Giant Robot Dinosaurs Walk Among Us
March 13th, 2007
This nifty bit of robot footage comes to us from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Back at the end of 2005, the Institute developed two animatronic dinosaurs (one Tyrannosaurus Rex, one Parasaurolophus) that could actually balance and walk without any external stability systems. This is the first time I’ve seen any footage of them in action, so I thought I’d share it with you:
Every kid’s gonna want one of these. All they’re missing are frickin’ laser beams on their heads.
[via Geekologie]
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Categories: Future Tech Robots
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I would sure like to see this video you have posted a link to but it is marked priavte & will not play. Any suggestions?
search it on youtube =) they have the video there.
Video fixed. Thanks for pointing that out – it looks like it was removed by YouTube at some point.