The Nightmare in Silicon Valley: 8 horror technologies that should scare you to death
Every night is fright night with what can happen once these scary technologies take hold in ways that you may not have imagined.
The diversity of the machines roboticists have dreamed up over the years is truly astounding. Here are some highs and lows from a discipline that stretches back further than you might think.
Ralph Mosher didn't stop with man augmentation. Here's an image of GE's walking truck, an early attempt to replicate the four-legged gait of an animal. The walking truck was designed to operate in areas where tractors might get stuck, and its development, not surprisingly, was funded by the military.
The idea was that a human operator would be coupled to the mechanism. The driver would basically walk inside the big machine and the 12-foot legs mimic him. The arms of the machine would follow the movements of the operator's arms, as a Popular Science article from the time explained.
Caption by: Greg Nichols
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