BigDog
BigDog is a robot quadruped created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.
BigDog was financed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the hope which it will be able to be used as robot-like mule for transport of the equipment to accompany by the soldiers in a too irregular ground for the vehicles. In the place of the wheels, BigDog uses four legs for the movement, enabling him to be driven on a ground which would have been impracticable with wheels.
BigDog measures 1 m in length, 0,7 m in height, and weighs 75 kilograms. It is currently able to cross a difficult ground to 5,3 km/h, to carry a loading of 54 kg, and to climb slopes of 35°.
BigDog was presented in an episode of Web Junk 20, just like in New Scientist, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and the Wall Street Journal.
Related articles
- Boston Dynamics
- RHex, another robot developed by Boston Dynamics
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