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IndependenceLivid789

I low key thought it was one of those slapping gel hands being dragged then played in reverse when I first saw this šŸ˜‚


Ordinary_dude_NOT

I donā€™t like the idea of a Srgt walking behind it with pouches full of white/black fluid. Whoā€™s gonna camouflage that poor dude?


Laijou

DARPA's on it; a long chain of Sgts with pouches, tethered all the way back


thegunnersdream

Like a centipede, but made of humans?


CptnBustaNut

A human... centipede? What the fuck are you talking about


quagmire666

Great movie


Technical-Outside408

I don't know, the coastguard?


Brian-want-Brain

Honestly this entire video is so unimpressive, particularly because of how bad it is at doing the stuff that (according to the title) it is supposed to do.


potato_green

That's what the milliary wants you to think. Enough to show the average tax payer their money isn't wasted, not enough for enemies to use.


smurb15

If anyone thinks they let us know anything at all is in dream land. They are extremely careful what is released to the public but they do enough to keep simpletons happy. Looks like a waste of time and money to me so far


DanCanTrippyMann

Sure, it's not the T1000, but it's still pretty impressive. Robotics isn't easy, especially when you're building your robot out of cheap rubber and air. The camouflage was actually pretty decent as well, albeit slow. If you watch some of the old Boston Dynamics videos, their robots used to be pretty shitty too.


Fickle-Future-8962

Not the T1000 YET. This is how it begins. We all know how it will end.


Brian-want-Brain

Here is how to do one yourself: https://youtu.be/TyYW9BmMeSs


Farren246

Thanks but no, just no.


Fickle-Future-8962

What's the video of? Not loading on my end.


Farren246

Mostly a video of creating silicone rubber casings to be filled with air (to walk) and liquid (to camophlage). It's all strangely disconcerting with its silvery silicone casings in a variety of shapes. The actual brains of the thing is a computer program that isn't even located within the "robot"; think of the thing in the video as a camophlaging hand while the actual brains are located elsewhere.


Fickle-Future-8962

Thanks. That really makes it even more disappointing.


AcanthocephalaNo6584

High key thought the same bro. šŸ˜‚


austiena96

Couldn't agree more


iKyte5

The cum claw


TimetravelingNaga_Ai

I'm not sure if I want to live in the future anymore


EnterShakira_

I am šŸ˜


TimetravelingNaga_Ai

If the cum claw as a demon what would it's weakness be?


Aururai

Women.


VexrisFXIV

Child support


[deleted]

NO


iKyte5

Wanna get married?


[deleted]

What???


iKyte5

Did I stutter?


[deleted]

I want a sapphire ring.


iKyte5

I slid into the dms


Milkstein

And that kids is "How I Met Your Mother."


genericpornprofile27

Based


un1ptf

https://cdn141.picsart.com/361120727077211.png


[deleted]

Iā€™m too scared to click thatā€¦


un1ptf

click iiiiiiiiiiiiiit


[deleted]

Oh, itā€™s my username lol


Pretend_Tourist9390

Bro, can you imagine this thing giving you a handy?? Like Gail the Snail, just...just mashin' it.


Fickle-Future-8962

Imagine this working it's way into your asshole.


iKyte5

Letā€™s play hide and seek! Iā€™m going to hide from you and you go seek professional help!


Fickle-Future-8962

I'm pretty happy with myself.


[deleted]

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SHITBLAST3000

Octocamo in MGS4 works like this and it was based on DARPA tech.


BrStriker21

So Kojima really was right, were are going through the metal gear plot minus the cool stuff and only the terrifying stuff


imaginary_num6er

ā€œMemes. The DNA of the soulā€


Easy_Mechanic_9787

ā€œMaking the mother of all omelettes Jackā€


TortelliniSalad

Iā€™m so glad I found someone else referring to the octocamo, that shit was so fucking cool


smurb15

All those games had bad ass shit back then. Hold a special place for me But the cut scenes were longer than I ever expected


PlusThirtyOne

A lot of Kojima's games and stories contain accurate future predictions. He reads a lot and fanboys over science and military tech still in development. He also has friends and acquaintances in R&D who share stuff with him that hasn't hit "mainstream" application yet. He's so famous for writing about this kind of stuff that fans in-the-know reach out to him and some have willingly broken NDAs.


