Saturday, September 6, 2008

"they're learning..."

The Big Dog from Boston Dynamics is designed to navigate across various kinds of terrain while keeping its balance. From their site:

It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads.

The video features the Big Dog slipping and recovering on ice, getting kicked around, and jumping over a specified area.



Boston Dynamics has a series of similar robots, the Rhex, the RiSE, and the Little Dog. All of which have specific methods to deal with their terrain.

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