Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor A Swift Kick To The Rear Can Keep This Dog Down
By Beth in Tech, pop culture, quirky newsbits, Big Dog, Boston Dynamics on March 18 2008Boston Dynamics unleashed its 235 lbs of sheer canine engineering wonder and force on YouTube today and its video is already ranked as the Most Watched of the day with 523,896 views. The quadruped robot known as “Big Dog” is the product of $10 Million in DARPA funding and measures 1 meter tall and 2 meters wide. Founded in 1992, Boston Dynamics was tasked with developing a robot that could ” run, maneuver and jump to avoid obstacles.”
It would seem that the company accomplished this and then some with the impressive attributes of this robot. Given its agility and freakishly human-like reactions to sustaining kicks (high point of the video, by the way), this particular breed of robot can handle whatever comes its way (rough terrain, snow, mean humans).
