Bob Eisenman Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) https://ibb.co/dtJG61G (122) Unitree Go 1: The Robot Dog? - YouTube Unitree Robotics - 宇树科技官网 unboxing video Edited August 9, 2021 by Bob Eisenman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFartRides Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Those creep me out. They will make efficient killers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 @OldFartRidesOldFartRides "Those creep me out. They will make efficient killers." https://www.cnet.com/news/nypd-terminates-robot-police-dog-contract-with-boston-dynamics/ Same feeling in NYC for the original Boston Dynamics version NYPD terminates robot police dog contract with Boston Dynamics Following criticism over aggressive policing tactics, the NYPD has ended a $94,000 contract with Boston Dynamics to lease a robotic "Digidog." I was thinking a hands free 360 video platform of a slow moving EUC rider. Plus 'mans best friend' in the digital context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
div Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) Fast self balancing is really a major step for (mobile) robotics, allowing for both simpler and more efficient structures. Its been allowing drones for a while, nice to see the quadruped domain getting closer to mass production. edit: about NYPD and digidog: They probably already used wheeled solutions, its really just the creep factor that got people up in arms. edit 2: yet less expensive: xiaomi dog, 1500$ Edited August 10, 2021 by div Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanghamP Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 No one pointed out the obvious course of taking your robot dog for a walk on your EUC? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellac Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 13 hours ago, OldFartRides said: Those creep me out. They will make efficient killers. everyone should watch the Metalhead episode of Black Mirror 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 14 hours ago, OldFartRides said: Those creep me out. They will make efficient killers. @meepmeepmayer After posting my response about the NYPD contract with Boston Dynamics I got 2 consecutive 'account locked' for 14 minutes warnings.....? https://ibb.co/sFC1Q7m The search within the forum feature doesn't even get hits for account locked? I suppose that since I reset my password yesterday and it might not (yet) have been auto archived by Google for automatic web browser field insertion that the incorrect password might have been used 1x (or more) while logging back on, resulting in some kind of security flag being issued. I deliberately tried using an incorrect password after regaining account access. No account locked warning resulted using an incorrect password. Sort of a creepy kind of warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFartRides Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 2 hours ago, shellac said: everyone should watch the Metalhead episode of Black Mirror OK. 1 hour ago, Bob Eisenman said: @meepmeepmayer After posting my response about the NYPD contract with Boston Dynamics I got 2 consecutive 'account locked' for 14 minutes warnings..... Sort of a creepy kind of warning. .Dunno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 13 hours ago, Bob Eisenman said: @meepmeepmayer After posting my response about the NYPD contract with Boston Dynamics I got 2 consecutive 'account locked' for 14 minutes warnings.....? https://ibb.co/sFC1Q7m The search within the forum feature doesn't even get hits for account locked? I suppose that since I reset my password yesterday and it might not (yet) have been auto archived by Google for automatic web browser field insertion that the incorrect password might have been used 1x (or more) while logging back on, resulting in some kind of security flag being issued. I deliberately tried using an incorrect password after regaining account access. No account locked warning resulted using an incorrect password. Sort of a creepy kind of warning. Never heard of "account locked". There surely is everything ok with your account. I googled "invision community account locked" and it seems to be a bug (?). People say clearing the browser cache helps. Your "wrong password" theory is really good, but apparently the error message then is "You have entered an incorrect code too many times and your account is temporarily locked. Please try again later." Please inform us if you have that problem (or anything else that is strange) again, so we can figure out why that happens. These quality of life issues are important. Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, meepmeepmayer said: Your "wrong password" theory is really good, but apparently the error message then is "You have entered an incorrect code too many times and your account is temporarily locked. Please try again later." Yeah.... Thanks for your comments. Tech wise I've recently had some issues with hardware I own (created). A desktop I assembled years ago , which runs Vista, seems to have died (motherboard doesn't post). Vista is so old it doesn't really connect properly to the internet with its browser version. Replacing the motherboard is not straightforward because of Vista security issues etc. and no longer supported OS. Since I'm sort of chair bound (activity wise) lately, I decided to leap at the opportunity to buy the $50 Kindle Fire tablet from a store a short bicycle ride away. I've been playing alot of chess based stuff on chess.com since my foot injury last December. A new chessboard would be worth the $50 alone. Despite much effort my chess ability seems to have leveled off at all levels of participation. An enjoyable twitchTV stream from chess playing Russian sisters called 'TheBelenkaya' (Dina Belenkaya a rated master) provides regular entertainment in addition to the Canadian 'Botezlive' sisters and New York City's 'Gothamchess'. There was a chess tournament held in Sochi recently and some of the twitchTV chess streamers got to meet each other. 