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Wow, it's taken us so long to get (something like) this thing going. 37 years now, and Boston Dynamics is only now in the final steps of productizing v1.

• kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
  The Timberjack walking tree harvester was mostly ready for commercialization.
  • tpmx 7y ago
    Got a link?
    • snerbles 7y ago
      This was their promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftV2HeKPeBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftV2HeKPeBM Timberjack was bought by John Deere in 2000, and the subsidiary discontinued in '06.
      • tpmx 7y ago
        That looked neat.. but also impractical. Way too slow. It's interesting that it came from Finland.
• GeorgeTirebiter 7y ago
  Boston Dynamics' CEO, Marc Raibert, was a professor at CMU at the same time, and Marc and Ivan are good pals. Little-known fact: Ivan convinced Marc to start doing work in legged locomotion! So, in a way, Ivan is responsible for modern legged locomotion by 'seeding' the field with a genius like Marc Raibert! Here's some of what was going on at CMU at the same time as Ivan's Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_ZKXo6Rlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_ZKXo6Rlg
  • bpicolo 7y ago
    This video was extremely cool. Thanks for sharing! Legged robots are so endearing.
    • GeorgeTirebiter 7y ago
      Glad you liked it. Boston Dynamics is an overnight success only 40-ish years in the making... ! See also this Scientific American article of theirs https://www.academia.edu/28215739/Machines_That_Walk https://www.academia.edu/28215739/Machines_That_Walk