BigDog: Quadruped Robot "Mule" Can Carry Heavy Loads.

Alex





The video clip's caption:

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are articulated like an animal's, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.

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"One day the robots are going to take over the world and kick the *** of that guy who keeps kicking the poor robot."

HAHAHAHAHA.

It's a pretty cool machine, but it's so damn loud.
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One day the robots are going to take over the world and kick the ass of that guy who keeps kicking the poor robot.

The robot has good balance... no need to be violent with it just to prove that point. Send him down a ravine or something to see how he can fall back on his feets.
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ok, those legs are creeping me out. i keep expecting humans to pull their heads and torsos out of the middle bit and say "surprise!!"

in other news, i wonder if any double leg amputees (humans!) would ever be interested in this kind of robot legs. they seem a little too wild and perky to wanna perch myself on (and may require the use of a helmet and wrist/elbow guards, a la rollerblading), but that's just me. a wheelchair is much more predictable and manageable, i'd think.
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Great stuff - but I was expecting a stage-separation!

Loved the parachutes - they were just the colour I remember from all those years ago. Except I must have seen it in black and white. Odd how the memory plays tricks.
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Model rocket?!? That's a land to air missile!! Pretty impressive. I'm just looking at the cars in the background, wondering how many of them almost swerved off the road when the rocket took off. Not something you see everyday!
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I know right? At what point do you take the word 'model' off the front of 'rocket'? I wonder if he had to get any sort of clearance or notify anyone to launch something that big.
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@Dalucero - At the point that you can call it a complete replica. A model has less copied details than the original. If I saw correctly, this model ony fired its 1st stage? And it has a standard model-grade solid fuel engine?

I know that where I live, you need permission for even far smaller rockets. This mastodont would never get permission to even be built up, let alone that it also would be launched...
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If it were dick thing, DaveL, it would have been kind of embarrassing. He only got about halfway, then stopped.

Cool that it landed upright like that. Must have had a really heavy bottom.

That's some expensive hobby, I bet.
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Very impressive, but with 8 N engines and a central P engine and the thing only got to 4000'? That thing is far, far more powerful than many of the early sounding rockets which got to 40 miles altitude.

I guess they were going for aethetics, not pure performance.
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