botjunkie.com - 2/26/2009
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I love Big Dog, but I swear, that video drives me up the wall. Both the reporter and anchor obviously aren’t comfortable in front of a camera and their on-screen time feels forced and contrived. As a side note I’ve always found it amusing and endearing how Big Dog will keep working its legs even ...
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Boston Dynamics' BigDog Robot Sets New World Record
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... Boston Dynamics, has set a new world autonomous distance record. At 2.5-miles per hour, it traveled 12.8-miles "autonomously avoiding obstacles and dealing with varied terrain until its fuel ran out." Continue reading for the BigDog spoof, which is an oldie but goodie.
This is pretty impressive, but not good enough for DARPA, who wants a legged robot with a range of 20 miles and a 400 pound payload for its new Legged Squad Support System program.
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This Week On BotJunkie
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By Evan Ackerman
This week on BotJunkie began with a video from the Austrian cocktail robotics festival Roboexotica, then we got a little miffed at Klutz for not crediting Evil Mad Scientist Labs for Bristlebots, bet that an android called BERTI would eventually win at rock paper scissors, saw a new video featuring everyone’s favorite quadrupedal military robot BigDog, learned how to make a bunch of little robots out of household materials from Make: Magazine, admired some embroidery celebrating the fact that ...
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