2004-Apr-22, Thursday

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[livejournal.com profile] morganjaffit? You wanted walking robots? This is seriously cool stuff. 5 metre tall bipedal robot, built by a retired Mini engineer. The scariest video is the one of it actually catching and stopping a fast moving (I think it was doing 20 to 40 km/h!) rover. As in, lean in, grab the bull bar and the roof, and stop it dead, without falling over. Holy moly. That plus the following sentence... "I've had offers of assistance, but ethically they involved applications that I'm not comfortable with." Hooray for ethical engineers! Anyway, go check it out. (Edit: Forgot to mention, you probably need Quicktime installed.) (Edit: Damn, it's a hoax.)

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/.

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