It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next.

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Been a really long time since we have been out to Thailand. Well lets go back boys cause there is fire over there that has been start by one fine hottie. She is young, hot, beautiful and sexy. Right now she is a VJ over at MTV Asia and burns up every body’s TV screen. I don’t even want to think what she does to HD. Some of you international travels may know her, for everyone else today’s Babe of the Week is Taya Rogers

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Been a really long time since we have been out to Thailand. Well lets go back boys cause there is fire over there that has been start by one fine hottie. She is young, hot, beautiful and sexy. Right now she is a VJ over at MTV Asia and burns up every body’s TV screen. I don’t even want to think what she does to HD. Some of you international travels may know her, for everyone else today’s Babe of the Week is Taya Rogers

Rosario Dawson, who wowed pulp fiction fans as the machine-gun-toting sex bomb in Sin City, gets a little more strait-laced in Gemini Division, a 50-episode web series that launches Monday.

Dawson (pictured) plays an NYPD vice cop who gets entangled in a war between artificial SIMs life forms and the covert “Gemini” group.

The Electric Farm-produced online drama will be shown on GeminiDivision.com, NBC.com and SciFi.com, according to NBC Universal Digital Studio. Gemini is the studio’s first original online series.

Gemini creator Brent Friedman, who also wrote the online series AfterWorld, promises that he won’t waste time on a slow build-up.

George Lucas has insisted that the Star Wars movies are not science fiction.

The franchise creator said science has little connection with the universe he invented for the films.

He is quoted as saying: “We look at it as a different dimension. The laws of physics are different here. Star Wars is not science fiction at all. It’s much more attuned to mythology, to psychology, to history than it is to science.

“It’s more of a parable about the way we are, rather than the way we’re going to be. That’s why it starts out as a fairytale - a long time ago in a galaxy far away - once upon a time.

“It deals with princesses. It’s purposely designed not to be about where we’re going. It’s about where we’ve been and what we can learn from the past in the present.”

Sci Fi Channel ordered up a two-hour Battlestar Galactica movie, set to debut in 2009 following the conclusion of the popular science-fiction series.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release a DVD of the movie shortly after its premiere on Sci Fi.

The movie will take place before the events of Galactica, with Cylons dealing with survivors following an attempt at wiping out the human race. Michael Trucco, Aaron Douglas and Dean Stockwell of Galactica will join the movie’s cast, with additional actors to be announced later.

August 7, 2008 - Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron calls his forthcoming 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar “the most challenging film I’ve ever made.”

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron said, “You have to make a good film that would be a good film under any circumstances. … You have to put the narrative first. The reality is no matter how many (3-D) screens we get, you are still going to have a large number of people — possibly the majority of people — who see the film in a 2-D environment.”

The trade says that Cameron expects the final film — which he shot using the Fusion 3-D camera system — to be roughly “60% CG animation, based on characters created using a newly developed performance capture-based process, and 40% live action, with a lot of VFX in the imagery.”

Avatar, starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, opens Dec. 18, 2009.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Laurence Fishburne is in talks to replace William Petersen as the star of CBS’ veteran crime drama “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

The search for a new lead has been shrouded in secrecy, but sources say Fishburne is being heavily courted to play the new character, described as a doctor/scientist outsider to the CSI unit who has the same genetic profile as a serial killer but hasn’t previously acted on any homicidal impulses.

Fishburne, an Oscar nominee for “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” had been mentioned as one of the “CSI” producers’ top choices for the role, along with John Malkovich and Kurt Russell.

The discovery of water on Mars might spur a lot of interest in the science fiction dream of terraforming the Red Planet into a habitable place. That could be good for Avatar Reality, a virtual world company in Honolulu that is building “Blue Mars,” a 3-D world with ambitious graphics and a setting that takes place after the successful colonization of Mars.

It is the brainchild of Kazuo Hashimoto, chief executive officer, and his cofounder Li-Han Chen, vice president of development. It is being bankrolled so far by Henk Rogers, the video game pioneer who discovered Tetris and brought it to the West.

Their virtual world has some of the prettiest graphics I’ve ever seen and is one of the most ambitious in the works; but, then, they’re used to big bets. Their last collaboration was on the “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” movie, a $137 million computer-animated film that was an artistic tour de forcewhen it debuted in 2001 but bombed in the market.

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Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - The Sci Fi Channel is planning to give “Stargate Atlantis” fans their fix of the show by running it through the fall.

“Stargate Atlantis” will serve as a lead-in to newcomer “Sanctuary,” which stars “Atlantis” alum Amanda Tapping.

“Sanctuary” is scheduled to launch on October 3 with a two-hour premiere. Then, beginning October 10 “Atlantis” will air at 9 p.m. followed by “Sanctuary” at 10 p.m.

Sci Fi has also said its six-hour “Ghost Hunters Live” event will air on October 31.

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Behind the absurdity, sci-fi mystery takes on serious questions about God and faith

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SAN DIEGO — At the 30th Anniversary Battlestar Galactica panel at Comic-Con International, “X-Men” producer Tom DeSanto talked about the Battlestar Galactica that almost was a direct sequel to the original series. Starting in 1998, DeSanto worked with director Bryan Singer to bring a continuation of the series to television.

After some initial confusion about who owned the rights, Singer and DeSanto pitched a $13.5 million backdoor pilot to FOX in July 2000. A series pickup was contingent on the ratings.

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New York, NY (CNS) - Shows like “Stargate Atlantis” and “Scare Tactics” have helped the Sci-Fi Channel ratings growth draw new viewers with its best July ever among young and female viewers.

Sci-Fi is the 6th ranked basic cable entertainment network among adults 25-54 and was ranked in the top ten among males 18-49 and males 25-54.

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