Step 1: Line up 23 Dutch lunatics in the middle of a road. Step 2: Get someone to drive a 62.3-ton Leopard tank at full speed on that road only to activate the emergency brakes just a few meters from the 23 lunatics. There’s no step 3. Just pray that you don’t end up with three thousand pounds of human jam.
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We’ve seen plenty of robots based on animal designs. Nature knows what it is doing after all. Researchers, much like leopards, don’t change their spots. They are still working on robot designs that will run us down and devour us. Like the Pneupard, a robotic leopard from Osaka University.
This robot is driven by compressed air. It is still a prototype, which is why this thing doesn’t seem very fast or certain on it’s feet. Plus, its front legs and spine are incomplete right now. Regardless, the artificial muscles that it sports are impressive and when this robot gets further along, it will be more nimble, I’m sure.
It’s movements were based on the movements of a cat walking on a treadmill. I’m guessing they’re not talking about these cats.
They are hoping that capturing movements this way instead of programming the system by hand will lead to a more authentic movements.
[via IEEE Spectrum via Geekosystem]
Just as we catch wind that Apple’s released the Gold Master version of Mountain Lion, the latest version of Chrome to hit the browser’s developer channel — that’s version 22.0.1201.0, for the record — isn’t so supportive of OSX 10.5 and lower. Perhaps Leopard enthusiasts should take this as a friendly nudge toward to wild, snowy world of 10.6.
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