Boston Dynamics AlphaDog
Meet the new dog, bigger and badder than the old (big) dog:
Video via Spectrum IEEE, which tells us more:
…those weights that AlphaDog is carrying in a few of the clips weigh a total of 400 pounds (180 kilograms), and the robot will be able to carry that load up to 20 miles (30 kilometers) over the course of 24 hours without having to refuel. At the end of the running demo (just after the 45 second mark), the robot collapses into the safety frame like that simply because it ran out of room, not because of any kind of mechanical problem. And notice how two people pushing as hard as they can don’t phase AlphaDog in the least, and in the event that it does tip over for some reason, it has no trouble self-righting, which is a useful new feature.
First robot-horse of the Apocalypse, or future coolest pizza delivery service ever?
[...] Will End Us AllBy Christopher Pye on September 30, 2011 Just saw this over at Grinding.be. Quite the impressive mechanical [...]
Next step, add on 200 lbs of armor, 75 lbs of telemetry-controlled weapon, 120 lbs of ammunition…and 5 lbs of pizza. Sweet. Now we can safely deliver pies in Islamabad. They better work on the speed though, unless we're unilaterally pulling out of the "30 minutes or less" convention.