Posts Tagged ‘Petman’

Boston Dynamics’ Petman robot mimics human walking, wears sneakers

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Boston Dynamics, the Waltham-based maker of funny Internet videos starring robots the company incidentally develops, has released footage of its Petman robot. If you, like me, think it’s weird that the robot is wearing sneakers, it’s not. The robot is designed to test chemical protection uniforms for soldiers, so presumably the finished robot will be wearing a full uniform.

And this being a Boston Dynamics video, obviously the robot gets shoved, to little effect.

After the jump, watch the Big Dog take a romantic stroll on a beach in Thailand. Seriously. (more…)

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

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

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. (more…)

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