Parody: BigDog Beta | Sangent - The Daily Ramblings

submitted by Sang on 03.30.2008 in Videos/Funny Videos

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.

BigDog is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the hopes that it will be able to serve as a robotic pack mule to accompany soldiers in terrain too rough for conventional vehicles.

Instead of wheels or treads, BigDog uses four legs for movement, allowing it to move across surfaces which would defeat wheels. The legs feature a variety of sensors in them, including joint position and ground contact.

BigDog also features a laser gyroscope and a stereo vision system.

Unfortunately, this is the parody video of BigDog. Here is the real one for those interested.

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