'Dina Belenkaya' has a funny YouTube post on blunders in chess. https://ibb.co/PhBcsCd While watching a 'twitchtv' streamer broadcast live from Streamfest 2021 in Moscow I came upon the ad for Unitree's robotic dog. Later I decided to login to the EUC forum on my new Kindle. Since the Kindle auto-enter user/pass storage is Amazon based rather than Android based or Windows browser based my login required knowledge of the password (not visible on my other devices and no log entry of it) I thought I would simply reset the password with a fresh one and logon to the EUC forum for the first time with Kindle. No problem....and the next morning...no problem....but the wham...the account closed warning as described....but not a problem since waiting out the time penalty. Seems weird but that's the sequence of events. Maybe an Amazon password retrieval security issue enters into the picture. Auto fill logon works now with Kindle's Silk browser. https://ibb.co/RNH6pTP And the forum post is seen on Kindle https://ibb.co/gmFXqH3 At $50 I think I'm at my price point. Even at $2700 for a robotic dog (as compared to Boston Dynamic's Spot price) robotic dogs are strictly a watch on the internet kind of thing. Edited August 10, 2021 by Bob Eisenman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 @meepmeepmayer When you are not busy doing admin tasks for the EUC forum check out Victoria's pole dance routine on https://m.twitch.tv/girl__fighter Pole dancing as sport must be a popular Scandanavian, European, Russian activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 and for $1540 (1st 1000 orders) the Xiaomi Cyberdog enters the market of 'creepy robotic dogs'. Xiaomi’s terrifying new CyberDog can run and do backflips (msn.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitmage Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 For the record, I wish to welcome our robotic overlords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFartRides Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Give Jack Williamson’s “The Humanoid Touch” a read, then get back to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFartRides Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 On 8/9/2021 at 6:08 PM, shellac said: everyone should watch the Metalhead episode of Black Mirror So we looked that up last night. Well done horror piece. No happy ending there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee guy Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Serious questions: what practical reason(s) is there to have this robotic dog ? And is it controller operated or autonomous? What range from the controller/operator does it work? How long per charge? I’ve not yet found answers to these q’s. Until then, this has to be a novelty (or a Trojan horse). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellkitten Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 What could possibly go right..........? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Possible applications may include: search and rescue, military, reconnaissance, bomb disposal, mining, security... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 Cheetah vs RoboDog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 The 150 mph 'barrier' presents spin out problems for one entry in the autonomous race car (robo dogs rolling cousin?) challenge at Las Vegas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 (edited) RoboDog has been a checkered flag holder at an autonomous vehicles race (03:28 in video) https://ibb.co/SPJRYJd Edited January 13, 2022 by Bob Eisenman Correction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyTop Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 @Hellkitten Have you ever watched the air soft gun turret videos. … Scary! … Not a chance getting by them and they are just slow air soft pellets. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhpr262 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 On 1/9/2022 at 11:44 PM, Hellkitten said: What could possibly go right..........? The US military tried out similar (tracked) robots years ago in Iraq - the insurgents defeated them by having obviously unarmed women and children walk up to them and throw blankets over them. As long as you dont change the Rules of Engagement to make those people legitimate targets for deadly force such combat robots will be more or less useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellkitten Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, mhpr262 said: The US military tried out similar (tracked) robots years ago in Iraq - the insurgents defeated them by having obviously unarmed women and children walk up to them and throw blankets over them. As long as you dont change the Rules of Engagement to make those people legitimate targets for deadly force such combat robots will be more or less useless. Yeah, it’s much harder to get blankets over drones. Edited January 13, 2022 by Hellkitten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gon2fast Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I would happily invest in a robodog to keep other dog owner's from letting their dogs dump on my front lawn. zap em right in the butt (owner, not dog). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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