Bigdog robot’s new arm

Bigdog robot’s new arm

The new arm attached to Boston Dynamic’s famous Bigdog robot seems to be doing a good job. The blocks weigh more than 35 pounds (16 kg) and the robot can throw them to a distance of 17 feet (5m). The first version of Big dog robot had appeared few years ago, and throughout its advancing […]

LS3 robot carrying load for soldiers

LS3 robot carrying load for soldiers

The 4 legged LS3 robot, which is an upgraded version of big dog robot produced by Boston Dynamics for DARPA, has gotten more abilities like following people on command and it is much less noisy too, in comparison to the previous big dog model which sounded like a lawn mower in full speed. The robot, […]

Big Dog Robot

This video shows fun moments from the famous Big Dog robot testing. Boston Dynamics, maker of Big Dog says that the first prototype is coming out of the lab around summer of 2012.

Robot walking like human

Robot walking like human

After the Big Dog robot, a four legged technology marvel which mimicked the natural walking mechanism of a four legged animal, the US based robotics company called Boston Dynamics has now developed a two legged version of the robot, and this one seems to imitate walking of a human. The bipedal robot called Petman, has […]

Robot that can jump over high obstacles

Robot that can jump over high obstacles

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia National Laboratories to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat. When fully operational, the four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate autonomously by wheel and […]

New Robots show off at ICRA 2009

In the latest ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation) event, which took place in Kobe-Japan, many new robots were shown, which had exciting new features. One which can climb to any pole or walk on a surface called Rise V3 was made by Boston Dynamics, which is also the maker of the recent internet […]

Robot that jumps 25 feet in development

Boston Dynamics, a US based company, which is also the developer of the Big Dog robot that became very popular on youtube recently, is currently developing a four wheeled robot. The new robot which is designed to aid ground troops in combat will have four wheels and one strong leg, which will enable it to […]