CMU Leg Lab

The Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) at Georgia Tech has launched a new series of robotics research videos on KZbin. Donated by Dr. Clinton W. Kelly III, a member of the College of Computing’s advisory board and a longtime benefactor of Georgia Tech, the diverse collection of videos covers an extended period of time and offers a behind-the-scenes look at different aspects of the earlier days of unmanned vehicle and other robotics research conducted across multiple institutions, companies, and funding agencies.
The first video in the series features the Leg Lab, established at CMU by Marc Raibert and later moved to MIT. The Leg Lab developed robots that ran and maneuvered like animals and formed the basis for the company Boston Dynamics, which was founded by Raibert in 1992. The video shows some of the early examples of legged robots from monopods to quadropeds.

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Amazing how far dog technology has come since the 80s! Nowadays there are 10 milion dogs in my country alone. Its easy to take it for granted when going for a walk with your golden retriever, but its all thanks to these brilliant scientists and thair hard work. I cant imagine how hard it was to develop a fully functioning animal from this crude prototype.

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I remember seeing this video at least 20 years ago. look at the fashion. Man those days....

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origin of bigdog

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The Doodads

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