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Awesome technology - Boston Dynamics.

Discussion in 'Off Topic - All other stuff here' started by Archie, Feb 11, 2015.

  1. Archie

    Archie Eternal tinkerer

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    Great video of their latest horse/dog robot.

    "Rhino" makes an appearance too.

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    Rhino needs to lose a bit of weight for climbing those hills!
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    Archie Eternal tinkerer

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    You just know that the US Army will strap a gattling gun to those things eventually!

    Not far off ED-209!! (Still the best looking ped-bot ever conceived IMHO!)
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    PETA should protest against kicking this animal in this video! poor one
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    my good... is it the rebocop bad robot? woow.
    nice, nice post!
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    I have seen a video of some earlier version of that robot and I got shivers when they made it to walk on slippery ice, it looked so alive trying to keep it's balance it was scary.

    Very cool stuff!
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    Boston Dynamics company was acquired by Google in 2013. there is a lot of interesting videos.
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