This all-terrain robot weighs 4,188 lbs, is 9.18 ft tall and is powered by a 50hp Perkins 2.2-liter turbo diesel engine which sets the hydraulics into motion. It’s fitted with a series of sensors that help it walk, with its movements being controlled by a Linux PC running the HexEngine software that coordinates the 18 hydraulic actuator in its legs.
Not sure where you'd use it? Or why? But it's pretty cool!
Last edited by ggbaird on April 21st 2013, 4:24 pm; edited 1 time in total
Ulmus Admin
Posts : 130 Join date : 2013-02-27 Age : 54 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: Mantis April 4th 2013, 9:47 pm
Didn't I see that in "Wild Wild West"?
____________________________________ Why not?
Diseasel
Posts : 1491 Join date : 2013-02-28 Location : About Mid AZ
Subject: Re: Mantis April 4th 2013, 10:58 pm
It's kind of cool and lame all at the same time.
Diesel Dan
Posts : 1710 Join date : 2013-02-28 Age : 52 Location : Columbia TN
Subject: Re: Mantis April 5th 2013, 9:07 am
It may seem odd and slow but this is just the beginning. Refinements will make it faster/smoother and someone will find an application for it. We have autonomous cars, planes, tiny surveillance "birds", bi-pod robots and now this heavy lifting all terrain creation. IF AI ever becomes a reality things could get interesting but don't worry as there are many computer engineers that are actively working on making AI just that.
rustbucket
Posts : 365 Join date : 2013-03-02 Age : 70 Location : western Wisconsin
Subject: Re: Mantis April 21st 2013, 10:30 am
When I saw the subject matter- "Mantis", I was thinking of one of these lol .....
Guess I've got cabin fever pretty bad- we had snow last night ....... I'm ready to turn some dirt over.
Diesel Dan
Posts : 1710 Join date : 2013-02-28 Age : 52 Location : Columbia TN
Subject: Re: Mantis April 21st 2013, 10:33 am
Yeah, you guys are still getting hammered up there and over here we had a 87* day last thursday. My grass needs mowed in areas already!
rustbucket
Posts : 365 Join date : 2013-03-02 Age : 70 Location : western Wisconsin
Subject: Re: Mantis April 21st 2013, 11:52 am
Diesel Dan wrote:
Yeah, you guys are still getting hammered up there and over here we had a 87* day last thursday. My grass needs mowed in areas already!
It's just one of those years- it's been a long winter. Last winter I didn't even bother putting the chains on the tractor .... it was a pretty mild winter. No matter where you live you sooner or later you will encounter Mother Nature's extremes. One year I went home to Maine to see family at Christmas (I was living in Houston at the time). The temp at the Portland Jetport was 27 degreees the day I left ...... not unusual but when I got to Intercontinental in Houston it was 14 degrees- if you were a plumber you were raking in the dough with all the pipes bursting.
joemac
Posts : 1916 Join date : 2013-04-17 Location : Texas
Subject: Re: Mantis April 21st 2013, 1:25 pm
We're a long way down the road with robotis and AI. All US DoD projects with DARPA, funded by the US credit card.
Cool but concerned about possible uses and abuses some of the power structure would have in mind. Skynet doesn't appear that far off.
bones
Posts : 148 Join date : 2013-03-06 Location : NE PA
Subject: Re: Mantis April 22nd 2013, 8:48 am
rustbucket wrote:
When I saw the subject matter- "Mantis", I was thinking of one of these lol .....
Guess I've got cabin fever pretty bad- we had snow last night ....... I'm ready to turn some dirt over.
I thought the same thing, lol
theshyguy
Posts : 1039 Join date : 2013-04-24 Age : 40 Location : Lubbock Texas
Subject: Re: Mantis April 24th 2013, 11:59 am
Me too. Some off that stuff is kind of scary though.
Home 
Search 
Latest images 
Register 
Log in 
