@zanella:

You, sir have exceeded fair use parameters. Please cooperate with the firemen when they arrive.

BasicBlack

That thing reminds me of the mechanical hound from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451...

"The mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the fire house. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber padded paws.
Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound and let loose rats in the fire house areaway. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentle paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine."

zanella

@takashimike 2.0: And then it dumps a load of nuts and bolts in the corner.

Munch

@olternaut: "All we need now is some actual artificial intelligence and a better dog like gallop."

I enjoyed Neal Stephenson's (Snow Crash?) version of this idea. Especially since it's from the perspective of the "dog".

BasicBlack

Meh....its alright. Its not as impressive as the bigdog prototype but I see promise. All we need now is some actual artificial intelligence and a better dog like gallop. Oh, and some razor sharp adamantium teeth and claws. And a scanning system 100 times more powerful than a bloodhound's. Andddddd a prime directive that tells it to seek out and terminate its target at all costs!!!
Then I'll buy 10.

olternaut

did i miss something here? didn't the toy dogs from the 90s already walk better than that?

mumin

That thing is cute.. Until it decides to empty it's oil on your carpet..

takashimike 2.0

It walks like the rabid dog in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

That said, impressive as hell. That thing isn't doing a preprogrammed sequence of movements; it's putting steps together on its own. Isn't it?

BasicBlack

Mabey the functional basis for a new Aibo?

It's ok Curves, they add the cuddles later. :)

fsusmithc2

Needs more vitamin G, and a one way ticket to hell.

Kaiser-Machead

Yea, hell of a security dog till it gets punted 40 yards into a wall.

Darrone

two words: rat thing.

suckacheese

Functional, maybe. Cuddlesome, no.

Curves

@zanella: I'd rather have one of Robert A. Heinlein's Neo-Dogs.

MagnoliaBoy

Fahrenheit 451 gets closer to reality every day...

NightElfMohawk

That tribunal of Techno Yakuza sitting around judging that thing looks SO damned bored...
I can hear the newcomers in the 3rd clip complaining...

"fuckingどこでGodzillaは私達発注されるか"

/translation: "where's the fucking Godzilla we ordered?

ANoel

I hear the Baxter Corporation will be releasing something similar in a mechanical rat soon.

Rabid Penguin

@MagnoliaBoy:

I want Buck. He was a good mule. sniff

BasicBlack

Now all it needs is a spine and toes. My robots will have toes.

smashingparadox

@olternaut: Yeah I wanna them try and kick that thing over like the bigdog!

Joseph

" I keep finding these damn batteries all over the house... I've got to house train that robo-dog better!!"

tamoko

Silly Japanese. Why do they work so hard when they can just collect government entitlements?

heroineworshipper

Destroy it.... now.

FinalValgas

If there was only a way I can share with you all my vision for a robot attack dog of death. You all remember the night monsters from that vin diesel movie "pitch black"? They would be something along those lines but they would be droids and more dog like.
Mechanical night dogs from hell. And I would program them to go hunt terrorists in the mideast or wherever. One million times more terrifying than any predator or reaper drone! :)

olternaut

"Woof, Woof, Woof. Hello, I'm Rags!"

(For the Woody Allen fans)

Ben L.

Owners in New York city would have to walk that thing with static bags in their pockets.

unspellable

@zanella:

I was going to reference that novel, but you beat me to it. Excellent book, and if you have read it, you should have felt a cold chill run down your spine watching the videos.

whiteknight89

@BasicBlack: Buck was the best!

itsgadgetplayyyy

Nice... for a prototype at least.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

かわいい！It's so cute!

Channing