Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN returns to it as the classic jaw-dropping demo of legged robots handling rough terrain, and as a historical marker for how long such robots have existed.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

olinerd

Topic

legged robots

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2008–2019

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I thought Toyota was pretty good until I followed the link in the article to Big Dog. [VIDEO] Big Dog is truly awesome. It runs, jumps, recovers from slips, climbs over rubble, ...

• Here's some specific suggestions. I was most recently fascinated by this video on head tracking "virtual reality". [LINK] Another cool thing if you're into DIY robots (not really educational, but I found it inspiring) is the Yellow Drum Machine. [LINK] Not sure why I got …

• I find amazing how difficult it is to successfully perform apparently trivial tasks such as walking. There's more information about the 'LittleDog' on the Boston Dynamics website: [LINK] I was really impressed 2 years ago by their video of the 'BigDog': [VIDEO] (check out t=40s)