Showing posts with label robotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robotics. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Car or Boat or ATV?


The Aquada from Gibbs Technologies looks fun!  Fast enough to pull a skier...interesting.  Would be fun car to have at a lake house or vacation home.   Or how about there ATV/Jetski combo called appropriately enought the QuadSki (http://www.gibbstech.co.uk/mediacentre/quadski.php).  Great hunting vehicle.  Or maybe try out their camo version as shown above...whole new meaning to getting to the blind :)
What would happen if someone mixed this with the BigDog...the Marines would love it!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

BigDog Robot


If you have not seen the Boston Dynamics BigDog robot, you must go to their website and watch the video. It is uncanny how agile this remote controlled bot really is. The quadruped walks across ice, slips, but catches itself and does not fall! It climbs over rocks, through snow, up hills etc all while carrying 340 pounds of supplies. This amazing 3 foot tall tool is going to dramatically help out our soldiers in places like Afghanistan.
While you are on the site, check out their other machines...one of them climbs walls like a spider!!!
Speaking of things that are Agile, check out the Agilistas group on LinkedIn....some great discussions going on :)