{"id":740149,"date":"2013-03-01T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=219602"},"modified":"2013-03-01T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:29:55","slug":"darpa-trains-bigdog-to-throw-cinder-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740149","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Trains BigDog To Throw Cinder Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/8-terrifying-robot-videos-from-darpa-2012-11\">we&#8217;ve been too hard on DARPA<\/a>. They&#8217;re not trying to incite the robot apocalypse. They&#8217;re just trying to create machines that can walk over rough terrain while helping soldiers carry heavy gear.<\/p>\n<p>They wouldn&#8217;t make a robot that could kill us with giant concrete blocks:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2jvLalY6ubc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Holy sh*t, did you see that? Remind me never to face off against BigDog in a construction yard. <\/p>\n<p>[h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/technology\/comments\/19gnwz\/the_darpa_big_dog_robot_can_now_throw_cinder\/\">Reddit<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=mU7ODCd0iI8:2WOZyl4Bk2M:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/mU7ODCd0iI8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;ve been too hard on DARPA. They&#8217;re not trying to incite the robot apocalypse. They&#8217;re just trying to create machines that can walk over rough terrain while helping soldiers carry heavy gear. They wouldn&#8217;t make a robot that could kill us with giant concrete blocks: Holy sh*t, did you see that? Remind me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36xT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}