Comments on: From Petman to Dexter, Bipedal Humanoid Robots Come of Age

By: Anybots’ Bipedal and Armed Robots On Hold While Telepresence Launches (video) | Singularity Hub

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:00:11 +0000

[...] small company, but they’ve accomplished some impressive feats. Dexter is on our short list of human-sized robots that can achieve human-like bipedal walking, and was one of our Best Bots of 2009. Monty was no less innovative, with 18 degrees of freedom in [...]

By: New Video Shows Big Dog Robot Really Jogs, and At 5 mph Too! | Singularity Hub

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:19:05 +0000

[...] Besides Big Dog there’s also Little Dog, which can pick its way over scaled terrain, and Petman, which recently broke 7km/h (4.4 mph) – amazing for a bipedal bot. Big Dog is the flagship of [...]

By: Petman Robot Picks Up Speed, Runs Faster than 7 km/h (Video) | Singularity Hub

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:47:04 +0000

[...] walking robots are starting to pick up speed. Boston Dynamics recently released video of their Petman protoype running at 4.4 mph, a little better than the 7 km/h managed by the Toyota robot. This makes Petman [...]

By: Robots para telepresencia « Proyecto A1

Robots para telepresencia « Proyecto A1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:39:39 +0000

[...] robot, el Q4, no es el único de Anybots, que tiene un curioso catálogo, que incluye Dexter, un robot humanoide con dos piernas, que parece muy estable y que estaba en una lista de los robots [...]

By: More Robots – The Big Picture | Walker Engineering

More Robots – The Big Picture | Walker Engineering — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:13:47 +0000

[...] From Petman to Dexter, Bipedal Humanoid Robots Come of Age (singularityhub.com) [...]

By: Hale Scott Holman

Hale Scott Holman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:28:13 +0000

“By your command” baby!

By: Hale Scott Holman

Hale Scott Holman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:28:00 +0000

“By your command” baby!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:37:02 +0000

Yeah, it’s all about the technology of batteries catching up for these things to become untethered. Don’t worry though that is very much on the way.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:37:00 +0000

Yeah, it’s all about the technology of batteries catching up for these things to become untethered. Don’t worry though that is very much on the way.

By: A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009 | Singularity Hub

A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009 | Singularity Hub — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:15:36 +0000

[...] our favorite humanoid demonstration of the year comes from robotic phenom Boston Robotics and its latest robot dubbed Petman. In the video below, watch in awe as the humanoid Petman robot conquers the treadmill in classic [...]

By: Frank Gilroy

Frank Gilroy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:06:02 +0000

The only thing that bothers me about most of these videos is that none of the robots work without the assistance of a tether of some sort, I’m assuming for power at least. I wonder how much power a short walk consumes and how soon they’ll be on batteries.

By: Frank Gilroy

Frank Gilroy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:06:00 +0000

By: Baikal

Baikal — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:46:20 +0000

This is awesome, but the dog robot is still my favourite. I think it will be easier to model a walking human robot than the dog one.

By: Baikal

Baikal — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:46:00 +0000

This is awesome, but the dog robot is still my favourite. I think it will be easier to model a walking human robot than the dog one.

By: Boston Dynamics' Humanoid PETMAN Walks Like a Human, Will Sweat Like a Human

Boston Dynamics' Humanoid PETMAN Walks Like a Human, Will Sweat Like a Human — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:21:04 +0000

[...] PETMAN is being developed for the U.S. Army to test chemical suits in hazardous environments (though at least one blogger wonders if that’s not just a cover story). [...]