Extreme tech robot legs dog new technology 2011.
The robot legs dog is being created by the clever people over at Darpa. It is designed to carry equipment into battle over rough terrain where vehicles can't get.
What’s so difficult about creating autonomous legged robots? In short, “everything,” says Tom Wagner, program manager in DARPA’s IPTO. Robots such as 4.9-pound (2.2-kilogram) LittleDog are designed to sense the world around them, make decisions based on the information they gather, and then attempt to take some action based on this information. “There are fundamental research challenges that lie in all of these areas, [such as] whether the system can differentiate tall grass from a barbed wire fence, plan its path accordingly, and then follow along that planned path even when the terrain is uneven and difficult,” he adds. For an autonomous system like LittleDog, all of the difficulties with perception, cognition and action are combined with the engineering challenges posed by the mechanical system.
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