Re: OT: The Robots are coming.

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

Link?
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1. Did it operate from on board power, or was it cabled?
2. Did it use on-board computers, or was that also cabled?
3. Could it walk over rough, unstable surfaces, as this one does?
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The earliest bipedal robot I can find is actually Chinese, from 2000,
called Xianxingzhe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBxHOM-NmM

ARPA built a walking robot in 1968 which was pneumatically-powered by
an external compressor and had a human being operating the legs.  It
was the beginnings of a program to build a walking vehicle for the Army
to use in mountainous terrain.  I don't think it ever got beyond the point
of a single test prototype, which is now at the Army Transportation Museum
at Ft Eustis, next to some hovercraft.
--scott

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