Boston Dynamics’ Little Dog robot: Just like the Big Dog, except …

Boston Dynamics, the Waltham-based maker of military robots that are incidentally quite entertaining, should really look into monetizing its test videos. Gizmodo posts videos of the Little Dog, the Scrappy-Doo of the headless robotic dog set.

Designed by Katie Byl of Harvard’s Microrobotics (typing that word almost shut my brain down) Lab, which has also developed robotic flies.

Boston Dynamics has the Big Dog and the Precision Urban Hopper in the can, and announced in April it’s developing a humanoid robot. This should be good.

After the jump, watch another video of the Little Dog operate in view of an organic version of a robotic dog made from biological materials, who does not seem happy about the whole situation.

Posted by Brendan Lynch

Tags: Big Dog, Boston Dynamics, Gizmodo, Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory, Katie Byl, Little Dog, Petman, Precision Urban Hopper

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