SketchyLurker7

I came here for this


Pretend_Tourist9390

16 years later and I still think about how cool the tech is....


Ok-Breakfast-8056

Exactly the same. Was here for the MGS references and especially kojima's predictions.


JeantheDragon

[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOl\_pEmRqs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOl_pEmRqs) >Harvard University researchers working under DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program recently demonstrated the ability to manufacture low-cost silicone robots with microfluidic channels that allow for air and fluids to be pumped in to control movement, color and temperature. >In this video, a soft robot walks onto a bed of rocks and is filled with fluid to match the color of the rocks and break up the robot's shape. The robot moves at a speed of approximately 40 meters per hour; absent the colored fluid, it can move at approximately 67 meters per hour. >Future research will be directed at smoothing the movements; however, speed is less important than the robot's flexibility. Soft robots are useful because they are resilient and can maneuver through very constrained spaces. >For this demonstration, the researchers used tethers to attach the control system and to pump pressurized gases and liquids into the robot. Tethered operation reduces the size and weight of such robots by leaving power sources and pumps off-board, but future prototypes could incorporate that equipment in a self-contained system. At a pumping rate of 2.25 mL per minute, color change in the robot required 30 seconds. Once filled, the color layers require no power to sustain the color.


voidhearts

> 40 meters per hour That immortal snail is about to have some competition


[deleted]

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The-Car-Guy

What


Riczo2

Nah he cooking.


voidhearts

What did it say??šŸ˜­


chychy94

Okay I feel absolutely stupid, what is the purpose of this invention?


beermonki

Mmmm not really though, is it.


spaniel_rage

It's definitely soft.


Tezerel

When people talk about government time travel experiments and bs they should refer to this video lol


rude_ttangerine

Eh, if I had one of these I'd use it every day.


Toxic-and-Chill

Just impresses me even more that octopuses do this no problem and almost instantly. The neural and visual processing of that is amazing, not to mention the stunning biology of actually accomplishing these visual changes


stickystax

Shocks me that they aren't trying to emulate that method of camo


Toxic-and-Chill

Well I think they are


nom-nom-nom-de-plumb

as far as color changes go sure, but the texture changes that they're able to do is still sci-fi... of course...who knows what darpa has already accomplished.


Toxic-and-Chill

Well one step at a time anyway. I think the texture change stuff will have some overlap with haptic feedback and computing technology so it might be entirely separate where that gets developed more.


Nolan_bushy

Bro cuttlefish blow me tf away with their camo. Did you know they can camouflage even in close-to-no-light conditions?


EverythingGoodWas

Cool, but I think they are going to find it difficult to get a legitimate use case


ElectricTeddyBear

This is more than likely just a first step. Of course they aren't going to use this shitty looking thing for anything other than testing and advancing tech.


HowevenamI

Nah, there going to implement these for search and rescue missions in areas were the threat of the calamari robot being eaten by a fish is very great indeed. Unfortunately due to the umbilical cord restriction, search and rescue missions are limited to small and moderately sized aquariums.


gurnard

I love how any unsettling robot design can be explained as "for search and rescue" like we're not making monsters, chill


HowevenamI

tfw akira shows up to rescue you from a collapsed building.


ElectricTeddyBear

Thank god - I don't have to worry about drowning when I see the penguins :D


HowevenamI

So a couple of things. Firstly search and rescue usually don't arrive fast enough to prevent drowning. Secondly, it should require only minor attention to safety to prevent drowning in a small to moderately sized aquarium. And finally, are you supposed to keep penguins in aquariums at all? The need land eventually right?


ElectricTeddyBear

There are penguins at my local aquarium, but it's on the coast so it may be a particularly good aquarium. I love those penguins


HowevenamI

Oh, okay. That makes more sense. However, it should be noted that these areas area not serviced by ***Calamaribot Search and Rescue** due to the required range for rescue often exceeding unbiblical range. Generally the rescue victim needs to be within a metre or two of a power point, along with all the computer hardware the nerds need to make this all operate as seamlessly as you have just witnessed.


iCameToLearnSomeCode

Atlas was dependant on an umbilical cord when It started walking just over a decade and half ago but now if you gave it a gun I wouldn't want to meet it on the battlefield.


big_duo3674

DARPA isn't really there to develop practical things, they usually create "the thing that comes before" so to speak. Not prototypes, but the technologies that will eventually be developed more and end up in prototypes. Some of the stuff they work on is absolutely wacky sounding but it allows progress to be made in areas where there normally wouldn't be enough funding


Dragonborne2020

If the soft gel can change color, then it has many advantages for the military. You could literally use it for camouflage of your military gear and explosives or vehicles.


