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PETMAN the latest leggy lovely from Boston Dynamics
There's a tech firm called Boston Dynamics that is responsible for some pretty freaky military hardware — most notably, the famous BigDog. And this is their latest development: PETMAN, (note to readers: not to be confused with Le Petomane) a two-legged robot whose role has more to do with fashion than fighting.
Although you may think that PETMAN is one step on from those exoskeleton suits that beg one question — man, or automaton? — you'd be wrong. Unlike BigDog, PETMAN is merely a testing device for chemical warfare suits. It can trot at 3.2 miles per hour, even staying on its feet when shoved from behind, and also has the capacity to crawl and even sweat to order. Still in the Boston Dynamics labs for the moment, PETMAN is expected to have its fun in the sun in 2011.
By classy at 6:38 AM ON 10/27/09
finally an american bipedal robot!!!!!!!! tired of our suck wheeled robots and wowee crappy toys.. we finally have something that can walk to compete with the japanese
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By Dark Stanley at 9:42 AM ON 10/27/09
Cool another step closer to Metal Gear Rex or a Gundam, iam not picky either both are badass.
By Bodak at 12:07 PM ON 10/27/09
Where can I get a pair of those shoes? Seriously though, this is awesome. Now if they only made a home-kit, it'd be perfect...
By PTRICKY at 2:40 PM ON 10/27/09
AT-ST, here we come
By Twixed at 3:03 PM ON 10/27/09
Metal Gear?
By thisisonlyatest at 3:06 PM ON 10/27/09
I'm scared... It won't be long until they mount machine guns to these and they go on a rampage emptying belt after belt of ammo into all humans within line of sight...
Dark Stanley:
Aren't Gundam like mech suits from that show I never watched? And Metal Gear Rex wasn't autonomous either... It seems to me they both had to be controlled by a human pilot. If that's the case, we'll be ok, because we can use the non-autonomous suits to fight off the autonomous robot armies of the future.
By Dark Stanley at 11:01 AM ON 10/28/09
Actually in the Metal Gear solid for PS3 the scaled down version of M. Rex was the Metal Gear Gekko it was autonomous, and as for gundam while yes the gundams were piloted there were other mecha that were AI controlled.Not to get off topic just trying to clarify.
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Actually in the Metal Gear solid for PS3 the scaled down version of M. Rex was the Metal Gear Gekko it was autonomo...More »