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Is this where Boston Robotics comes in?

For heavy load, they have wild cat[wildcat] and for lighter loads, they have spot [spot]. For Ussain Bolt, there is the cheetah [cheetah] that can keep up with the pace peaking at over 29 miles per hour. All these are at various stages in development and as far as I understand not ready for production.

spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g

wildcat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g

cheetah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhA

⬐ Dylan16807

If you're hiking, maybe. If you're doing almost anything else a platform with wheels should suffice at a tiny fraction of the cost.

I noticed the opposite in this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g

Which is to say, it looks more natural and more balanced with the legs out of sync.

The bounding part is very cool (I caught myself leaning forward in surprise [and mild horror?] as the machine jumped over the box instead of maneuvering around it). Besides not requiring fuel, does anyone know how this is different/better/unique than Google/BostonDynamic's WildCage? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g) I certainly agree that more people working on this is a good thing, but I'd like to understand the progress being made.

This is the link to Wildcat video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g#t=69 , one of the product of Boston dynamics.

If I plug in a YouTube link will it also tally all of the YouTube link variations for that video? For example, if I put in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g, will it also include the shortened http://youtu.be/wE3fmFTtP9g in the tally?

⬐ XaspR8d

Makes me think how adding link shorteners really compounds the problem. Do these services check if there is a bit.ly version of the URL on all of the social sites? What about multiply-shortened URLs? (presumably that would be a waste, but in the "ideal" solution we could somehow find them all...)

I submitted this after seeing a video of their WildCat robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g

⬐ DavidJohnson

Dear Boston Dynamics,

This is getting creepier and creepier.

Sincerely, Humanity