Spooky Boston Dynamics Big Dog Robot

March 17th, 2008

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.


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