dans.blog: Boston Dynamic's BigDog Quadruped robot is pretty amazing...

It's pretty cool to see this kind of robotics in motion. This is definitely something you want to watch all the way through. The highlights for me were watching it regain it's balance after being shoved and after slipping on ice. It's also pretty cool to watch it run and jump. It's pretty spooky just how close it looks like a quadpedal creature.

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5 Comments

Jim Priest
Mar 17, 2008 @ 3:14 PM

Wow. That's really impressive... They need to work on the sound though. That's buzzing is too dang creepy...
Dan G. Switzer, II
Mar 17, 2008 @ 4:48 PM

@Jim: I agree that the motor on the generator is annoying. They really should have just removed the audio from the video track altogether.
Jim Priest
Mar 17, 2008 @ 6:29 PM

And replaced it with some Iron Maiden :)
Santiago Sanchez Rivera
Mar 21, 2008 @ 11:22 AM

Those guys don’t understand the real beauty of this robot. The fact that human can build and programming an autonomous robot that can walk like a dog is really amazing. Visit http://www.bdi.com for more information.
masoud jafarie
Oct 21, 2008 @ 4:11 AM

it is realy interesting for me how stable after sleeping on ice , please explain about algorithm of program to control of dog stability .

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