Boston Dynamics Big Dog…

You just have to wonder that with today’s technology and vast knowledge that we’d have robots in place everywhere, exactly as we were promised 30 years ago. Most attempts at designing and developing robots that emulate human or animal like movements have been, well, let’s say, not so human or animal like…

Until I saw Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog: incredibly beautiful and creepy at the same time. The project is funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), you know the same folks that brought you the Internet…

Make sure to check out 0:37…the immediate response is simply incredible and behaves so realistically that I think I even felt a bit sorry for the steel beast.

Their website is not much to look at and painfully slow, but check out their other robots…