Big Dog by Boston Dynamics: “Wait…I think that’s my ex-husband.”
December 10th, 2008 by AndreBig Dog is freaking me out, with it’s surrealistic natural movements (check out the trousers it has – looks like two small people are desperately stuck inside of it. Point is, that you know there are only those two legs and no corpse. I am shivering.) At the same time one can also give lots of kudos to the developers from an engineering point of view. Look at the lunge it makes when it’s kicked or on slippery ice.
As an accompanying literature I suggest this Telepolis article (sorry, only in German).
June 17th, 2009 at 14:30
[...] some readers will remember Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, which freaked me out and fascinated me at the same time. Well, although we [...]