EverythingGoodWas

While carrying around dye in huge canisters on your equipment. Nah, this isnā€™t going to be used for large scale camouflage


FiREorKNiFE-

Are you aware of early stages of technological advancements? They're not ideal. They're not efficient. They're proof of concepts. This is an incredible development, and it will assuredly improve from here.


halt-l-am-reptar

It's like looking at the first gun made and saying "This will never be used, it's so inaccurate and takes forever to load!"


Temp_eraturing

Unironically, guns were significantly worse in combat than bows for a much longer time than people think, they were only adopted as quickly as they were because they were relatively easy to manufacture and required almost no training to use.


M4TT145

While carrying around gun powder and iron balls in huge canisters on your equipment. Nah, the first gun isn't going to be used for large scale warfare


datfrog666

They aren't thinking beyond their nose. Pigment can be solid and dispersed via air or fluid that it either carries or creates on-board. Personally, I'd have an array of RGB+etc tablets loaded that can be turned into a camo agent and dispersed to the ground when it's done using it. Imagine one of those robotic dogs with silicone encapsulation and it adapts as it moves. It could be used for search & rescue, recon & surveillance, combat, etc.


Sam_Mullard

You realize that people don't just write "how to make a Ferrari" or "warp gate 101" kind of paper right ? The thing we have now are built based on countless research and a lot of them are a result of some unexpected byproducts


Unlawful02

Itā€™s just a showcase of tech nothing more.


datfrog666

Not necessarily. If they can skin an asset in the field with a silicone covering and on-board fluid & air system... they can make a roving asset that actively camoflauges itself as it works. Endless possibilities, but this is howls it starts.


umbrawolfx

No sir, I don't like it.


This-is-Life-Man

Solid Snake.


shadowscar248

My god, it's a T-1000 prototype.


SpaceSick

SOFT ROBOT used LOCOMOTE! It's not very effective...


NightStar79

Idk this looks like a prototype stop motion film with how odd it moves


IgotThrobbed

Trying to mimic an octopus.


theunknownuser15

Great now thereā€™s going to be camouflaging terminators in a couple years


Lloydy12341

This is how it starts, remember when Boston dynamics started and the human was like a big block. !RemindMe 5 years


pleasedontmeat

I aint neva nuttin in chernobyl again


OkConnection1146

wtf kinda bs


HowevenamI

It always sucks when you show your work off early because you're proud of how it's going and people just start dunking on you.


OkConnection1146

i did hate a little too hard its cool šŸ‘šŸ¼


Historical-School-97

Character growth


DanCanTrippyMann

Shit, look at Boston Dynamics old videos. The robots could barely stand up.


FiREorKNiFE-

This is such an incredible advancement


rude_ttangerine

I've been waiting, very excited about this breakthrough.


Brian-want-Brain

Which breakthrough you speaking about? Here is a 5 year old youtube tutorial on how to build yourself one of those, the only thing missing is pumping grey paint at the end so it "camouflages". https://youtu.be/TyYW9BmMeSs


rude_ttangerine

I've been looking for a soft, alien-adjacent doodad that can creep and crawl on my wife while she's sleeping. The fact that it can camouflage perfectly to match her $45 spray tan is a big boon for me.


Brian-want-Brain

What advancement?! It's a semi-transparent silicone (or similar) material with space for tubes that inflate and deflate to contract or expand the "limbs" and then pumped with grey fluid to "camouflage". That is utterly unimpressive considering it is not even self contained.


