METAL GEAR!?

DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">No, but close enough!</div>Guess you scifi guys might actually get to see your mechs if legged robotics keep going the way it is.
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  • J!J! NS2 Artist Join Date: 2004-11-14 Member: 32788Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    That is both awesome and seriously creepy.
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    I remember seeing this thing back a year or 2 ago, the video wasn't as impressive though. It doesn't seem to make quite the same terrible buzzing sound it did back then either.

    It's walking method seems so awkward though, like taking bigger strides would be so much more efficient...
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    as for the buzzing, sounds like a 2 stroke motor with no exhaust. Since its hooked up and quiet in some areas, i think its just a gas motor to run a generator for power. I'm sure if they made a elaborate exhaust system it would run quiet.
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    That droning noise coupled with the creepy walk makes it look like something out of a horror movie. Or Silent Hill.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    The way it took the kick in stride and managed to catch itself after slipping on the ice was incredible.
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  • remiremi remedy [blu.knight] Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
    edited March 2008
    I loved it's jump over the thing. The galloping looked seriously awkward, but the leap was awesome.

    I want my own robotic horse dog thing to ride into battle! I could wear armor and everything!
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  • SvenpaSvenpa Wait, what? Join Date: 2004-01-03 Member: 25012Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1673507:date=Mar 18 2008, 11:58 AM:name=Align)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Align @ Mar 18 2008, 11:58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673507"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That droning noise coupled with the creepy walk makes it look like something out of a horror movie. Or Silent Hill.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Add some smooth surface and texture and you got yourself a horror machine, I know I'd get scared.
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    That looks more like a Hunter than a D0g.


    I thought watching it slip around on ice was hilarious, and I'm not sure why.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Because it looked so real, I think. Watching people OR animals slip on ice is funny, and this looked exactly the way you'd expect it to. It pretty much reacted exactly the way you'd expect something of that leg structure, size and mass to react when slipping on ice.
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    Seeing that and some of the other situations, I wonder if its software actually knows it make use of the entire lower leg segment or whether that's just the way it happened. It looked purposeful to me some of the time.
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1673524:date=Mar 18 2008, 02:44 PM:name=Gwahir)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gwahir @ Mar 18 2008, 02:44 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673524"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Seeing that and some of the other situations, I wonder if its software actually knows it make use of the entire lower leg segment or whether that's just the way it happened. It looked purposeful to me some of the time.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    My guess is that the lower leg segment is a "just-in-time" kind of effort and is ignored in solution pathing unless things go horribly wrong.
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    my question is, what purpose does this serve? wouldn't treads get it over pretty much the same terrain?
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    edited March 2008
    sure, while knocking all the trees down too. (if it were that big)

    otherwise, meh.

    Legged creatures might be able to go over ditches that a tracked vehicle could not.

    I see this (once it's quieter) as an equipment carrier for a small squad.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1673534:date=Mar 18 2008, 08:10 PM:name=Gwahir)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gwahir @ Mar 18 2008, 08:10 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673534"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->[...]I see this (once it's quieter) as an equipment carrier for a small squad.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I had that exact same thought.
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    The Enrichment Center reminds you that Android Hell <b>is</b> a real place, where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    It DID jump over that patch of differently colored floor. Maybe once it's been developed some more it can gallop and jump over chasms like a horsie!
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1673540:date=Mar 18 2008, 03:59 PM:name=Align)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Align @ Mar 18 2008, 03:59 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673540"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It DID jump over that patch of differently colored floor.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Why are they teaching the robot to be OCD?

    Sure, now it's just avoiding the "wrong" color tiles, but eventually it'll be wearing tissue boxes on its feet and insisting that the coolant hose doesn't touch the oil hose...
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  • DominingDomining Join Date: 2007-09-27 Member: 62452Members
    This looks like two men carrying item X. The front one's walking backwards. Look at it again and think about it.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    It'll have to be two DAMN strong men if they can carry a 320 pound item X.
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  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->my question is, what purpose does this serve? wouldn't treads get it over pretty much the same terrain?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Well, yes, but we already have treads out there. This is an experimental prototype, and once it's fully developed it will be superior to treads. A good comparison to make is like treaded vehicles versus wheeled vehicles traveling on a clear road. Why invest in a treaded vehicle when a wheeled vehicle can do the traveling that much more efficiently and quickly? The same logic goes here. While a treaded vehicle would still out perform the quad-legged assembly, there are certain portions of terrain where it would not. We saw a demonstration here of a leap. It was far from "impressive" distance wise in terms of usefulness in the real world, but that shows the potential of the machine in the future where it may leap ten feet or more, whereas a treaded vehicle would either have to be a) massive or b) ...well, it would fall in the hole.

    So yes, the treads would go over the same terrain. But this machine can go over that terrain and <i>more.</i>
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  • La ChupacabraLa Chupacabra Join Date: 2008-02-25 Member: 63729Members
    mind-blowing thing, first thing that came to my head when I've seen it: dragoons from sc! ;p
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    i had to kep reminding myself it wasn't alive; especially at the slippy ice bit as everyone mentions. It was hard not to feel sorry for it and stuff. Heck I even imagined it having an expression of surprise when it started skidding about like that.

    As for what a legged thing could do that a treaded couldn't? while it's not in there a legged vehicle could descend ridges given enough development. In the same situation a treaded vehicle would just tumble and imagine if we can develop it to the point where it can leap up things? That's some serious mobility!

    As Haze says there's a lot legged could potentially do where treaded couldn't go.

    All that said I can't see legged vehicles ever being developed for humans to drive; if it was large enough to have a cockpit the driver would be probably be horrifically uncomfortable getting jostled about by the walking motion. Ridable like a horse? That could be do-able I guess =3
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    A vehicle intended for occupants would have more priority placed on a smooth ride. I hate to bring science fiction into this (no really, I do), but take Star Wars' AT-AT as an example.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    It's creepy at first, but then seeing it kicked and slipped made me a tad sad... poor thing.
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  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    I think by the time we have the quad legged (or more) design working well enough to consider putting people inside to pilot it like a car as opposed to riding it as a horse, we'll have developed suspension that can cushion what would be a very bumpy ride. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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