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Have you all seen this freakish thing?

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Level42:
Hey, so far we've put guns on anything that moves .... :D

Don't you get it, this is just a model. The real thing will be at least as large as an AT-AT....


I bet this one was the first (looks even creepier to me:)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYptK21vAgQ&feature=related[/youtube]

Level42:
But the scariest is this one: this looks SO real:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9F6WCuYhk[/youtube]


 :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Level42 on March 25, 2008, 06:18:21 pm ---
They will have to do something about the sound if they want to put it in operation though......

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The sound thing is interesting.  I wonder if it's using an internal combustion engine or something.  The one in the studio, when it's hooked up to wires, is super quiet.  It's only the ones outside that make that awful sound.

whammoed:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 25, 2008, 08:40:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on March 25, 2008, 06:18:21 pm ---
They will have to do something about the sound if they want to put it in operation though......

--- End quote ---

The sound thing is interesting.  I wonder if it's using an internal combustion engine or something.  The one in the studio, when it's hooked up to wires, is super quiet.  It's only the ones outside that make that awful sound.

--- End quote ---
Sounds like a 2 cycle engine.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 25, 2008, 08:40:01 pm ---The sound thing is interesting.  I wonder if it's using an internal combustion engine or something.  The one in the studio, when it's hooked up to wires, is super quiet.  It's only the ones outside that make that awful sound.

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Educated guess?  Internal combustion engine.  Probably a high end model airplane engine.  Its either driving a compressor or hydraulic pump; the joint actuators are too quick and strong for a servomotor that would fit in the space allowed.

I suspect its pneumatic - the tethered one gets its air supply from a remote compressor; ergo the silence.

It is impressive.  There's probably multiple 3 axis accelerometers and a gyro or two, all fed into three or four computers.

Guy I bump into at the robotics competitions I attend is letting DARPA pay for his PhD.  Hes working on artificial muscles.  Scary smart guy.

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