March 31, 2004
More Than Meets the Eye?

Robert H. gets a giant robotic no-prize for bringing us Vehicle to autonomous biped robot conversion for the Mini Cooper r50. That's full size Mini to you, bud.

The photos and videos are amazing, but there's definitely a credibility gap for me. It is quite possible, even easy if you know the right people, to create all of this in CGI. With a really good rig it's just about impossible to tell the difference between the real and the virtual. Bottom line: until I see this thing in full-size, full-motion video I'm going to call it an entertaining hoax.

Posted by scott at March 31, 2004 08:52 AM

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Agreed. As I remember it, there is this whole test going on to make a vehicle - any vehicle - drive itself across the desert. To think that some random guy, even an engineer, can create a walking robot and all himself is a bit ridiculous...

Posted by: Ron on March 31, 2004 02:53 PM
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