BigDog Overview (Updated March 2010)

Boston Dynamics · 9.1M views · 2010-04-22 · 3:26

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Overview

Boston Dynamics' 2010 demo of BigDog, a quadruped robot that climbs through woods, recovers from kicks, slips on ice and jogs at 5 mph. It was an early showcase of dynamic legged locomotion.

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Used as the go-to demo of robot resilience when Boston Dynamics comes up.

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sjtrny · 2015-02 · Recommendation
> Can it get up if knocked over? Yes [LINK] . > Just how resilient is it? Watch it on ice [VIDEO] I assumed the HN crowd had already seen all these videos.
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EvanAnderson · 2020-12 · Joke / meme
I can't be the only person who really wanted a human to enter the frame and menace the robots with a hockey stick[1] or kick one of them[2]. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]
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blacksmith_tb · 2018-05 · Reference
The Big Dog has an internal combustion engine (what I take to be an electrical generator) that is about as loud as a chainsaw[1]. SpotMini makes servo noises, but it's all-electric, and quite a bit less noisy. 1: [VIDEO]
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