Robot Suit etc
Just came a cross some pictures related to the robot video in one of my previous blogs. Apparent the fighting machine itself is remotely controlled by someone wearing a “robot control suit”!
Source: http://isobe.typepad.com/robotphotos/
Here’s another “robot suit” concept but instead of being a sensor suit for controlling a remote robot, it is used to assist human being carry out heavy duty tasks. I believe the US Army also has a working prototype of a similar suit which I probably read about on Wired but it looked like a distance prototype back then: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/ironmen.html But the Japanese counter part looks pretty real:
Source: http://www.thegreenhead.com/technology/2005/06/hal-5-robot-suit-enhances-human-power.php
Human are not the only thing cloned into robots. Here’s are two more REALLY cool video of actual (future) millitary animals:
The horse/dog: http://www.bostondynamics.com/dist/BigDog_Feb-26-2006.wmv
The “roach”: http://www.bostondynamics.com/dist/mpeg/RiSE_Aug-8-2005.wmv
These Boston Dynamics’ robots are almost identical to some old robots we used to see at the MIT AI Lab. Upon some investigation, I’ve confirmed that the founder Marc Raibert was indeed a EE/CS professor at MIT from 1986-1993.
If you are into general robotics, here’s a fine blog that has a lot of cool robotic news: