{"id":459,"date":"2008-03-19T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2009-01-14T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:55:13","slug":"the-big-dog-walking-qudripedal-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"The Big Dog Walking Qudripedal Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&apos;t have much time today, but I did want to call your attention               to an item aggregated on Slashdot: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/\">Boston               Dynamics<\/a> &#8220;Big Dog&#8221; robot prototype, developed as a               cargo mule for DARPA. Here&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU\">a               must-see video of Big Dog in action<\/a>, climbing up a wooded hillside,               tramping through snow, and walking on ice. At one point a technician               kicks the device hard on one side, and it recovers its balance beautifully               without falling over, all the while carrying a load that weighs               30% more than itself. It uses a gait that looks more like a show               dog&apos;s than a draft horse&apos;s, and while they do not demonstrate it               in full gallop, they&apos;re clearly trying to teach it to run.<\/p>\n<p>Scary item, considering that this would have been impossible just               a few years ago. I flashed on Cordwainer Smith&apos;s Manshonyoggers               (from the German <i>Menschenjaeger<\/i>, man-hunter) which are human-scale               Berserkers that run around a ruined world and kill any human being               they see. Though hardly stealth creatures now, that&apos;s mostly engine               noise and is a minor engineering problem. It&apos;ll be interesting to               see what we do with them in a few years\u2014or what the Bad Guys               do with them in another fifteen or twenty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&apos;t have much time today, but I did want to call your attention to an item aggregated on Slashdot: The Boston Dynamics &#8220;Big Dog&#8221; robot prototype, developed as a cargo mule for DARPA. Here&apos;s a must-see video of Big Dog in action, climbing up a wooded hillside, tramping through snow, and walking on ice. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}