Looks like Terminator type technology is coming along just fine.
Amazing !

Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008) (3 min 29 sec)

BigDog Quadraped Robot (3 min 2 sec)

Government spending at work. How long before Judgement Day?

Wow !! This is BIG ! The reaction time to external force (the kicks) is off the charts ! This thing has surpassed my hopes for robotics in my life time. I have been a life long fan of Isaac Asimov and now that the "body" seems capable enough maybe next the "mind" ! Thanks for posting this as some how I missed it.

Very cool, I wonder what the practical applications for it will be.

Great - Terminator is alive...lovely.... lol

Originally Posted by zoomer260

Wow !! This is BIG ! The reaction time to external force (the kicks) is off the charts ! This thing has surpassed my hopes for robotics in my life time. I have been a life long fan of Isaac Asimov and now that the "body" seems capable enough maybe next the "mind" ! Thanks for posting this as some how I missed it.

Wow(again) your perception is so right!
Preserve the mind as the body will soon be replaceable!
I Will Fear No Evil (back in the early 70's) was such a great and controversial read!!

.. what's the practical applications for it?

Toss the wheelchair before long and go skiing!???

That's going to give me nightmares.

I wonder what kind of servos they use

Originally Posted by JimC-MD

I wonder what kind of servos they use

How do you spell custom-spensive?
Sure sounds like an un-muffler-ed RC engine possibly turning an elec. generator you think? Batteries too heavy possibly- preserving the pay load capacity of 350#'s. Now that would haul most FA - rich SB Americans around.

Originally Posted by jaguar bone

How do you spell custom-spensive?
Sure sounds like an un-muffler-ed RC engine possibly turning an elec. generator you think? Batteries too heavy possibly- preserving the pay load capacity of 350#'s. Now that would haul most FA - rich SB Americans around.

Awe come on !! My wife just told me yesterday that I'm gettin' skinny !! SHE on the other hand....

Oh, no! How will the human race compete with noisy, slow, unarmed robots?! Worse yet, they can't be kicked over AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Perhaps the governator of California can save us by saying there 'bots pollute too much.

Just kidding, though designing a robot that can balance and react to its enviornment that quickly (on legs) takes some serious thinkin'.

Lets see - I'm ready to see them give it the lawnmower attachment modification - right now!
I predict we just got a means inwhich to stay in the ole Lazyboy a leeetle longer!

I don't think it's controlled (leg movement) by servos. I would think that the 2-stroke engine drives a pump and everything is controlled by hydraulics. Whether it's slow or fast, I'm dang impressed. It may not be fast traversing a hill, but neither is a human with a payload, and the robot can't be killed.

do we see starwars AT-AT in the near futrue hahah
mike

That is cool. It kinda freaked me out on the ice for some reason. Looked alot like an animal trying to get up.