Internet Oddities and Eccentricity at Bunch of Nerds » Petman http://bunchofnerds.com A blog for nerds from nerds Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:41:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Army Robot Simulates Human Walking & Physiology http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/10/robotics/army-robot-simulates-human-walking-physiology/ http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/10/robotics/army-robot-simulates-human-walking-physiology/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:26:36 +0000 seth http://bunchofnerds.com/?p=1676 Remember Big Dog? Well now its developers are introducing a quieter, bipedal version they’re calling Petman. Boston Dynamics says Petman will be used to test military clothing while “walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing calisthenics during exposure to chemical warfare agents.” Petman can also mimic human physiology by sweating inside the clothing if the test were to call for it. And remember how Big Dog couldn’t be pushed over? Well, neither can this two legged version. Only a year and a half between the two prototype releases…wow…quite remarkable. What are we gonna see by spring 2011?

Via Wired

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