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Real Life Metal Gear Hound on the way!?
Lavallee017 \| 1:20 PM on 03.17.2008	14 comments

Well I happened to catch this online today whilst I was eating lunch and I can say with all confidence that we are all totally boned. This critter is not new in any form but the newest model however is something to marvel at. Much more "animal" than its predecessor and with the ability to carry roughly double the weight of the first run while at a fraction of the size this miniature version of what could become a real life Metal Gear may be seen as a wonderful device to carry munitions into battle or carry the wounded out. The video shows little stress on the machine carrying itself and an excess of 340 lbs. (154.55 Kilo) but it would seem to my video game oriented mind that it would serve just as well increased 10 fold in size and carrying a large nuclear missile pod anywhere it damn well pleases.

The video boasts some pretty serious skills for this little dude they call the Big Dog such as recovering from slipping on Ice and clearing an imaginary cross beam without breaking itself. This machine is backed by DARPA funding and research and is being headlined by Boston Dynamics to do the dirty work of actually building and testing it.

Perhaps Hideo Kojima should send them both a free copy of Guns of the Patriots just so that they know what they are getting into...but maybe all that inspiration might be a bad thing.

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13 comments | showing # 1 to 13

B-Radicate

I can't get over the fact it looks like two metal gears walking together holding something between them. It's just sorta funny (and just as scary).

Also, I was waiting for that thing to jump until the end. That was real cool. I wonder if it can right itself if it is actually flipped on its back? When it fell on the ice I was impressed, but I wanna see it completely flip itself over. When it can do that, it's officially ready to go I would think.

brainderailment

Farickin Saweet!

king3vbo

Wierd... but awesome

Lavallee017

@B-Radicate

Getting up off of it's back would be really impressive. although i think it could be ready for production even before that becomes reality.

Perhaps a roll over command might be able to work but it would be very difficult as the design will most often call for the unit to be carrying heavy objects. A collapse before falling over technique might be a better bet, as it is that guy in the video couldn't kick it over and the ice couldn't stop him either.

LostCrichton

nice!

Eschatos

It needs a machine gun.

Dead Movie Star

That thing moves soooooo creepy. Ugh

Rider Chop

cant wait to see millions of these things roaming the countryside, its lazer sight seeking out and destroying any living thing.

awesome job!

s0lesurviv0r

That's some awesome engineering. It'd be incredible to see this paired up with a soldier in that robotic suit that was in the news a while back.

MAN AND MACHINE, POWER EXTREME!!!

AngelsDontBurn

Wow, that's creepy.

Aziel13

oh shi

MechaMonkey

When they teach it to run, we're boned.

Skribble

That is incredible!

It reacts the way an animal would when it slips over and has to climb over unsettled objects. It slips and trys to counter its weight etc

That is fucking amazing.

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about me

I'm 23 and live in Western Massachusetts, USA and like Video Games, but more than that I like consumer electronics, including and especially focused on cool things I can carry on my person.

Systems I own:
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3 80GB
PSP model #1000
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo DS Lite
Gameboy Micro

Favorite Game(s):
Metal Gear Series!

Currently Playing:
Little Big Planet
Metal Gear Online
Pixel Junk Eden
Super Mario Galaxy
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

I do marketing for a manufacturing company who makes watertight/airtight enclosures for the US military to put all of their expensive stuff in. i.e guns, missile components, aircraft parts. pretty damn neat. needless to say all of my gaming peripherals are soundly protected by mil-spec cases now.

Hobbies: Drawing, Gaming, Carving, Hiking, Camping, Fishing, Mountain Biking, Climbing (ice and rock), Kayaking, Skim Boarding, Shooting, and pretty much anything else that ends in -ing that takes place outside.

Likes: Dogs, Weapons, Video Games, My Girlfriend, My Girlfriend's Dog, Food, Cooking, Good Water, Gadgets, Things with LCD screens, Watches, Whiskey, Beer, Specialty stores, Internet shopping, and Jackets. Seriously...I have a problem. I have more coats and Jackets than my girlfriend has shoes and purses combined.

Dislikes: Hippies, Unorganized things, dead batteries, Tomatoes, City Water, mice without scroll wheels, the original Xbox controller, mosquitoes & black flies (in that order), Wal-Mart (even though I can't afford not to go), and Sweating because of heat and not physical expenditure.