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Tree Climbing Robot
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wed Mar 08, 2006 03:42 PM
from the bugbot-crawling-its-way-to-the-top dept.
from the bugbot-crawling-its-way-to-the-top dept.
galactic grub writes "New Scientist's new Tech Blog has an article about a remarkable, if slightly creepy, tree-climbing robot being developed by robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon and several other US Universities. The article comes complete with a video clip of it going up several different surfaces."
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Great... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great... (Score:5, Funny)
In a cavernous underground layer of course! Don't you watch movies?
You don't really have to worry anyways, they dont want to hurt you they just want to use you as a power source.
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Re:Great... (Score:5, Funny)
I must admit that I've always thought that you were really cute and that I would love to meet you, but I find I'm somewhat put off by your lack of knowledge about our language, and unfortunately, what it says about your level of education. I realize that you kept hearing a word in the movies and it sure sounded like 'layer', but you were actually hearing a completely different word; 'lair'. Wacky huh?
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Re:Great... (Score:4, Funny)
But you've got being right down to an art
You think you're a genius--you drive me up the wall
You're a regular original, a know-it-all
Okay, so you're a grammer nazi who understands homophones
That don't impress me much [cowboylyrics.com]
-- Shania
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Re:Great... (Score:4, Funny)
(I was really torn between that and suggesting that, like the original poster, you wanted to layer...)
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So, what happens when it gets stuck? (Score:5, Funny)
ObHHGG... (Score:5, Funny)
Creeping Tom (Score:5, Funny)
Or put a moveable camera on its head, make it climb your neighbor's house, and you will have the perfect 'Creeping Tom.'
Kill them now... (Score:5, Insightful)
Awesome! (Score:3, Insightful)
This is just what we need (Score:5, Funny)
...for when NASA launches a probe to Endor.
Follow up (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Follow up (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Follow up (Score:4, Funny)
Well the fineprint does say to call a doctor if it stays up for more than 4 hours.
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From the makers of BigDog (Score:5, Interesting)
There's also Rhex a six legged waterproof go anywhere robot.
more info at http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?sec
REAL robots don't climb trees... (Score:5, Funny)
Alternate Video Link (Score:4, Informative)
damn hippies (Score:5, Funny)
Is your time worth $2700 a minute? (Score:4, Insightful)
It would be nice if submitters would warn people when Flash is required so those of us who don't bother with that nonsense wouldn't waste our time.
I opened up the article, and read the brief blurb -- about 45 seconds.
I clicked on the YouTube link in the article, and saw the little Flashblock icon. I closed the window. Time -- about 5 seconds.
Are you really that upset that you lost less than a minute? Your stress level must be through the roof if you're so busy that you can't lose a minute, less than 5 seconds of which are actually spent identifying the Flash video.
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Re:Still can't beat the japanese (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure Japanese have developed some impressive robots, but I wouldn't call something like the ballroom dancing robot a great feat of technology. Japanese designers seem to go for flashy robots, putting immense effort in creating something that has little practical utility but creates quite a stir. One company developed a humanoid robot and then we see dozens of companies cloning the original concept.
The ones developed in the US and Europe tend to be developed for real world applications. They don't look pretty, but they get the job done, solving a specific challenge in the process.
Not to discredit what the Japanese are doing, as they certainly are innovating too, but there's no reason to put down this work just because it doesn't look like Honda's ASIMO.
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Re:Still can't beat the japanese (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Still can't beat the japanese (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Tree climbing robot for space exploration! (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:how? (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:it's an iguana (Score:5, Funny)
But apart from that it's quite hard to tell it apart from an iguana. It's quite obvious where they got their inspiration from.
Anyone saying otherwise has to be an iguana hating fanatic.
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