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Meet BIG DOG - your new postman

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One day you may see one of these walking up your street dropping off letters and parcels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6Dyma4KN8&feature=fvst

For a more complete description see:

BigDog - The Most Advanced Rough-Terrain Robot on Earth

http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html

>>BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics robots. It is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by an engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog has four legs that are articulated like an animal’s, with compliant elements to absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule; about 3 feet long, 2.5 feet tall and weighs 240 lbs.

[...]

The ultimate goal for BigDog is to develop a robot that can go anywhere people and animals can go. The program is funded by the Tactical Technology Office at DARPA.>>
Posted by stevenlmeyer, Sunday, 22 April 2012 3:02:27 PM
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Soon there will be no need for humans:)....then what?

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Posted by planet 3, Monday, 23 April 2012 12:15:01 AM
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quote..""Soon there will be no need for humans:)....then what?
""

the rich buy more robots
and tell them...what they want to..*make us do

their tax deductable too
but tip em over..what happens
going to be a lot of poeople not liking..the neo[new]..public service,method of delivery..and hurt the messanger]..

sop

the status
must retain its quo
Posted by one under god, Monday, 23 April 2012 7:21:36 AM
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Planet 3 wrote:

>>Soon there will be no need for humans:)....then what?>>

That may be more of an issue than you think:

See:

Rio Tinto approves driverless trains for Pilbara

http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/news/rio-tinto-approves-driverless-trains-for-pilbara

And:

Rise of the machines

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/rise-of-the-machines/story-e6frg6z6-1226291014017

>>IN Western Australia's dusty Pilbara region, fully laden robot trucks weighing as much as a fuelled A380 Airbus and as high as a two-storey building are working in mining pits, often within a few metres of people.

So far, it is just a trial. But it is working so well that, within three years, half the trucks working for the nation's biggest iron ore exporter - Rio Tinto - will be hauling the nation's main resource bounty without drivers.>>

We are only at the beginning of an automation revolution.
Posted by stevenlmeyer, Monday, 23 April 2012 7:53:56 AM
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Steven, very interesting, but I think I read the same thing, as your last post, about 30 years ago.

I know I was supposed to have an automatic self drive vacuum cleaner, a self drive car, & a maid, years ago.

I'm not too sure weather to be pleased or annoyed that all this stuff didn't appear as promised. I don't actually need any of it now either, but you could say the same about computers & mobile phones.

Still, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for my doggy postman.
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 23 April 2012 10:36:52 AM
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Fair enough Hasbeen but thirty years ago the sizeable insurance company for which I worked had about as much computing power as is to be found in an iPhone. And it filled an underground bunker.

Thirty years ago there were no driverless trucks and trains. There were also no semi-autonomous drones flying around killing people.

Thirty years ago the notion of replacing lawyers with software seemed ridiculous. Today… well see:

Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?_r=1

>>When five television studios became entangled in a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against CBS, the cost was immense. As part of the obscure task of “discovery” — providing documents relevant to a lawsuit — the studios examined six million documents at a cost of more than $2.2 million, much of it to pay for a platoon of lawyers and paralegals who worked for months at high hourly rates.

But that was in 1978. Now, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, “e-discovery” software can analyze documents in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost. In January, for example, Blackstone Discovery of Palo Alto, Calif., helped analyze 1.5 million documents for less than $100,000.>>

Thirty years ago there had been no DARPA urban challenge.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2007_Urban_Challenge

See also this must watch video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4A036o85u0

In Japan they're talking of robo-helpers for the elderly.

See this video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgfowy_robot-care-for-the-elderly_tech

The robot future is coming Hasbeen. It's just a couple of decades late.
Posted by stevenlmeyer, Monday, 23 April 2012 2:34:26 PM
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