"ROBOTICS: RoboDogs to Assist Military by Carrying Packs"

Dogs may be man's best friend, but Big Dogs aims to one-up the slobbering canines with by packing over 300 pound payloads with no barking! Look for the military to adopt these Star Wars vintage robots over the next five years. R.C.J.


Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are even more important to legged robots, which must constantly be tracking the orientation of their body, especially on rough terrain. Boston Dynamics (Waltham, Mass.) for instance, specializes in building biologically inspired robots based on algorithms that mimic real animals.
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