haha thanks! Pretty tiring and frustrating day today, so i thought why not pitty party in the off topic thread a bit...haha well that just made my day =]

probably because there is no cake behind your forum name and nobody knows you...

The cake is gone by now, he had on the same day as me Just 7 years difference.
So happy (belated) birthday to you

your fat mother is over the ocean
your fat mother is over th sea
your fat mother is over the oil leak
she falls onto the leak and its sealed

seal it, seal it oh please seal the leak with your mom your mom
seal it seal oh oh why dont you seal the leak with your mom?

Coolest Autonomous Roboter that I have seen yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww&feature=player_embedded


and this is a nice solution of simplicity in design:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0NFrA-Nx4Y&feature=related

so we are the one race that tries to make any other race including our own oboslete...
how clever...

It looks cool and its ability to balance itself is impressive. But the motor required to run the thing makes too much noise. With those things around, you can pretty much forget about stealth.

Also, those robots don't have arms. They can carry stuff on their backs, but live soldiers would have to load them up themselves. This would make it impossible to send one of these things out under fire to pick up some wounded marines.

But like I said, it's still some pretty impressive technology.

The noise is simply caused by the Gasoline-engine.

In a stealth scenario they could use batteries (as full or part-time energy source)

Impressive is the ability of the robodog to keep upright
in a very unstable position.
Not like these japanese human-bots who are build to
have low instability. (big feet and such)

The bobodog itself is not really useful yet (a dirtbike
or quad is a better choice)
But the technology itself is impressive at that stage.

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The second bot is impressive for using such a very
simple solution, and actually revinventing the wheel.

This would make it a much better system for outer planetary
rovers, that the classic rigid wheels.

When making these "flaps" to change between an open and
closed (wheel) form, you could
even seamlessly change between a driving and
walking behaviour.

Our good mikaldinho is also a good friend of unity forum' users

http://forum.unity3d.com/search.php?search_author=mikesgames