CHIMP Robot in Military Competition" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 12 Mar 2013 9:15 a.m. PST |
A team from Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) is building a human-size robot that moves, not by walking, but on rubberized tracks on the extremities of each of its four limbs. With this unique robot the CMU team hopes to win the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Robotics Challenge…. link
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 MrHarold  | 12 Mar 2013 9:17 a.m. PST |
When I go to the image URL it works, but it shows a broken picture in your post. Edit… now it works, for some reason. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 12 Mar 2013 9:30 a.m. PST |
Ah, that means their site has it set so that you can only see the image if you are on their website. But, once you've seen it there, you can see it here, too… |
| boy wundyr x | 12 Mar 2013 10:48 a.m. PST |
In four-legged mode it kind of makes me think of the robot Daggit from the original Battlestar Galactica. In two-legged mode it sort of reminds me of Short Circuit. Irregardless, I welcome our robot overlords. |
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