[lbo-talk] The spindly old lady dancing legs of metallic doom

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 17 09:35:15 PDT 2007


About robotic pack mule BigDog, Bruce Sterling writes:

"...look at the insane way this lurching mongrel picks its way through mud, sharp rocks, and snow. And those horrible little hooves it has, and its bandage-wrapped black-zombie legs... and that irritating whining noise it makes. I don't see it "running and jumping," but it's so cheap-looking and pig-ugly that it looks entirely convincing -- twenty years from now, tech-savvy global-guerrilla marauders will be strapping IEDs and AK47s onto these things and unleashing them on remote mountain villages."

Link to the strangely unnerving demo vid -

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUoW43Xq7ts>

.d.



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