New video of "BigDog Quadruped" AT-AT project.

Freefaller said:
Indeed. How it intelligently finds it's balance is the thing that "gets" me the most.
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AFAIR, a highspeed reactive ZMP controller. It probably also has kind of vertical behavior decomposition to allow high-level predictive and planned response to better cope with the rough terrain and slope angle.
 
Code: 
if not exist floor goto panic

:panic
move legs fast as #### until floor exists

:end

that's the only programming that went into that thing
 
badbob said:
Why should it be faked? US personal do need to carry lots of equipment, I guess this is just a replacement for a pony.
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Typical American Gov't, they spent £1000's developing a pen to work in zero mavity for the Apollo missions - the Russians used a pencil!

Yanks not got Mules & Donkeys (apart from those in the White House) then? :p
 
Been following this for a while now, still not reduced the noise on it :/ & I think it should leave the climbing to humans, quite impressive to see it jump though
 
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R124/LA420 said:
Typical American Gov't, they spent £1000's developing a pen to work in zero mavity for the Apollo missions - the Russians used a pencil!
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i've read that's untrue, and that a normal pens works just fine, and a pencil would be dangerous as you'd have tiny bits of lead floating around, which could short out electronics!

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^ No wonder Russian Technology goes wrong; maybe someone should point that out to them :D
 
hmm 350lbs of C4 ... now the US has their own suicide bomber quadraped! (pop!)

350lbs is 158kg.. So that could be a light ordnance platform such as a light weapons system, radar or actually carry injured troops as it stands now. Needs to be more agile though for speed.
 
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Its reaction when walking on the ice was just .... mindboggling. :eek::eek::eek:

I can't even begin to fathom the level of research, programming and engineering expertise required to pull off something like that.
 
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