BigDog: a robotic tank mule for the future

Feb 22, 2010

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This blew me away—genuine all-terrain robotics from Boston Dynamics. My collaborator Brian Glenney wondered aloud whether this kind of technology might, in another form, supercede the wheelchair model in the future? Worth watching all the way through, as this sentient-ish creature rights itself on ice, etc.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&w=560&h=315]