<![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I hope thats the 1:20 scale model. Cant wait for the real deal, take out buildings and such.

rainfever

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> thats just brilliant.. :P love the last shot where its running pretty fast

D_Zarster

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> notice no sound I bet it makes way to much noise to be a useful reconobot.

Hypenotist

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I wonder what would happen if I stuck this in my wife's sleeping bag in the middle of the night...

MrBalloonKnot

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> It's been fourteen years since I've seen a reference to "The Animal" and then there are three in this thread. Fantastic.

xenti

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> No stinky dog poo to clean up? I'll take two!

pupaboy2

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That thing is an Animal! hella cool.

DJJS

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> looks like the freaking chupacabra.

Azteck

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Did anyone get a price quote?

doinka

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> you guys showed this shit like last year. i hope you dont think were all as doped up as you are

mereoner

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> that thing was pretty cute wish i could get one

vicsells

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @TYPE-E
They did actually. It flipped over when falling down the hill, and kept on moving.

kaitou

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> The video failed to show what happens when it flip.

Type-E

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @upokyin: Wow, I forgot ALL about that thing. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @Shockage:
That is what I thought too. That thing would chare the bejesus out of me.


archercc

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Brute force over elegance. Love it.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Very cool. Where can I get one so i can chase small children around the neighborhood with it?

rjlewis74

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> It reminds me of the Animal--that 1980s toy truck that had claws extend from its wheels.

"Nothing can stop the Animal!"

upokyin

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @stat321

that really made me laugh... :D

Deso

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> who ever they get to control this thing, bettter take some motion sickness pills because watching on a monitor as much as that camera is gonna be all other the place...They will be Losing their lunch all over the place!

jcoberg10

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That is the freakin' cutest robot I've ever seen.

FullFlava

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Mars Rover of the future ftw.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> ... design looks like it has incredible potential scalability too... size of a bedbug or a football field!

ANoel

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Oh, and they should call it the WTF3000.

SammyDKat

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That is the ugliest, silliest design I have ever seen. It looks like a pug throwing a tantrum.

SammyDKat

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @SNEAKERFIEND
or better yet, get to the tree line, attach a bomb to it on a timer or something, and send a dozen of them scurrying frantically towards the enemy from all angles. It's to fast and agile, give it a top and bottom armor plating and it would be an serious killer lol..

I had a flashback to Serious Sam, where they had the dudes running at you with bombs in their hands on suicide missions.

helfrez

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> they should've named it CRAZYLEGS

AmishPhysicist

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Cute.
But, we are soooo dead. Now they have a robot that can out run and swim us.

LoganSix

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I really laughed out loud at this thing. It's actually quite an impressive technical achievement. They really thought outside the box on this creepy crawler. Watching it plummet down the down the rocky hill and then reset and move on was really impressive. Makes you wonder if people are going in all the wrong directions trying to get robots mobile.

I think this little terror conquered more terrain that any bot i've seen so far, and I gather they spent quit a bit less than Asimo who took a nasty tumble trying to climb 3 stairs upright lol.

helfrez

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Reminds me of a six legged retarded puppy, but still cute.

Muttonchops

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I remember seeing the small protptypes of this thing several years ago. Based on the independent operation of how roach legs operate, I believe. Basically the legs just keep going, no brains, not thinking, just tenacious forward movement. Totally awesome.

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That shit is sick!
lolz i could imagine this thing chasing down terrorists or even your troublesome child. Pulling this out would make him never disobey you ever again.


SneakerFiend

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Sorry for double posting by I urge anybody watching to turn on Benny Hill's Yakety Sax to go along with this video.

Blue_Six

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> It is cute in a weird way, but also creepy in that it somehow seems lifelike, like some small crazy-retarded-limping animal.Amazing it stays in one piece after falling down the sides of boulder-laden hills, I guess its a quicker way to get down.

tarochan

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> old news i saw this at a DARPA presentation nearly a year ago

xanderjanz

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That thing is amazing! They need to partner with the defense department and give it some AI. This of the possibilities!

lafond66

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I loved the ending and actually laughed out loud at how adorable it was speeding off like that.

