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Like the dawn of artificial intelligence, the arrival of the BigDog robot -- the most advanced robot on the planet -- creeps people out. On YouTube, where videos of the robot performing maneuvers that ...
Boston Dynamics' BigDog may have already been replaced by the beefier LS3, but that doesn't mean it's totally obsolete. Today the company unveiled a version of the quadruped equipped with an arm where ...
About two years ago, DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveiled the gigantic and strange-looking BigDog, a quadruped robot that was intended to be a pack mule of sorts and engineered to walk on any type of ...
Boston Dynamics, the robotics company behind AlphaDog, Petman, and Cheetah, has now outfitted its BigDog robot with an arm that's capable of flinging 50-pound (23kg) concrete blocks across a room at ...
You remember BigDog, don’t you? It’s that loud all-terrain prototype robot quadruped that peopled your dreams with Terminator-esque nightmares when you saw the video. DARPA just awarded a $32 million ...
The goal of the U.S. Army’s BigDog program is to develop four-legged robots capable of following soldiers across any kind of terrain. Roughly the size of a large dog or small mule, the robot is ...
Remember the original BigDog? That funny robot pack animal? Well, a supersized version has been let off the leash--and it ain't so funny anymore. We last saw the brute when Boston Dynamics unveiled ...
Boston Dynamics first hit the scene in 2005 with the introduction of a three-foot-long, two-and-a-half-foot-wide, 240-pound robot named BigDog. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
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Boston Dynamics' BigDog rough-terrain robot just got even more terrifying, with the addition of a front-mounted arm that lets it toss around cinderblocks like soda cans. To get the job done, the ...