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BigDog: The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth (bostondynamics.com)
15 points by jmatt on Sept 8, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


That video has been around for a while and is actually very out of date. Here is a more humanized version of it now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc


Wow, that's amazing. It looks so life-like! Those engineers got it right on this one like they made it out of some spare human parts.


The slo-mo replay is brilliant


Excellent, thanks for the entertaining link.


Its impressive, but what I find depressing is that for it to be portable they have to use internal combustion engines (that have the side effect of making it look sound like a mosquito).

Its sad because I guess that makes fossil fuels still the most energy dense and practical portable form of energy.

Its am amazing achievement on the robotics side though.




Yeah I did a search but failed to find it. The advice is - in that case - to just post it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276660




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