[LINK] DARPA's BigDog

[Rick Welykochy]

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> BigDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics with the goal of creating 
> robots that have rough-terrain mobility that can take them anywhere on 
> Earth that people and animals can go.  The program is funded by the 
> Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).

"Defense", heh? So will this be a dog of war one day?

Once NASA get their hands on BigDog perhaps they will send him
anywhere in the solar system. Very useful on the moon or Mars,
for example.


cheers
rickw



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