Harmless Robot..Deadly Outcome

[SAMSON123]

On the surface this seems harmless...just an annoying robot dancing and singing...that is until you realize the repercussions of having a robot that is growing eerily closer to being HUMAN in movement. For many years this has been the goal of both the medical and military industry. The ability to transplant limbs to make a amputee functional again and the military's ideal of making a soldier who is strong, doesn't get tired, is heartless and emotionless with the ultimate killing ability. Here we have a robot that for all intents and purposes is mechanically human. Notice the fluid movements, the flexibility of the joints and more amazing the BALANCE AND CONTROL. Before long these things will not being singing and dancing, but will be patrolling the streets of cities everywhere in the world and on teh field of combat in wars and occupations.

Orwellian world here we come

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8416665/22510245

[24KT]

On the surface this seems harmless...just an annoying robot dancing and singing...that is until you realize the repercussions of having a robot that is growing eerily closer to being HUMAN in movement. For many years this has been the goal of both the medical and military industry. The ability to transplant limbs to make a amputee functional again and the military's ideal of making a soldier who is strong, doesn't get tired, is heartless and emotionless with the ultimate killing ability. Here we have a robot that for all intents and purposes is mechanically human. Notice the fluid movements, the flexibility of the joints and more amazing the BALANCE AND CONTROL. Before long these things will not being singing and dancing, but will be patrolling the streets of cities everywhere in the world and on teh field of combat in wars and occupations.

Orwellian world here we come

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8416665/22510245

I think it will be a while before they produce one that can pass for human.

[SAMSON123]

I think it will be a while before they produce one that can pass for human.

Keep this in mind...what is presented to the public is far behind in technology to what your government has and is using in the military. Flat screen TVs, Flash players, processing speed measured in tetrahertzs,  has been in use by governments possession for years even decades in some instances, yet these things are barely being rolled out to the masses now. So while that robot presented to the public in this video is performing simple yet still EXTREMELY COMPLICATED moves for a robot (one of the big issues with robots is getting them to stand freely and to move fluidly without toppling over...which this has achieved very well) what the government has is light years ahead of what you see here. Robocop anyone?

[24KT]

Keep this in mind...what is presented to the public is far behind in technology to what your government has and is using in the military. Flat screen TVs, Flash players, processing speed measured in tetrahertzs,  has been in use by governments possession for years even decades in some instances, yet these things are barely being rolled out to the masses now. So while that robot presented to the public in this video is performing simple yet still EXTREMELY COMPLICATED moves for a robot (one of the big issues with robots is getting them to stand freely and to move fluidly without toppling over...which this has achieved very well) what the government has is light years ahead of what you see here. Robocop anyone?

I hear ya, ...I still think it'll be ages before they solve that problem.

As for Robocop. I worked on that series. They had a crappy craft services table.