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I worked on the original hopping/jumping/running robots at CMU and later MIT with Marc Raibert. I can assure you that everything done was above-board, publishe
by cheponis 19y ago
I worked on the original hopping/jumping/running robots at CMU and later MIT with Marc Raibert. I can assure you that everything done was above-board, published, and open. Dr. Raibert is one of those rare scientist/engineer/entrepreneur types who is interested in progress for people. He was asked by DARPA to develop this vehicle, so he wanted to help them out.
The Sci-Fi stuff in these comments are, well, crazy.
- jrsims 19y agoWell, thank goodness for Dr. Raibert. And while we're at it, thank goodness for Albert Einstein. It's the people who would exploit the technology developed by these benign characters that frightens me. So it is perfectly reasonable to be paranoid about emerging technologies that have the capacity for great good or great evil.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoI've got to say, this just looked like yet another in the line of CMU robot videos -- impressive, but only to someone who actually knows how hard this is -- until the kick. And then the ice-patch sequence, which is just awesome. Kudos to you and your coworkers. This obviously represents one hell of a lot of patient work.