While we wish colleges and universities competed more on academics, we can’t deny that more people are interested in their athletics programs. Oregon State, however, has done a little of both since their bipedal robot, Cassie, became the world’s fastest bipedal robot according to the Guinness Book of World Records. You can see a video of the 100 meter run below, but don’t blink. The robot turned in a time of around 25 seconds.
Impressive, but still not on par with Usan Bolt’s time of under 10 seconds for the same distance. If you want to see what that would be like, try running the long way across a football field and see how far you get in 25 seconds. There isn’t a lot of technical detail about the robot, but you can intuit some things from watching it go. You can also find a little more information on the robot and some of its siblings on the University’s website.
If you think robots won’t ever run as well as humans, we used to think the same thing about playing chess. This doesn’t look like we normally envision a bipedal robot. Then again, there isn’t any reason robots have to look, or move, like we do.
Put a turret on it.
Maybe a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range
That line was always odd to me, since 40 Watts is not a whole lot.
If you take a machine gun with a 600 rounds per minute fire rate, and 2 kJ muzzle energy, that comes out at 20 kilowatts of power down the range.
But if it is a really thin laser, the W/m² could exceed a bullet?
He meant 40 Jigawatt range. In the future they just say watt because everyone knows you need 40 Jigawatts to run a phased plasma rifle duh.
And a wookie peluche.
Does the world really need a robotic headless chicken?
More like ostrich, they race those in harness from a sulky. Put hot pink feathers on the body but leave the naked legs.
How else are people in the future going to get food delivered to their homes? Take off their VR helmet and go to the grocery store?
Should have been disqualified for leaving it’s (their? her? his?) lane. What are the pronouns for a robot?
The proper pronoun for a machine is “it.”
It should have been disqualified for leaving its lane.
“It’s” mean “it is.” The possessive form of “it” is “its.”
yep, your write. I guess their is a reason Im and engineer
Bruised my shoulder ROFL’ing! Thanks!
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It’s a Robotech Battle pod. Zentradi are at it again! Just wait until Lord Ingus and Feff comes!
To me it looks like half a Locust from Battletech.
Imagine riding this to work, like a giant robotic ostrich.
Hopefully the military won’t be mounting machine guns to these Amy time soon.
not to diminish the accomplishment, but there’s a guy with a remote control keeping it in the lane. all it’s doing is running and turning on command, not interacting with its surroundings.
I wonder if adding arms would help to speed it up?
Arms? You mean like an AR-15?
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What that might help if you point them backwards and fire as you go, it wasn’t quite what I had in mind.
I was thinking about counter-balancing the force of moving each leg forward with an arm moving backward, kind of like how our own meat puppets work.
I’d like to see a video with Atlas running circles around this thing, then sprint forward finish the course and run back to check on his teetering chicken friend…
Doesn’t look like the engineers in jackets are having any trouble keeping up. Just sayin’.