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Big Dog by Boston Dynamics: "Wait...I think that's my ex-husband."

· Andre Hoffmann · in Technology
Big 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).

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