Autonomous Turret wielding biped bot

posted Nov 27th 2009 7:14am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: robots hacks

Pay close attention. At roughly 36 seconds we see Asimov’s laws going out the window. We’re pretty sure we saw this little autonomous battle bot take a shot at a human. We can’t tell for sure, but it looked like it enjoyed it too.

This bot is being built by [xdream] to compete in the Mech Warfare section of the Robo Games 2010. His target acquisition system and firing are completely autonomous. We think his motion is controlled by an operator though.

This little fellow may seem harmless enough, until you realize that those servos and guns could be replaced and this “little guy” becomes that “big fella”. That’s not anything the maker suggested, we’re just pointing out that a killer robot is only cute when it’s small.

[via BotJunkie]

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tagged: gun, robogames, turret

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i love autonomous guard bots :D

Posted at 7:28 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by monkeyslayer56

So much win :)

Posted at 7:58 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by cacovsky

I love how the ammo bin just falls off, like it’s not even attached.

Pretty damn cool, though.

Posted at 8:11 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by Patrick

now for the cat detection test

Posted at 8:11 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by risu

Cat detection test… Genius!

Personally i would a HUD visor with voice activated target acquisition and firing but meh, I’ll settle for cat detection!

The way he just switches it off and it flops down is brilliant. Almost terminator like in the way it slumps and rests, completely dead.

Posted at 8:29 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by Chris

For the milionth time Asimov’s 3 laws are an example of why such a system can’t be implemented.
I-Robot is a collection of short stories that show how these laws are a flawed concept.

Posted at 9:00 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by Hackius

http://www.gossipcraze.com/_mm/_d/_ext/39528/big_Mechwarrior%20501.jpg !!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully there are some improvements in the target acquisition. I highly suggest checkout out the discussion thread – http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=3640

Scroll down the page for an awesome video of the Mech looking pretty in front of the camera. I like the look of the Knight Rider style light, that things got some real personality there.

Posted at 9:03 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by Skitchin

Cat detection test!! Great, I was looking for something like this!

Posted at 9:15 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by liebesiech

Wow, my dad found out about this before I did. That’s a first.

Posted at 10:01 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by geeklord

Awesome, but being called a biped I thought it was gonna walk around and shoot things.

Posted at 10:36 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by mic

I like how they just had it target pink things… I’d lo\/e to see this thing in action at the mall! hahahaha.

Posted at 10:55 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by nachowarrior

EPIC FAIL at the end.

Posted at 11:34 am on Nov 27th, 2009 by mars

Now add squirrel and pigeon detection and replace the airsoft with CO2 pellet guns.

Posted at 1:18 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Nitori

Am I the only one worried why they chose to target pink things? I mean, it’s just a few steps until our robot overlords revolt and assume their dominance over humanity. First targeting “pink things” then calling us meatbags and before you know it we’ll be their slaves!

Posted at 1:23 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Finger

“Awesome, but being called a biped I thought it was gonna walk around and shoot things.”

Don’t tempt fate.

Posted at 2:29 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Shadyman

reading the comments here i remembered this:

http://xkcd.com/481/

…

Posted at 2:50 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by chris

That thing is awesome. Give it an IR targeting system, then build yourself an IR targeting laser and you’ve got a real military application there. HUD would also be acceptable, for remote ‘driving’.

@Chris
Man,I just wanted to know how babby was formed.

Posted at 2:56 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Spork

Yay! I love Mechwarrior.

Posted at 3:19 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by alpha

these are good for testing the targeting system, but id perfer something more along the lines of “code geas” as far as the controls.

were they have a pilot inside the mechwarriors.

like a car with a key to power on.
and like a pc with a Password to initialize its actions.

a terminal and several other remotes inside as well.

Posted at 5:08 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by vash

Am I the only one to notice that this is fake? Look very carefully at the video and you will see several frames where the pellet comes from a high downward tragectery from behind the robot. Someone off camera was popping the target with an airsoft gun…….lame!

Posted at 7:12 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by RPeach

CYLONS!

Posted at 9:13 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Theodore

Adjust your settings RPeach, the one that looked like it came from above was ricocheting from the target.

Posted at 11:29 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Coyotecom

@Rpeach, I dont think that it is fake. You are seeing the ricochet from missed pellets. I saw it too. Sometimes the bot misses and the pellets go off at a 45 degree angle away from the target, not towards it.

Posted at 11:30 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Mark

Does that bot seem homophobic to you?

Posted at 11:44 pm on Nov 27th, 2009 by Roeurn

Real men wear pink!

That’s why the robot doesn’t waste ammo shooting things that aren’t pink. Efficiency, you know!

Posted at 12:17 am on Nov 28th, 2009 by draeath

I liked the demo quite a bit, and yes was kinda shocked when it shot it’s handler too.

However the Robot Chicken-esque failure cascade at the end made it all okay at the end.

Posted at 5:23 am on Nov 28th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

omg he died!

Posted at 4:43 am on Nov 29th, 2009 by asd

@Finger

I prefer Ambulatory Bacon to meatbag :)

Posted at 8:59 pm on Nov 29th, 2009 by Karred

I hope the military is watching. We can send these to Afghanistan instead. Take ‘em out!

Posted at 9:44 am on Nov 30th, 2009 by Johnny Miller

I prefer the mech suit from district 9, although this is real so kudos.

Posted at 1:27 pm on Nov 30th, 2009 by The Hatchet

Awwww! It’s a baby ed-209!!!

Posted at 12:46 pm on Dec 2nd, 2009 by playaspec

see a more technical forum of this post here;
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=9652.0

Posted at 3:42 pm on Feb 2nd, 2010 by aesdghseth235

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