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Robotic Pack Mule is More Pantomime Horse than BigDog

By Seamus Byrne on July 18, 2007 at 10:47 PM

ass-vacation.jpgThe BigDog, from Boston Dynamics, a company specialising in human simulation is just weird. A robotic pack mule that runs on petrol, travels at up to 3.3 mph over all sorts of terrain, and can carry up to 120 lb, BigDog has received $10 million of funding from the Pentagon. Check how it moves in a 2006 video after the jump.

[YouTube via UberGizmo]

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