Boston Big Dog

Andyman · #1 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

Amazing.......science fiction is almost science fact!

YouTube - Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)

T34C · #2 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

OK, that was creepy.

TrueBlue · #3 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

Amazing how close robotics engineers are getting to recreating animal instincts and movements. At first, I thought it was two guys facing each other under an engine contraption. Then I thought it was some freak animal with birth defects . . actually had me concerned as that guy kicked it.

artbyjody · #4 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

Pity they didn't show it chasing a car or ....think I will keep my hounds around for awhile still....

xort · #5 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

Looked & sounded like a giant 4 legged fly.

sailaway21 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

Man that was spooky. Something just like that crawled out of my wife's underwear on the floor the other night. I mashed it with a shoe but it just kept buzzing. It was gone in the morning. Do you think it's related?

Alden68 · #7 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

wasn't that the animal from the movie Top Secret?

PorFin · #8 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

Why am I not surprised that this project is funded by DARPA?

Destined I'm sure to be enjoyed and admired by some of the same folks who paradoxically want to prune away the "discretionary" spending form the defense budget.

Bastages!!

Alden68 · #9 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008

oh no, wait....that was the leader of the French Resistence and Deja Vu in a cow costume. Maybe that is where the inspiration came from.