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2013-07-13 Science & Technology

Meet DARPA's Humanoid Robot That Could Someday Save You From A Crumbling Building

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Posted by Fred 2013-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Iff Hollyweird movies are correct, I predict this will not end well for humanity.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-07-13 01:00|| 2013-07-13 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Famous Last Words in the software biz: "But I tested it!"

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-13 01:42|| 2013-07-13 01:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Give it a few years and a robot like Atlas may be pulling survivors from tumbled buildings in post-earthquake scenarios.

...but only those survivors approved for removal by the gov't.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-13 05:33|| 2013-07-13 05:33|| Front Page Top

#4 ...properly screen against the donor lists.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-07-13 08:34|| 2013-07-13 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 If 'Atlas' had been on neighborhood watch, Trayvon would be alive today.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-13 09:45|| 2013-07-13 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 survive being knocked off balance by a 20-pound weight

Out here we call that a wind gust. Sounds like bucket brigade stuff. Skirmishers at best.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-07-13 10:19|| 2013-07-13 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 ...but only those survivors approved for removal by the gov't.

They've got a database.

It's mauve. That has the most power.
---Pointy Haired Boss

Posted by Fred 2013-07-13 10:25|| 2013-07-13 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Wahhahaha. Don't know about you Fred, but....you can have my Ames Iowa manufactured garden shovel when you pry it from my cold......

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-13 10:31|| 2013-07-13 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Or, possibly, be the cause of the building crumbling about you....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-07-13 10:58|| 2013-07-13 10:58|| Front Page Top

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