Machine Thinking

Germany’s Professor Michael Stoll recently was recently handed a fabulous collection of 1960s US Steel artwork

See more on his flickr page.

While normally vintage machine tech is more likely to be found here, the new Boston Dynamics Big Dog project is impressive enough to make an exception. With the ability to trot, jump and catch itself from falling like an animal would is impressive - that it does it with a load three times heavier than itself is amazing. For $10M DARPA seems to have got it’s money worth.