BB Gadgets: Big Dog robotic pack mule on ice and snow

From BB Gadgets:

This new video of "Big Dog," the amazing quadrupedal robot from Boston Dynamics, shows of its latest tricks: the ability to walk through snow and even over ice, catching itself when it slips and falls. Its normal gait is unnatural, but when it starts to scramble to recover it looks eerily real.

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Scoop: New video of BDI's Big Dog robot [Spectrum.IEEE.org via Gizmodo] (Thanks, Douglas!!)

[#1 posted by peebz , March 17, 2008 2:45 PM]

Couldn't they have got it to carry something other than bags of wasps? That buzzing would really start to annoy me after a couple of miles...

[#2 posted by Rutiger , March 17, 2008 2:46 PM]

I think Joel over at gadgets beat you to it.

[#3 posted by jody , March 17, 2008 2:47 PM]

Too bad the thing sounds like an asthmatic lawnmower, not to mention it doesn't walk very fast.

[#4 posted by pork musket , March 17, 2008 2:50 PM]

*Another* duplicate from BB Gadgets.

[#5 posted by shannonpatrick17 , March 17, 2008 2:50 PM]

Quick someone kick it to see if it's stable!
ah ok, good

[#6 posted by mdpaustin , March 17, 2008 2:53 PM]

Yes, but will you use it for Energy, Food, Smithore or Crystite?

[#7 posted by djam , March 17, 2008 2:55 PM]

very impressive, it knows how to stablise and avoid falling over.

[#8 posted by jcarlile , March 17, 2008 2:55 PM]

all I could think was 'wheezing mule'...

[#9 posted by GammaBlog , March 17, 2008 2:58 PM]

It needs a big fake furry coat for its voyage to the uncanny valley.

[#10 posted by Takuan , March 17, 2008 3:02 PM]

wow, that's some balance recovery sensors.

Imagine meeting that in the woods...alone.