Tag: BOSTON DYNAMICS

Given the unabashed awesomeness of robots, criticizing any type of bot elicits deprecatory feelings of shame. The prodigious robot specialists from DARPA and Boston Dynamics (BD) produce such astounding and extraordinary mechanical creations, though, that otherwise impressive feats of engineering sometimes seem pedestrian and outmoded. Such is the lamentable fate of one sad robot from Japan's ...

Boston Dynamics -- makers of the weirdly awesome Big Dog robot -- has designed a fast, new robot that can climb a variety of surfaces with ease. The bot, whose six limbs are equipped with powerful claws, will inevitably strike fear into the hearts of lumberjacks and phone company employees everywhere. The 28-inch RiSE V3, developed in conjunction with researchers at multiple universities, is ...