tisdag 4 oktober 2011

Boston Dynamics' Bigger BigDog Robot Is Alive


UPDATE 9/30 4:05 a.m.: Video of Boston Dynamics' new, bigger quadruped, called AlphaDog, is here. Boston Dynamics, the company that brought the world the beloved BigDog quadruped robot, is now showing off its newest beast. The official name is LS3 (Legged Squad Support System), but it seems that the Boston Dynamics guys are calling it BullDog instead. Marc Raibert, the flower-patterned-shirt-wearing founder and president of Boston Dynamics, discussed the LS3 project in a keynote talk today at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems....[Read the full article]