Now imagine it with eight legs. Or eight legs and eight arms... yeesh.

Yikes! The future is looking scary!

This is how I plan to commute to and from work some day.

I think you misquoted that, shouldn't it read, ""The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System, a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. When fully developed the system will be capable of draining tax-dollars at a rate impossibe for current technologies to match."

This thing has Congressional Pork all over it. If they could just cut all the utterly stupid defense contracts like this one the US economy might have a fighting chance.

Now Imagine an arsenal of a GAU-8 cannon, 2, 50 cal's, rocket launchers, flame thrower. and anything else the military will attach to the damn thing. Look out Wall Street!

There's also footage of DARPA's BigDog Beta

Not very stealthy, is it? Imagine approaching an enemy camp...


Alphadog: [STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!...]

Soldier: {quietly} "Alphadog! Shhhhhh! Quiet..."

Alphadog: [STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!...] "AFFIRMATIVE!" [STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!...]

Soldier: {whispering} "Alphadog... shhhhh! Uhhh, I mean... Alphadog, initiate Stealth Mode"

Alphadog: [STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!...] "AFFIRMATIVE! INITIATING STEALTH MODE!" [STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!...]

Soldier: {whispering desperately} "Alphadog, I told you to initiate Stealth Mode! You are going to give away our position!"

Alphadog: [STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!...] "AFFIRMATIVE! STEALTH MODE ACTIVATED UPON RESTART!" [STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!...]

Soldier: {looks at soldier #2} "WTF?!"

Soldier #2: "Windows XP"

Really dude? This technology could be incredibly useful. I wouldn't cast it off like you have.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

This thing has Congressional Pork all over it. If they could just cut all the utterly stupid defense contracts like this one the US economy might have a fighting chance.

Awesome, millions of dollars to build a horse. /FACEPALM

>> ^ColHrFrumpyPants:

Awesome, millions of dollars to build a horse. /FACEPALM
But a horse don't have backwards facing knees!

Does this really take that much imagination to see the brilliance?

I mean, its a very fast robot running across unsteady terrain... with batteries and shielding it could be running and carrying items through nuclear radiation, through a war zone, ... on Mars!

LOL - haven't laughed that hard at an internet video in a while.
>> ^mxxcon:

There's also footage of DARPA's BigDog Beta

>> ^MarineGunrock:

LOL - haven't laughed that hard at an internet video in a while.
>> ^mxxcon:
There's also footage of DARPA's BigDog Beta


and see how much this video is spot on, here's the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

> This is how I plan to commute to and from work some day.

This is how I plan to crush my enemies and make their wives lament.

Too much caffeine.

Mecha. Mecha. MECHA. This is the beginning, people! Prepare your ER PPCs and LRMs!

Tanks can't couldn't climb mountains.

this is necessary for Defense why ..... There is no reason for this weirdo pack dog to be developed by our military. Air and sea superiority, which we have, takes care of moving supplies. The reasons why we would need this machine are basically for post-apocalypse, so I'd like them to come out and say what is really on their minds here... this isnt for outer space its for this planet...



the darpa exo skeleton that is like the one in Alien, now that has uses for actual people, not targets in a war or scarce resources in toxic environments... or drone wars against "resistance fighters".

paranoid sundays!

Didn't I kill a bunch of these in half-life 2?