Video interlude: Big Dog robot

by Mathew on March 17, 2008 · View Comments

This is very cool, and yet kind of creepy at the same time. If you thought robots still couldn’t do very well at walking like regular people — or even animals — watch how the Big Dog handles walking through the forest, or crossing the slippery ice on a pond (turn down the sound though, because the buzzing of the motor is pretty irritating). Be sure to watch the part where the guy pushes it as hard as he can without knocking it over.

(found via a link on FriendFeed)

Update:

This video now has about 1.3 million views, just two days after it went up on YouTube. There’s more info on the robot in this NineMSN story.

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  • http://www.jeffreymclarty.com/jm McLarty

    That's awesome Mathew! Thanks for sharing. Hey – anybody from the Globe coming out to the University of Waterloo's Mechatronics Symposium? Fourth year students working on stuff, some pretty unique things, you may or may not dig it. I can get you details is you want. It's a bunch of Engineers working on small/strange/unique ideas, and we present prototypes…I'm a fourth year, I'll be presenting. Don't know if it's high enough profile stuff to peak your fancy.

  • http://www.mathewingram.com/work mathewi

    Not sure if I can make it, but sounds interesting. Send me some
    details at mingram@globeandmail.com and I'll see what I can do. I
    remember friends of mine starting Robot Wars at U of W back in the day
    – one of whom was Mark Tilden, inventor of the Robosapien.

    On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Disqus

  • D Steele

    Wow. Four legs good, two legs bad?

  • Maggy Young

    Clever sure, but some dog ! I thought it was an enlarged walking bumble bee & the motor buzz fits with this.

  • http://colincarmichael.ca Colin Carmichael

    I just noticed this video now has over 1.2M views on YouTube – in just two days!

    While looking around for more BigDog stuff I came across a handy little site that seems to collect all of the videos of BigDog and its creepy cousins: http://bigdogrobotvideos.com

  • http://www.mathewingram.com/work mathewi

    Thanks, Colin.

    On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Disqus

  • http://opentopersuasion.com/2008/03/22/i-not-robot/ I not robot… : Open to persuasion…

    [...] to Mathew Ingram and David Weinberger, I have just marvelled at these two in quick succession, and found myself [...]

  • http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/23/video-my-new-favourite-robot/ Video: My new favourite robot – - mathewingram.com/work

    [...] favourite robot was the so-called “Big Dog” robot from Boston Dynamics, which has an amazing ability to remain standing, even when walking on ice and being shoved by the foot of its human master [...]

  • http://www.hundefeber.no Hund

    because the buzzing of the motor is pretty irritating.
    Be sure to watch the part where the guy pushes it as
    hard as he can without knocking it over.

  • http://www.bolinaoph.com/ Bolinao

    This robot is awesome but it is noisy and lacks a good design.

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