Author Topic: Atlas, Handle & Spot the dog  (Read 8228 times)

Mullberry

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Atlas, Handle & Spot the dog
« on: 10 Jan, 2021, 10:15:56 am »
Not a joke but it does not really fit into any other category.

When I was a kid (many moons ago) there was the robot known as “ROBBIE” in the Forbidden Planet film, then came Robert the robot from Fireball XL5.

In the 60s came 1A1998YM3B-9 G.U.N.T.E.R from Lost in Space, remember “ DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER” wasn't really a catchy name was it?
In The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy appeared MARVIN the paranoid android, one forgetable one was twinky from Buck Rodgers, but he/it/she was an annoying little git.

Then we moved to the real thing, Honda's ASIMO.

But things have moved on a bit now by about a million %, a company called Boston Dynamics have a couple of robots, Atlas, Handle & Spot the dog. At Christmas they put this video out,  Google https://www.bostondynamics.com/  to see all the robots, if you have $75000 to spare Spot is forsale
I have a feeling that the T800 Terminator maybe on the cards one day.