Welcome To The Future
Not sure if Handle the robot is more terrifying than it is cool – maybe a bit of both. One thing I do know is technology has sure made some huge strides over the past 20 years or so. And after seeing Handle, it only makes me wonder what they aren’t showing us.
The next thing you know we’ll be seeing one of these things with an automatic rifle patrolling the streets of urban America. We’ll be shitting our pants at the sight of him in a hostile situation. The guys at Boston Dynamics aren’t fucking around.
Boston Dynamics –
“Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4 feet vertically. It uses electric power to operate both electric and hydraulic actuators, with a range of about 15 miles on one battery charge. Handle uses many of the same dynamics, balance and mobile manipulation principles found in the quadruped and biped robots we build, but with only about 10 actuated joints, it is significantly less complex. Wheels are efficient on flat surfaces while legs can go almost anywhere: by combining wheels and legs Handle can have the best of both worlds.”
