Teh One Who Knocks
07-06-2018, 10:27 AM
Jasper Hammill for Metro.co.uk
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It seems inevitable that robots will one day overthrow humanity and then set about exterminating us all.
Now we’ve moved one step closer to digital doomsday with the arrival of a scary robot which can hunt in darkness and is agile enough to sneak in through your window.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has upgraded its Cheetah III robot so it can climb staircases, leap across obstacles and even ‘recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved’.
Although there are no plans to use Cheetah to hunt down humans, it’s clear that it will one day be extremely good at this task.
Until then, thank goodness, its creators hope it will be used to perform tasks which are too dangerous for members of our fleshy species.
‘Cheetah 3 is designed to do versatile tasks such as power plant inspection, which involves various terrain conditions including stairs, curbs, and obstacles on the ground,” said the robot’s designer, Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.
‘I think there are countless occasions where we [would] want to send robots to do simple tasks instead of humans. Dangerous, dirty, and difficult work can be done much more safely through remotely controlled robots.’
https://i.imgur.com/0y2YJhN.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ1DaQgg3lE
The 90-pound mechanical monster is about the size of a full-grown Labrador and can ‘feel’ a way through its surroundings rather than relying on sight.
‘There are many unexpected behaviors the robot should be able to handle without relying too much on vision,’ Kim added.
‘Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and sometimes not available, and if you rely too much on vision, your robot has to be very accurate in position and eventually will be slow. So we want the robot to rely more on tactile information. That way, it can handle unexpected obstacles while moving fast.’
https://i.imgur.com/8ycWW5V.jpg
It seems inevitable that robots will one day overthrow humanity and then set about exterminating us all.
Now we’ve moved one step closer to digital doomsday with the arrival of a scary robot which can hunt in darkness and is agile enough to sneak in through your window.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has upgraded its Cheetah III robot so it can climb staircases, leap across obstacles and even ‘recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved’.
Although there are no plans to use Cheetah to hunt down humans, it’s clear that it will one day be extremely good at this task.
Until then, thank goodness, its creators hope it will be used to perform tasks which are too dangerous for members of our fleshy species.
‘Cheetah 3 is designed to do versatile tasks such as power plant inspection, which involves various terrain conditions including stairs, curbs, and obstacles on the ground,” said the robot’s designer, Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.
‘I think there are countless occasions where we [would] want to send robots to do simple tasks instead of humans. Dangerous, dirty, and difficult work can be done much more safely through remotely controlled robots.’
https://i.imgur.com/0y2YJhN.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ1DaQgg3lE
The 90-pound mechanical monster is about the size of a full-grown Labrador and can ‘feel’ a way through its surroundings rather than relying on sight.
‘There are many unexpected behaviors the robot should be able to handle without relying too much on vision,’ Kim added.
‘Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and sometimes not available, and if you rely too much on vision, your robot has to be very accurate in position and eventually will be slow. So we want the robot to rely more on tactile information. That way, it can handle unexpected obstacles while moving fast.’