Actually all of Boston Dynamics robots are extremely cool... Check out some of their other projects, such as<div>BigDog (shown in video linked earlier) <a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html">http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html"></a>LS3: The final production model of BigDog (BigDog being the prototype) designed for military applications: <a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_ls3.html">http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_ls3.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_ls3.html"></a>PetMan (working on a prototype for humanoid bipedal locomotion) <a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_petman.html">http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_petman.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_petman.html"></a>RHex (a hexapod crawler/swimmer that can traverse almost any terrain) <a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_rhex.html">http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_rhex.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_rhex.html"></a>Rise: A vertical climber <a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_rise.html">http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_rise.html</a></div><div><a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_rise.html"></a>SquishBot: A prototype for an advanced soft tissue robot able to change it's shape. <a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_squishbot.html">http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_squishbot.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_squishbot.html"></a>Also they model their control systems by behavioral analysis of nature... They analyze the motion of living quadrupeds for their bigdog robot for example, and analysed human motion for the biped... </div>
<div>The video you linked for bigdog is neat, but I find this one to be by-far the most impressive... Showing how naturally it's onboard control systems can adapt and work to keep itself balanced in extreme conditions:<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww</a></div><div><br></div><div>Although I do like the kicking scene in the video you linked, also shows it's dynamic recovery.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
LOL that is so cool<br>
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Darcy Whyte <<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com">darcy@siteware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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