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Alpha Dog Robot Going to Boot Camp
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Boston Dynamics‘ LS3 Alpha Dog robot was designed to help American soldiers as a way to carry almost 400 pounds of gear on difficult terrain in the field. Now Alpha Dog is finally ready to enter basic training. That’s because this quadruped robot has some refinement that need to be… |
February 10th, 2012
HyQ Quadruped Robot Kicks, Trots and Rears Up
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If they create anymore quadruped robots, we are going to need to build some robotic zoos to house them. We have BigDog, AlphaDog and now HyQ. HyQ was developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), in Genoa. This hydraulic quadruped can do a bunch of new tricks.… |
October 31st, 2011
Boston Dynamics BigDog Robot: Will it Eat PIGORASS for Lunch?
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A reader pointed out that the PIGORASS four-legged robot I mentioned yesterday was somewhat flimsy (I don’t agree) compared to this more sturdy offering from Boston Dynamics. They call it the BigDog and it will most probably eat your real dog for lunch (it can be weaponized).… |
September 7th, 2011
PIGORASS 4-Legged Robot Jumps and Gallops on Its Own
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Walking is hard enough for robots, but check out this ‘bot that can do so on four legs. He might become your future dog, if all goes according to plan for its Japanese inventors.… |
September 6th, 2011
1960s Walking Truck: The First AT-AT?
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I always wondered how practical a giant manned walking robot like the AT-ATs in The Empire Strikes Back… would really be. Well a long, long time ago, at a General Electric factory far, far away, it turns out an actual quadruped manned robot was in development. |
May 26th, 2011
Rise V3 Pole Climbing Robot Scales Vertical Surfaces With Tiny, Sharp Claws – Just Like My Cat Climbs My Leg
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This amazing bit of mechanical technology not only can run on the ground, it can ascend difficult to scale surfaces like trees and telephone poles. Designed by Boston Dynamics, working with researchers from The University of Pennsylvania’s Kod*lab, the RiSE V3 robot can work its way up poles without cracking… |
May 12th, 2009
