Boston Dynamics is experiencing LS3

The world-famous manufacturer Boston Dynamics gained fame thanks to the creation of walking robots. The Pentagon's Advanced Research Programs Office (DARPA) approached the company with a business proposal to build a larger model of the BigDog robot, which moves on four limbs.

Order value was 32 million dollars. After the end of the next IEEE 2011 International Conference of the Year, which is dedicated to the problems of robotics and intelligent systems (2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), some subtleties of the project were revealed, which were described by Marc Raibert, the founder and head of Boston Dynamics.

The purpose of the LS3 robot (Legged Squad Support System) is the same as that of the BigDog robot. It will be used in the direction of movement of goods over rough terrain. But if the BigDog robot could lift cargo weighing about 150 a kilogram and the power reserve was 20 kilometers, then the new development in the form of an LS3 robot could be loaded with a load of 180 kilograms and moving 30 kilometers. In the new design of the LS3 robot, it is also called BullDog and AlphaDog, some points have been modified by the engineers of Boston Dynamics and now it moves more quietly than BigDog does. In addition to its characteristics added such moments as the ability to overcome obstacles and self-lift as a result of the fall.

During the conference, Mark Raybert was shown a video, the main character of which was the robot LS3. There were moments when he walked and ran across rough terrain, and as if two people tried to drop him, he remained unmoved.

Another project of the company Boston Dynamics attracted the attention of a wide range of people. This is the robot Petman, moving on two legs. The demonstration by Mark Raibert literally shocked the participants of the conference with his participation. It shows how Petman is kneeling, can squat, and wring out from the floor. So far, company manager Mark Rabert does not give permission for the display of this video for a wider range of readers. But soon, everyone will have access to it.

Comments

[Hannibal]

Cool thing

[Helmut]

Why in Russia there are no developments in army android technology? None at all! Maybe I'm wrong? Ultimately, this is the future.

[Nova]

Suppose we are developing a domestic exoskeleton, and to work in a small detachment of the same, and with the support of special vehicles. Assume not to no avail. And let's say that, as always, the generals will decide whether he will join the army or not.

[Helmut]

This is a joke? Or are you serious? Where does infa come from?

[Nova]

In a personal unsubscribe

[viktor_ui]

Helmut - in the late 80s and early 90s, similar our research institutes and technical laboratories were closed in batches and poured into sedimentation tanks ..., and those who worked in them drank themselves to death or piled over the hill (they did it right). Such a shitty attitude lasted for about 20 years ... from here we, as usual, "in the ass" have technical progress in a number of key areas. In the early 80s, we already had laboratory prototypes of walking multi-legged autonomous cybers with their own system for scanning the surrounding area and their own algorithms (software). They were imprisoned for the Mars program ... but the essence of using such systems does not change from this. Amer fellows and good luck to them in this extremely interesting field, but Muscovy, as usual, will now buy it for the taxpayers' money.

[Mahamont]

The generals looked at the BMPT, their brains creaked, and then a whole robot. The military with large epaulets are mostly conservative people.

[Nova]

Alas, indeed.

[petor41]

There is also a video on the net where this dog is tested in winter, he went on the ice, slipped to her and God, as if alive, on his elbows, on his knees, he got up and went on !!

[Mahamont]

A good companion for a fighter, who will carry ammunition and provisions. One can imagine - the company is going on the offensive in exoskeletons, and after them a flock of such robotic dogs)) and it will pull the wounded man out of the battlefield and find a mine.

[montemor]

everything goes to that

[Tyumen]

Is there a detachment of operators behind a flock of robots?

[Mahamont]

It comes to the point that it will become a self-sufficient being.

[PSih2097]

And what's wrong?

or such?

[rumpeljschtizhen]

..as live cattle ..... :-)))))))))))

[does it]

wait and see, live, find out.

[Honory]

Just great. A simple soldier will appreciate such a dog on the battlefield. I am sure that the Japanese will break behind them. and there the Germans and all sorts of other bourgeois.