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BigDog: The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth

• michaelneale 18y ago
  Its impressive, but what I find depressing is that for it to be portable they have to use internal combustion engines (that have the side effect of making it look sound like a mosquito). Its sad because I guess that makes fossil fuels still the most energy dense and practical portable form of energy. Its am amazing achievement on the robotics side though.
• brk 18y ago
  That video has been around for a while and is actually very out of date. Here is a more humanized version of it now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
  • Protophore 18y ago
    Wow, that's amazing. It looks so life-like! Those engineers got it right on this one like they made it out of some spare human parts.
  • jmatt 18y ago
    Excellent, thanks for the entertaining link.
  • goodness 18y ago
    The slo-mo replay is brilliant
• DabAsteroid 18y ago
  http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+bigdog http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+b... http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+%22big+dog%22+video http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+%...
  • jmatt 18y ago
    Yeah I did a search but failed to find it. The advice is - in that case - to just post it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276660 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276660
• joshu 18y ago
  Some more footage: http://www.youtube.com/v/VXJZVZFRFJc http://www.youtube.com/v/VXJZVZFRFJc