Watched this tonight and it blew me away. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before. BigDog is a quadruped robot created in 2005 by a firm called Boston Dynamics and JPL and funded, of course, by DARPA. Bloody amazing balance this thing has. Mind bending the computations required to get this to work under these conditions (in snow, on ice, jumping, being kicked in the side while walking, etc).
Big Dog – Amazing Robot
by cameron | Mar 25, 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 comments
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Wow! Fascinating and scary at the same time. Kinda reminds me of the Hunters in HalfLife 2. There’s a lot of really good technology going on there.
That is awesome! I was thinking more like the Star Wars AT-AT Walker. That thing on the ice looked like me at lunchtime today sliding all over the wet pavement 🙂
That IS amazing – its movements are so human.
Yeah, pretty amazing….. but can it lick it’s own balls?