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  • VIDEO: Brilliant but freaky robot dog

    VIDEO: Brilliant but freaky robot dog

    Learning locomotion with LittleDog 24 May 2010 13:04 GMT

    If you get creeped out by spiders, spindly legged-things or the thought that the Terminator movies could actually happen, look away now.

    Boston Dynamics, creator of BigDog, has built a smaller, weirder version of its robot canine, which has...

  • VIDEO: BigDog makers Reveal PetMan

    VIDEO: BigDog makers reveal PetMan

    Boston Dynamics creates biped robotic 27 October 2009 11:07 GMT

    The makers of BigDog have unveiled PetMan, a biped robotic that could be used to test military suits that might one day protect soldiers in chemical warfare.

    Boston Dynamics describes the machine as a "biped robot that balances dynamically...

  • RiSE V3 pole climbing robot developed by Boston Dynamics

    RiSE V3 pole climbing robot developed by Boston Dynamics

    With "claws crafted from surgical needles" 13 May 2009 17:27 GMT

    The University of Pennsylvania's Kod*lab robotics department and Boston Dynamics (the folk behind the brilliant Big Dog) have teamed up to create a pole climbing robot, the results of which you can see in the video above.

    RiSE V3 can climb...

  • VIDEO: Robo dog with animal like strength. Gadgets, Robots, Boston Dynamics, Big Dog 0

    VIDEO: Robo dog with animal like strength

    Doesn't look that cuddly though does it 18 March 2008 17:41 GMT

    This must be one of the freakiest things you'll see this week - impressive - but you'll probably want to run away run away from this thing even faster than you would a rottweiler.

    Big Dog is the result of Boston Dynamics' brief to create...

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