Posts Tagged ‘Precision Urban Hopper’

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…)

Boston Dynamics’ Precision Urban Hopper robot hops precisely

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Boston Dynamics, maker of the creepy-yet-mesmerizing YouTube sensation, the Big Dog robot, is developing the next version of a shoebox-sized jumping robot for the military — the Precision Urban Hopper.

Precision Urban HopperThe Waltham-based company is working under a DARPA-funded grant from the Sandia National Laboratories., which developed the robot. The Hopper platform is designed to navigate autonomously  on its four wheels and use its one leg to jump up to 25 feet in the air, according to Sandia.

As flying robots start to pop up with increasing frequency, Sandia says hopping is a more fuel-efficient means of getting over obstacles up to about 33 feet high.

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