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Video interlude: Big Dog robot
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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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.
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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
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