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Robots
transientP:
i find anything that 'festo' makes very interesting.
they model their bots after natural animals / systems.
there are robotic jellyfish, penguin-like swimmers, air-jellys, elephant trunks and even some robotic human-like arms.
go on youtube and search 'festo' if interested..
Ellipse:
Petman is frightening :O. Good catch.
transientP:
'petman'.. indeed.
and also the first time i saw 'bigdog' i shuddered.
i do hope the application of these kinds of bots will be limited to helping people move their furniture.........
Ellipse:
Cheetah, created by Boston Dynamics, financed by the Pentagon is officially the new fastest robot: 29Km/h / 18miles/h.
http://youtu.be/d2D71CveQwo
bngenoh:
--- Quote from: Ellipse on March 06, 2012, 10:09:36 PM ---Cheetah, created by Boston Dynamics, financed by the Pentagon is officially the new fastest robot: 29Km/h / 18miles/h.
http://youtu.be/d2D71CveQwo
--- End quote ---
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.
The way events are unfolding though this present "civilization," doesn't need anything so flashy to destroy itself, although it could help.
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