If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

[Ginger Yellow]

...then don't watch this

[Crusoe]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Wow. That's just cool.

[jason voorhees]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

That beats the Giant Spider Puppet I saw this morning.

Although it's not as high-tech as The World's Most Dangerous Killer Spider.

[jason voorhees]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

The DARPA robot dog slipping on ice for me is the most exhilarating 6 seconds of video that I've ever seen.

When my daughter was 2, she saw Asimo walking while holding a lady's hand. That was the game we played for the next few months, as she we'd walk and hold hands, only with walking like Asimo did with his smoothed-over herky-jerky movements. There was something that touched something primal inside of her with Asimo in that video, from the hand-holding to the running, to every movement he did.

The DARPA dog slipping on ice had the same primal effect on me.

I'm not sure if PBS video can work overseas, but the Phillip Dick robot featured on NOVA was pretty wild, especially when he says that he'll remember his human friends when robots take over the world and he'll take good care of them in his human zoo.

[Incandenza]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

JV, I started watching the Big Dog video while I had one of the Weeknd songs playing in another tab. It made for a strange an wonderful thing:

The flying robots have the potential to be the biggest Christmas toy of all time.

[Incandenza]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

From the people who brought you the Big Dog comes the headless robotic cheetah, which can hit 18mph.

[jason voorhees]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Sorry I missed that the first time, Inca. That was incredible. Especially if "it's okay" coming up as it stabilized itself.

[Incandenza]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Thanks. I think most anything would sound good behind the Big Dog slipping and stabilizing, though.

[Incandenza]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Cheetah can now run faster than Usain Bolt.

[ursus arctos]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Ferguson looks to sign robot cheetah for friendly against Real Madrid.

[WOM]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

That's not a cheetah. It's a dog. And this has military applications, of course. You can build a whole army of them, and they're relentless. And, in the night, they cross the dessert and savage the enemy as they sleep. But then they go rogue through a programming glitch. Or a traitorous army sargeant, maybe.

I'm going to write a novel around this called The Dogs of War.

If I get up the gumption, like.

[Reed John]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Those robot swarms will be our undoing. I'm sure of it. Imagine if they could make millions of them and then teach the machines to crank out new ones.

By the way, I know it's cliche now, but if ever there was a video that cried out for Ride of the Valkyries as background music, it's that one.

[Incandenza]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

They were all so cute and helpful in Batteries Not Included, though.

[WOM]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

So were the Mogwai, Inca. So were the Mogwai.

And then you fed one after midnight...

[Gangster Octopus]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Is that a late supper or a very early breakfast?

[Levin]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Supper? SUPPER? You class traitor.

[jason voorhees]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

See, my in-laws have a little Papillon dog. They leave these diaper pads all over the house, so I call her "Diaper Dog." I ended up singing a song called "Diaper Dog" when I used to change my infant's diapers, and needlesstosay whenever I see this thread title I start singing it.

[Ginger Yellow]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

At last somebody is taking the robot menace seriously. Honestly, though, I'd rather see people focus on robot/AI ethics, problems with which are probably going to crop up a lot sooner than existential threats to humanity.

[Gangster Octopus]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

When did the three Laws Of Robotics become four?

[linus]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

The robots are not going to get very far as long as Microsoft is running their systems, I mean what kind of a revolution are they going to foment when it takes them four and a half minutes just to boot up?

[RobM]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

10^7 guests wrote: Supper? SUPPER? You class traitor.

Now we'd better quantify what he was saying here exactly. If he meant a cup of tea with buttered digestive biscuits then supper would be a perfectly acceptable term for this.

Anything else and it's the guillotine for GO.

[Levin]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

GO, I think that the Oth law was in pretty early. So you have the three and then the Zeroth Law.

Edit: This is just a kit robot! Creepy as hell.

[Gangster Octopus]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Ta, 10. We didn't learn the 0th law at school.

[Gangster Octopus]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Oh, and by the way Rob, I'm middle-class'n'proud...

[Ginger Yellow]

If you thought that DARPA robot dog was scary...

Flee! Flee while you still can!