Amazing BigDog Quadruped Robot by Boston Dynamics

by Scott Beale on March 17, 2008 · 10 comments

Here are a couple of videos of the amazing and somewhat creepy all terrain BigDog Quadruped Robot created by Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that specializes in robotics and human simulation.

It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.

via Gizmodo

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1 Peter Flaschner March 17, 2008 at 6:03 pm

Why do I feel like I’m watching archival footage put together by the survivors of a robot uprising?

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2 G. Carter Stokum March 17, 2008 at 7:44 pm

no, that’s not KINDA creepy… IT’S Realllly Creepy…. I just think of this thing crawling unstopibly over terrain hunting humans ala Terminator… BUT, it is VERRY VERRY COOL AS WELL >_<

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3 Al Billings March 17, 2008 at 11:46 pm

Man, if I owned that thing, I’d attach some fake eyes and wings for a giant fly to it. I mean, *that* would make it creepier.

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4 Danger Ranger March 18, 2008 at 9:58 am

Can you visualize packs of these robots hunting down the last few humans in a post-singularity world?

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5 sean hamilton alexander March 18, 2008 at 6:29 pm

think of what this could do for car-camping…

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