current generation aerial drones are vastly more stealthy and efficient than this goober could ever be. However, the balance and dexterity of this thing has potential in other areas where unmanned exploration or observation may be of interest.
I'm not giving away anything by stating that certain marks of aerial drone can laser designate a target for a precision strike on a large or small scale. Very useful toy in the mountains of Afghanistan....
of components is all wrong. Nobody would build it this way. It would be smaller (no need to be that big, consume that much energy, it would be low to the ground, it would have more legs, probably two different kinds, one for speed and one for maneuverability. There are many things wrong with this picture, but it was fun to participate in the conversation anyway.... and I did not want to be the first to spoil it.
I'd prefer that we spent less on developing new killing machines and more on making sure the troops have adequate body armor and vehicle armor. But then again, the profit motive drives the military industrial complex, not patriotism.
I had an appointment to see a lady from one of the local agencies. Traffic was light, so I was about 35 minutes early. I will not wait in a hotel parking lot, so I drove past the hotel and into a small industrial park. As I was getting further into the industrial park, I heard an extremely loud noise that kept getting louder and louder (sounded like about a hundred leave blowers and chainsaws operating at the same time).
I pulled around a curve in the road and saw the robot in the video above moving through a parking lot. There were about twenty guys standing in a group off to the side and one guy in an orange vest holding the biggest damned controller I've ever seen (it was actually strapped to his chest to help hold it up). It's hard to tell size from a video, but the one I saw was camouflage, looked like it had Kevlar mats strapped to it, but appeared to be bigger than the one in the video.
I pulled over and watched for about twenty minutes. That had the thing going up an embankment at the rear of the lot, and then had it transverse the embankment at a roughly forty degree angle. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
By the time I pulled back out to go to my session, there were six or so other cars that had pulled over to watch.
So, it is real, and I can see the potential, but it sure is freaking loud.
"testimony" (I don't quite understand that reference).
Being a former ground pounder, I can think of quite a few uses for a robot that can negotiate uneven terrain and over obstacles, boldly going where I wouldn't have to first. In fact, I would hazard to wager that some guys in Afghanistan would love to have something like this go into the caves first with video and/or armament capabilities. They'd have to work on the sound and size though, but I would guess that this is a prototype.
Then again, Master Chief, and not to get into an Army v. Navy thing (which can be fun), there probably wouldn't be a use on a ship for something like this (other than to quell a mutiny). LOL
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