by lemonherb Pentagon’s robotic cheetah is the fastest mechanical mammal ever built |
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03-05-2012, 01:33 PM
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| Omnibot  Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 233 News Credits: 1 | Pentagon’s robotic cheetah is the fastest mechanical mammal ever built Could this be the beginning of the Beast Wars? Ok, it doesn't transform, but I thought it was interesting. The Pentagon's robotic cheetah is the fastest mechanical mammal ever built |
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03-05-2012, 01:35 PM
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| Hyper Goldfish! Golfball!  Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 6,106 Location: British Columbia Collection Count: Bookoo | Just wait, they'll put machine guns on it.  Follow me on Tumblr! Hefty Landline Click. |
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03-05-2012, 02:48 PM
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| Gay for Hot Rod   Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 821 | Interesting that the stride length and pattern changes as it gets faster, just like a real running animal. I'm curious why they shaped the legs like they did. Obviously they did whatever they had to do to get it to work, but I'm wondering why the shape and joint structure that works in flesh and bone won't work in metal. I can see this thing being used in warfare to carry bombs into enemy territory. Just send the robo-bunny (cause it looks way more like a rabbit than a cheetah) sprinting across the battle lines with a bomb, wait for it to settle in somewhere important, and BOOM.  Twitter: Grreyley |
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03-05-2012, 03:05 PM
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| Where was Sol Fury? Sol Fury was here!    Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 17,533 Location: Albuquerque, NM News Credits: 33  | Not Transformers related. So off to GD you go! Listen to me week nights on KTEG 7pm-11pm MST HERE.  |
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03-05-2012, 03:11 PM
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| Banned Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 12,551 Location: Inside your closet. In your head. Collection Count: Over 9000 News Credits: 1   | One RPG round to the legs and it's curtains. |
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03-05-2012, 03:17 PM
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| I voted for Super_Megatron and all I got was this stupid user title.   Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,771 Location: The Hammer, Ontario News Credits: 2 | Quote:
It looks like the leg shape is designed to keep the hydraulics simple, its similar to a real animal, provided they don't have feet. I'm most impressed that this thing can run backwards so easily.  | |
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03-05-2012, 03:58 PM
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| #6seasonsandamovie  Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 5,240 Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Collection Count: 156 News Credits: 1 | First we find a Ape statue somewhere now this. The Transformers themed apocalypse is begininng!  Steam TF2 Backpack Twitter Tumblr Youtube Xbox: jackgaughan97 Quote:
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03-05-2012, 03:58 PM
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| TURDUKEN  Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 2,008 Location: BFE Collection Count: 3 | Cheetor?  |
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03-05-2012, 04:44 PM
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| Bait n switch.  Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,774 Collection Count: So long for now. Until there's a light. News Credits: 1 | Does anyone else get the feeling of contacting the DARPA Chief? Feedback Thread B/S/T Thread Eric's Want Thread |
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03-05-2012, 05:05 PM
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| is an a-hole.  Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 8,064 Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Collection Count: 143 - Malfuctioning Autobot | i saw it. and i thought of ravage.  Metalryde's feedback ----- Metalryde's wanted items Quote:
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