Not that I'm obsessed with futuristic miltary tech these days...it's just, there seems to be a lot of it coming out of the woodwork lately. (begs the question as to what contract tenders are being offered behind the scenes right now)
So here's another neat/weird/scary/omg-its-head-is-a-warning-light-like-the-Robocop-prototype example of what developments are making press. The headliner is Boston Dynamics, a 'friendly' company that does robotic-type stuff.
We've seen it all before a.k.a. that little Honda guy...but wait, no you haven't. Check out the video on the source article and you may just feel a hair standing up on the back of your neck. This time, the robot is seemingly all-too capable of pretty much any typical human movement and at speed. There are safety tethers present but throughout the video there's almost zero tension on them meaning that this prototype is the closest thing we've seen yet to a fully-operational bi-pedular machine. Machine for what? -well that's the real question. The U.S. Army (contract behind the prototype) claims it's for situations too dangerous for humans such as chemical attacks, firefighting, etc where the 'Petman' would be used to exercise search and rescue functions in such conditions.
Yeah.....right.
I just hope it's not addicted to 'Nuke.'
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