I would buy one if could afford it. But the motivation behind it would be the same as buying a Rolio.

But this thing actually gets bonus points for not being an exact science. Sure, it synchronizes for diving and climbing stairs, but the rest of the time it's just like "Imma go this way somehow I don't care *thrash thrash thrash*".

In one word: adorable.

Blue_Six

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That thing is so cute. I loved it at the end running away into the sunset. I can't wait to see a whole family of these things. It would be even cooler if it were autonomous and not remote controlled.

pantsonfireliarliar

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Dude I want one of those things, I don't know why... and I don't know what I'd do with it, but I want one.

methodlimp

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @odnet: Will it blend?

classic!

phijef

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That's pretty impressive considering it's size and simplicity. It does have it's small creepout factor though but I would still like to play around with one with some kind of zombie head mounted on top.

TheAstronot

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> At the end, it looks like someone said "Ok, now you can go play."

Jekyll22

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> This looks like something I would call an exterminator to get rid of. Majorly creepy.

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @davekaybsc: "Terminate!....Terminate!" I always wondered why Dr. Who didn't carry around a bag full of BB's for that very reason.

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> lol, i think it looks cute :P Looks funny running through the vegetation at the start and up the steps at the end. Crazy fast at the end too lol

tin

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> That's one of the funniest headlines I've seen in a long time. I thought I was the only manic thrasher around here!

SonOfMagicFact

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> There's something really cute about that thing, its a like a little dog. The Daleks could never make it up stairs...

davekaybsc

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Six small --simultaneous-- steps for robot kind?

Kyang

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Seeing it run at the end looks like a limping animal.

influx

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> This is the new robot pet. I want one now!

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> @norfizzle: my thoughts exactly. gave me the heebie jeebies!

weatherman

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Power one of these with nuclear power plant and it can over load the plant when it get there. Doomsday machine.

Aleung

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I want a manned ATV version!

Brian B

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> It makes the world a much better place for... something.

ANoel

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Seems like it would climb better with the legs the other way, but I'm sure they tested both before deciding on this configuration. The swimming is cool, I like how it appears to come up for air. The end was great, looks like it'd be a lot of fun making it chase the neighborhood kids around!

atomx

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I'm absolutely in love with it!

hagrun

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> that actually freaked me out a little bit. it looked like a giant insect or something, especially in the beginning when its going through the tall vegetation. yeesh.

norfizzle

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Someone should make this life-size so one can sit in it. While they're at it, they should make a life-size "Animal" truck with retractable claws in the tires.. cuz nothing can stop the Animal.

spaceman37

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> It reminds me of a retarded groundhog. I actually felt sorry for it. Although i agree, if it had claws or spikes, or teeth, i'd certainly not be around it.

Gelnika

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> well I know what my nightmares are gonna be about..

windowi

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> i lol'ed very cool

demonwolf

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> So I'm finally giving in after about 6 months of just viewing pages! I now feel the need to comment!

That is frikin' awesome! Gotta love when it's tumbling down the rocks... To bad about the $$$, would make an excellent christmas gift to me!

blindaxs

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Thats pretty creeptastic.

homerjay

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> hmmm will it blend?

odnet

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> impressive, and scary at the same time. Skynet is only but a small distance away...then you know what happens...

beetlebailey

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Jeez, that thing needs to chill out, especially towards the end!

CT7

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> Stick a weapon on it and enter it on Battle Bots.

Vagabum

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I laughed out loud at least 4 times while watching this. It needs a Steve Jobs bobble head on the top though....

johnnyabnormal

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> that video actually scared me...imagine it with spikes or claws chasing after you... >_>.... <_<

Shockage

]]> <![CDATA[HRex Robot Can Conquer Any Terrain with Manic Thrashing]]> I had an "uncanny valley" moment there.

very cool.

Jason

]]>