I don't know about you all but I'm feeling sheepish with anything less than 7.62 after watching this DoD Petman vid. 

Shit is real and it is coming at us with blinding speed.  All just a matter of time now.  I swear, if one of these comes out of the bushes or one of those DHS tanks then it's game on.

There'll be all kinds of these things.  Pay no heed to what head or human feature they put on em!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=YvbAqw0sk6M&NR=1

remember, don't shoot them in the head cuz that would be a waste of ammo (highly unlikely to have anything of real use there), take out their legs first and then figure out where their cpu is.

I can almost hear the theme from the movie: The Terminator.   

Man that's gnarly. No more consciousness to the wrong that can be done

Wow.....that Petman is F'n eerie! 

I swear, if one of these comes out of the bushes or one of those DHS tanks then it's game on.

+1 

I dont understand why- if you are going to make a robot. say for weapons of war- that you would make it to resemble a human figure. Surely the human body is much to unstable and requires much more effort to remain upright vs something modeled after say, a large cat.

Terminator movies might seem like science fiction but so did many of the other sci-fi movies in past decades and many of those make believe gadgets actually exist now.

scary.

I dont understand why- if you are going to make a robot. say for weapons of war- that you would make it to resemble a human figure. Surely the human body is much to unstable and requires much more effort to remain upright vs something modeled after say, a large cat.

Terminator movies might seem like science fiction but so did many of the other sci-fi movies in past decades and many of those make believe gadgets actually exist now.

scary.

the only real use i can see for them is to test equipment designed to be used by humans. 

otherwise, these seem terribly inefficient.

what i would wager is that maybe this is connected to some kind of powered exoskeleton project.  the military has been pursuing exoskeleton tech for a while now.

There'll be all kinds of these things.  Pay no heed to what head or human feature they put on em!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=YvbAqw0sk6M&NR=1

That with a implanted fleshlight would be full of win...

Remember brick cellphones 25 years ago.  or computers 25 years ago.  or Video games 25 years ago.

We now have Drones with precision targetting by people with joysticks.

Technology is moving faster than we can comprehend.   Small kine artificial intelligence added to these things and we're screwed.

And if they put cyberskin on them  they can walk among us.....or it could be a lot of fun. ( reference to the fleshlight )

I dont understand why- if you are going to make a robot. say for weapons of war- that you would make it to resemble a human figure. Surely the human body is much to unstable and requires much more effort to remain upright vs something modeled after say, a large cat.

I don't think a cat can reload, but petman sure looks like he can.

Now if they make robot cats with human hands who can walk on all fours or upright. Holy Crap !

That with a implanted fleshlight would be full of win...

for the win!  My mind didn't even go there but I like the way you think!

let's make a few revisions by making her 3 foot tall and with a flat head so I can rest my beer on top of her...

Rosie Robot has you in her self secreting android clutches but gets a fed gov broadcast you have not filed your income taxes for the past 5 years and is instructed to insert the new taxpayer tracking self tunneling anal probe (because whether it's aliens or docs or the gov it's always up yours).  You try to dash for your AR but  it's already been confiscated in 2014 and the robot's 1,000 lb. psi grip holds you down prone as you look in it's infrared scanning camera eyes and scream for dear mercy.  A faint smile appears on the android lips as your video begins broadcasting on the Shodan network where hussein and hillary are settling in with some blow and smoke in the war room.  "Welcome to the show" "Another one bites the dust"

Your wife then walks in, sees the scene and shouts WTF are you doing!?!  LOL


It people, it.

I could never trust such things because behind them lay the minds of people and the government.  Plus all programmers are subversives.

Nope. I say clear to fire.

Petman comes after me?  A robot that needs cables to stand upright?  Please.  A handful of ball bearings, a staircase, a wet patch on the floor... these are all I'll need!

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I dont understand why- if you are going to make a robot. say for weapons of war- that you would make it to resemble a human figure.

If the robot is modeled after us, it can replace us that much easier.

The military wont have to retrofit any tanks, humvees, jets or weapon systems etc to fit some new robot shape if it's just like us.....it's like the militaries version of plug'n'play.

(in an eerie female computer voice)

"Please insert robot and press start to activate drone sequence"

That with a implanted fleshlight would be full of win...

Maybe then I'll be able to finally get a girlfriend. Bwahaha!

If the robot is modeled after us, it can replace us that much easier.

The military wont have to retrofit any tanks, humvees, jets or weapon systems etc to fit some new robot shape if it's just like us.....it's like the militaries version of plug'n'play.

(in an eerie female computer voice)

"Please insert robot and press start to activate drone sequence"

they already dont have to.  it makes no sense to have robots operate a tank when the same thing could be accomplished with software, the same AI, or remote controls.  adding a robot is just adding another failure point (or a few hundred)