The Most Amazing Robot in the world! DARPA BigDog

rajitha_ks · Aug 14, 2010

guys this could probably be the most advanced robot in the world.

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dog

The project is funded by DARPA (Defense advanced research project agency), the same guys that funded the ARPANET (which later came to known as Internet)

BigDog is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 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 that would defeat wheels. The legs contain a variety of sensors, including joint position and ground contact. BigDog also features a laser gyroscope and a stereo vision system

(wikipedia)