I'm sure you've all thought about manhacks, those terrifying red-eyed razor-blade drones from Half-Life 2. Maybe you thought about how awesome their design was, or how useful their real-life implementation could be. Well, guess what? They exist now! 
 
Some fine gentlemen at the GRASP Lab, at the University of Pennsylvania have created the "Aggressive Quadrotor," an autonomous (yeah - hands free, not remote controlled) flying nightmare, that somehow gives off a sound more ominous than the Half-Life manhacks. Basically, these guys tell the thing the general path that they want it to follow, and then it tackles any obstacle in the way to get there. Throw a hula-hoop at it? It will literally time itself so that it can pass through the ring without bumping the edge. 

"Wait! I don't wanna waste the battery! I wanna throw it from the front-lines into a house full of terrorists!" 
Well, sure thing. You can kick this thing like a soccer-ball, and - just like the manhack - will adjust itself mid-air to full stability. 
 
But hey, I'm not one to tease people about such things, so here's a video of it getting ready to fly through some warehouse windows and cut up some rebels: 
 
    

I'm sure you've all thought about manhacks, those terrifying red-eyed razor-blade drones from Half-Life 2. Maybe you thought about how awesome their design was, or how useful their real-life implementation could be. Well, guess what? They exist now! 
 
Some fine gentlemen at the GRASP Lab, at the University of Pennsylvania have created the "Aggressive Quadrotor," an autonomous (yeah - hands free, not remote controlled) flying nightmare, that somehow gives off a sound more ominous than the Half-Life manhacks. Basically, these guys tell the thing the general path that they want it to follow, and then it tackles any obstacle in the way to get there. Throw a hula-hoop at it? It will literally time itself so that it can pass through the ring without bumping the edge. 

"Wait! I don't wanna waste the battery! I wanna throw it from the front-lines into a house full of terrorists!" 
Well, sure thing. You can kick this thing like a soccer-ball, and - just like the manhack - will adjust itself mid-air to full stability. 
 
But hey, I'm not one to tease people about such things, so here's a video of it getting ready to fly through some warehouse windows and cut up some rebels: 
 
    

Holy fucking shit. This is half scary, and half awesome.

It's not on eBay yet :(

Its like the thing Will and Norm are testing...only scarrier :|

Holy Fuck! That is terrifying! It moves so fast! Some day they could have one of those zip around a battlefield with some cameras and build up a 3d map of the place. Shit, they could map the inside of a house, before anyone had any time to react! And if they put a bomb on it, think of the shrapnel those spinning rotors would make! That is some scary shit! I imagine it would make for some rather effective psychological warfare. It's also some really impressive engineering, but damn! Scary!

Oh shit, where's my crowbar...

" Holy Fuck! That is terrifying! It moves so fast! Some day they could have one of those zip around a battlefield with some cameras and build up a 3d map of the place. Shit, they could map the inside of a house, before anyone had any time to react! And if they put a bomb on it, think of the shrapnel those spinning rotors would make! That is some scary shit! I imagine it would make for some rather effective psychological warfare. It's also some really impressive engineering, but damn! Scary! "

Yeah, the robot apocalypse is coming up pretty damn quick. 
 
    

Or this one, can stick on walls: 
 
  

The next WW3 will be fought by robots.
 
(if nukes fail)

Yo check this out: 
  

" @JJWeatherman: Pretty neat. I remember Norm playing with that at ...GDC? I donno, though, it seems like a toy in comparison with this new thing. Something tells me the "Aggressive Quadrotor" would cut through that Parrot AR Drone like butter. And then rape its parents. "

Man, FUCK progress >=(

I'm pretty sure I died from my cold and I'm now in limbo.

" I'm pretty sure I died from my cold and I'm now in limbo. "

" I'm pretty sure I died from my cold and I'm now in limbo. "

Dammit, have all these people learned NOTHING from Terminator???

That's so fucking crazy. 

jesus, theres a bit in that video, when he first throws the hoop up, when he catches it the bot looks like its gonna go for another pass through and the dude drops it and looks terrified doing so

A little disappointed. My pants remain shitless. 
 
Sweet find nonetheless. Humanity is full of champions.

I'm glad I'm old. I'll be long gone before they take my ass. Good luck kids.

I cant imagine even trying to outrun one of these things, manhacks have nothing on them 
  

One thing that freaks me out is this video is probably made recently.  The American government technology is 3-7 years ahead of American society, Japanese and Chinese governments technology are about 10 years ahead of American society. So honesty seeing this video is freaking scary because if these guys JUST developed this flying contraption, I don't want to see whats already been made.

I want to tell all those people, "look, just stop. No, I don't care if you think it's cool, it's stupid and you're going to kill us. You're done."

 Bigdog is just to 'silent hills' for me a makes me uneasy. 
 
 
 
 

* readies crowbar

" One thing that freaks me out is this video is probably made recently.  The American government technology is 3-7 years ahead of American society, Japanese and Chinese governments technology are about 10 years ahead of American society. So honesty seeing this video is freaking scary because if these guys JUST developed this flying contraption, I don't want to see whats already been made. "

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" jesus, theres a bit in that video, when he first throws the hoop up, when he catches it the bot looks like its gonna go for another pass through and the dude drops it and looks terrified doing so "