Christmas with Boston Dynamics
Around our house, Boston Dynamics are the rock stars of robotic technology. Finding that they’ve distributed a new video on youtube is like waking up to a full stocking on Christmas morning. I’ve posted previously about their most famous design, The Big Dog, but here’s an updated video – now with 50% more “Holy #$%@, did you SEE that?”
[youtube_sc url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ]
The bit where it’s climbing cement blocks near the end got me wondering what happened to an older off-shoot of the Big Dog project, Little Dog:
[youtube_sc url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIipbi0cAVE]
Back to having my mind blown with new content though, they’ve managed to get The Petman up to 4.4mph!
What’s The Petman you may ask? It’s either the cutting edge in bipedal robots or walking wide-awake nightmare fuel.
[youtube_sc url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja_UsmXVPVk]
I have to admit that’s pretty neat BUT it will creep me out for the rest of the day. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Big Dog ends up in my crazy pregnant brain nightmares.
What wouldn’t you want a baby carriage that’s actually the bottom half of a shambling zombie robot?
Oh wait, no, that’s TERRIFYING.
(or maybe terrifyingly /awesome/.)