The BigDog, from Boston Dynamics, a company specializing in human simulation, is just weird. A robotic pack mule that runs on petrol, travels at up to 3.3mph over all sorts of terrain, and can carry up to 120 lb, BigDog has received $10 million of funding from the Pentagon. Check how it moves in a 2006 video after the jump.
Robotic Pack Mule is More Pantomime Horse than BigDog
7:47 AM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By Addy Dugdale
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Impressive. I hope they're working on a sixty foot tall model as well.
...with guns and an appetite for human flesh.
Meh. Wouldn't an autonomous ATV be more effective in every way? It could carry much more, require less maintenance, go pretty much anywhere this could, and do it at 60mph.
Yea...keep kicking it now while you still can. Wait 20 years from now when these things have artifical inteligence. Then try to kick it.
First saw this video 5 or 6 years ago.
This is EXACTLY what I need for my crystite mining operation!
i have no fancy link, but this is DEFINETLEY a repost.
kinda loud isn't it?
does anybody else find this thing really creepy? the sound it makes is pretty weird, too. and this is pretty old, i think ive seen a video of an updated version of it.
In the future, history will preserve this video as the one that started the war between humans and robots. Of course, robot history.. we'll all be dead. :P
But seriously, this is both creepy and awsome! Creepy because the legs looks like real horse legs.
Or maybe like 2 people stuck in a steel coffin with their legs hanging out.. whatever
But awsome! I mean, one of the things you see people developing robots have more dificult is to maintain their robots straight. Like the video from Asimo falling off some stairs.
It seemed kinda stuck depending on terrain though.
ten million dollars?!
*deep breath*
TEN MILLION DOLLARS?!?
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