Don't Mess With "Big Dog"

This is quite simply the most astonishing robot I have ever seen.

Watch it climb over jumbled concrete blocks, walk uphill and downhill through snow, amazingly regain its footing after slipping on ice, and even gallop and leap.

When you see the way it stays on its feet after a researcher tries to kick it over, does it make you wonder how a future version of this robot might respond to such an attack?

Big Dog makes Asimo look like a toy.

(H/T to Nanodot.)

Mike Treder

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