According to the project team’s website, the robot employs a fast-moving impeller which is capable of generating a partial vacuum. The site claims to achieve an adhesion force of 40 Newtons [...]
Ellipse said:Sirius, feel free to put the link without the underscore when it's not a disinfo site :).
Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/darpa-ostrich-robot/Today’s robots move about as fast as your grandma’s morning mall-walking group. Tomorrow’s robots will move as fast as Usain Bolt — all thanks to limbs modeled on ostrich legs.
That’s exactly the point, according to the Darpa-funded researchers behind a collaborative effort underway at MIT and the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). Only one year into a four-year research contract, the team is showing off stunning results that are expected to produce the fastest, most agile ‘bot ever. He’s called FastRunner, and he’ll zip along at 10 times the speed of a standard mobile robot, which clocks a mere 3 miles per hour.
“We’re using principles found in biology to build efficiency and speed right into the robot,” Johnny Godowski, a research associate at IHMC, tells Danger Room. “And we’re confident that this will open up the possibility for humanoid robots that are useful in all sorts of situations — military for one, but also fire rescues or natural disasters, for example.”
Already, the team has developed a simulation of FastRunner’s eventual capabilities and a full test leg that can zip along at 27 miles an hour — the same pace as Usain Bolt’s record-setting 2009 sprint. Eventually, they hope to see the ‘bot hit speeds in excess of “30, 40, 50 miles an hour,” according to Dr. Russ Tedrake at MIT.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056144/Meet-Petman--legged-human-sized-war-droid-press-ups.html-Robot 'first' to walk like a human
-Can withstand hard shove without losing balance
-Built so it 'sweats' under pressure
It swings its arms and moves its legs just like the soldiers it is meant to mimic.
The PetMan robot created by Boston Dynamics is designed for military use - but don't expect to see its human-like gait treading across a war zone any time soon.
Yeish, can you say distopian future. The thing that comes to mind with all this techno wizardry, is what the C's have said about our technology eventually gaining sentience, and also that the 3rd catastrophe is what eventually did Atlantis in and that 3rd catastrophe was precipitated by the Atlantean's own crystal technology attaining sentience. Think about it, a civilization that was able to recover after an entire planet entered it's solar system, passing close to it's home planet, was destroyed by it's own creations. That is of course if you take Atlantis as described by the C's and others as having a high chance of existing in our recent past.Ellipse said:Cheetah, created by Boston Dynamics, financed by the Pentagon is officially the new fastest robot: 29Km/h / 18miles/h.
http://youtu.be/d2D71CveQwo