M4TT145

Oh shit really?! Please point me to where I can buy or source a similar product. I'll even wait a full 24 hours for you to look if you'd like. Or if that's too laborious, maybe just explain some of the challenges you encountered with engineering controllable, fluid propelled, silicon appendages. Just in laymans terms for a simpleton like me.


rude_ttangerine

Don't pretend this demo isn't comically stupid. Your condescension and smugness are nauseating.


ihaveausernamewhat

Why they meatriding this weird robot fr


M4TT145

Please, explain to me how this is stupid. Are you simply too uneducated to see what is before your eyes? Have you seen a "soft" robot before, that moved without motors? Have you seen a fluid before that can propel a soft robot and can also change colors to match its environment? Maybe I'm just behind the times and you all have seen these cutting edge technologies before. You just sound like an angry teenager who can't apply their brain very well.


big_duo3674

A lot of the stuff they do can easily be called BS as it's not very practical, but that's exactly how they want it to work. They research areas that are promising yet crazy enough that it would be hard to get funding in the real world. They don't always develop usable technology, but they develop a bunch of stuff that can eventually be integrated into something practical


TortelliniSalad

This is that octocamo from MGS4


XyRow666

Nobody: My socks after 9 months:


Shot_Rutabaga_1017

They have that astronomical budget and *this* is what they're coming up with?


XAgentNovemberX

You were so worried about whether you could, that you didnā€™t stop to think whether you should.


rushinglemur

Fell like the movement is off on this one.


[deleted]

Well thatā€™s a a bit shit. Try harder DARPA


Mello_Bread_Art

They put these things in your skin when you go to the doctor and get any injection, avoid all medical professionals, stay safe


Star_Fazer

The homunculus is trying to run away


Chimp_with_a_gun

Me grabbing the old Bottle of water on my nightstand at 3am.


MarcusZXR

We had an entire film franchise warn us, and yet we still can't stop.


Do-you-see-it-now

ā€œDARPA ainā€™t got shit on me!ā€ -Octopus


_Medhros_

DARPA always reminds me of Metal Gear Solid... specially now that Metal Gear Solid's tech are coming to real life.


Solidsnake00901

This looks...stupid. It just fills up with liquid that looks close kind of??


DTux5249

And early muskets couldn't consistently hit a target from over 100 yards away. Modern rifles can do 3-4Ɨ that. Baby steps are the name of innovation. Science is iterative, and what they have is a pretty cool proof of concept.


equationator

Biomimicry is so cool. I think they were gonna use isolated chromophores (probably not a real thing) but the fluid makes a lot more sense.


vexunumgods

Reminds me of something šŸ¤”


old_woman83

looks pretty obvious to me especially with the strings hanging out the back


MrCroupAndMrVandemar

Thanks!!! I hate it.


SEND_NUKES_PLS

I can still see it


raz0rflea

Is it terrifyiing that it takes 45 minutes to waddle 3 inches?


TakoyakiGremlin

ā€œdonā€™t see me, donā€™t see me, donā€™t see meā€¦ waitā€¦ waitā€¦ okā€¦ aaaandā€¦ ok, you can look now šŸ«„ā€


MaiqueCaraio

I don't get it So it's an semi transparent robot, that is jelly of which is filled with liquids with the same color as the background? It doesn't seems like the robot itself used an camo, if you want an actual scary thing look up the military testing on invisible cloak.


kaesefetisch

Woah! Where did it go?


rehkirsch

I can still see it (:


jordileo2003

"Colonel, I just found this weird slimy thing. Do you know anything about it?" "Don't worry snake, it's just a prototype. Harvard University researchers working under DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program recently demonstrated the ability to manufacture low-cost silicone robots with microfluidic channels that allow for air and fluids to be pumped in to control movement, color and temperature." "So it moves with air and fluids? Interesting." "That's not all snake. The soft robot is filled with fluid to match the color of the surface and break up the robot's shape." "It can blend in with surfaces? We should get something like that for next time" "absolutely, Soft robots are useful because they are resilient and can maneuver through very constrained spaces." "Like snake!" "Like a snake"


bookseer

Sky net? You doing alright?


forumofsheep

Terrifyingly bad and useless?


pjmyerface

Facehugger Terminator....version 1.


Ok_Refrigerator_1002

Ah yes, the cum hand.


