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Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT: The Robots are coming. Date: 12 Dec 2024 02:22:03 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <vjdhcb$ef9$1@panix2.panix.com> References: <vj7gvh$hts1$1@dont-email.me> <3s8fljlp3v78jqqchobnjlq6q0fn1iknng@4ax.com> <vja3va$13b2c$2@dont-email.me> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="23292"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1555 Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote: >Link? > >1. Did it operate from on board power, or was it cabled? >2. Did it use on-board computers, or was that also cabled? >3. Could it walk over rough, unstable surfaces, as this one does? > >The earliest bipedal robot I can find is actually Chinese, from 2000, >called Xianxingzhe: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBxHOM-NmM ARPA built a walking robot in 1968 which was pneumatically-powered by an external compressor and had a human being operating the legs. It was the beginnings of a program to build a walking vehicle for the Army to use in mountainous terrain. I don't think it ever got beyond the point of a single test prototype, which is now at the Army Transportation Museum at Ft Eustis, next to some hovercraft. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."