A recent video by Boston Dynamics, uploaded to YouTube, showcases the Sand Flea, a robotic RC car that has a special talent. When it has to, the 11-pound (5-kilogram) vehicle can jump as high as 30 feet (9.1 meters) into the air.
This enables it to clear very high obstacles, given the robot's own size. It repre... |
30 March 2012
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Waltham, Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics recently showcased a robot that is capable of running very fast on four legs. Called the Cheetah, the machine broke a record set in 1989, and is now the fastest-running robot of its class in the world.
During a recent series of experiments, scientists managed to make the... |
6 March 2012
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It looks like a dog, walks like a dog... must be a robot! BigDog is a quadrupled robot created by Boston Dynamics, powered by a hydraulic system, run by a gasoline engine and controlled by a computer which monitors its every move in relation to the environment, through movement sensors. It weighs 74 kilograms, has al... |
27 March 2008
12:26 GMT |
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