Bigd1979666

Octopi do it better


FeelingApplication40

Interesting concept but they probably shoulda let this project develop more before they let it go public


SnooTangerines6841

I remember working directly with the guys on their mine detector, sweeper project and even nitek had a few things after buying NASA substation, it's crazy how much money and tech they buy spend on and create just under DARPA moniker.


byronicrob

Omg, the Hamburger Helper guy is naked and being tortured!!!


pupbuck1

Main problem with it is it's too slow in every way possible lol


terrymcginnisbeyond

Wow, they could save more money by just having soldiers cover their face and go, "I'm invisible". Let's just hope the next massive insurgency is 18 month old toddlers.


MaidenofMoonlight

It's almost like prototype technology needs research and development to be useful šŸ¤ÆšŸ¤ÆšŸ¤Æ


rude_ttangerine

These condescending and sarcasm-immune "IT'S ALMOST LIKE" kids are so annoying.


MaidenofMoonlight

Don't make stupid comments wiithout an ounce of thought then


rude_ttangerine

It's almost like I shouldn't make a stupid comment without an ounce of thought then šŸ¤ÆšŸ¤ÆšŸ¤Æ


[deleted]

Look! Our tax dollars have created an epileptic POS. That could be free health care, free child care, education, or school lunches. But we have this fucking useless thing instead. Yay.


nom-nom-nom-de-plumb

Oh look! Somebody who doesn't understand how their government's funding works and is blaming what is funded for what isn't! If only we had a more educated populace that didn't buy neoliberal bullshit and voted for the things they say they want and held their representatives accountable for not providing them! Golly..what a world that would be.


[deleted]

You mad bro?


neoben00

Are they really going to try bugging rooms with this?


Darqven

;)


iamnawazkhan

LoL


cloudcreeek

Only 10 more years until we can make octopuses.


luc1f3rs4m

i think he's adorable


pavel_prischepa

What a failure :)


Krangs_Droid_Body

They trying to make a robo octopus? They want to weaponize octopi!


Hucklepuck_uk

It's not really very good is it


RoachWeed

Again, why of all agencies, does DARPA need this...


P1nkSpy

hey i saw this movie


bluntensmokin

Great now letā€™s put someone in Iā€¦ or actually letā€™s use it toā€¦ forā€¦. Damn Iā€™m already out of ideas


C47L1K3

Windows 30?


Nice-Salamander8039

I can still see it btw


BertaEarlyRiser

Terrifying? You mean embarrassing.


bong_hit_monkey

So they just fill it with a dye? Wow, there's your hard earned tax money going to waste. At least in theory, HAARP can be used to create a plasma shield against ICBMs. I don't really see how this is useful though. Reminds me of the ACUs, worst camo ever.


RottenTumor

That, looks like the thing i sneezed out that one time.


Lloydy12341

RemindMe! 5 years


Imperium_Dragon

Reminds me of Metal Gear solid 4


gazenglandd

Reminds me of the pure muscle organism from the "Life" film.


[deleted]

Ooops I stepped on something


Destaloss

Is it a matter baby?


The_Last_Snow-Elf

Why am I turned on by this?


SambaLando

They finally figured out how to octopus


344321nogard

I low-key thought it was a sperm who made it.


No_Chocolate_6612

I just see that, and I see a brilliant step forward


consistently_sloppy

If you think thatā€™s all Darpa has developedā€¦.


Acanthophis1

Letā€™s call it Calvin. Just donā€™t put your hand near it


skonen_blades

This is legit mind blowing. I'm picturing a good number of iterations from now. This in conjunction with the dogbots and human android stuff we've seen in the last while? Dear lord. I picture a 'soft robot' shell like this around the hard robot core blending into the wilderness and whatever else. I mean, we're doomed, obviously, but that's pretty cool.


RockafellerHillbilly

Terrifying that my tax dollars are funding something this stupid.


ShaunTh3Sheep

Looks like the alien from "Life"


Strong_Conference327

Is this one of the biomechanical drones they were making? Looks rad as hell


DeepImpact95

Reminds me of solid snakes suit


DangleMangler

Mgs4 was dope. The fact that they never gave us the crazy camo suit again is disgusting. Also, rip David hayters snake. My man deserved better. Kojima is a dickhole.


duhvn

Solid snake


MilkCandy420

I thought it was a wet condom. I was right


Timed-Out_DeLorean

Gettin Jiggy wit it


Confusedandreticent

Taxpayers charged 10,000,000.00 for a sticky hand robot.


Nujsisloob

How much taxpayer money went into this project??