The military's creepily life-like robotic pack mule can now trot along at five miles per hour – and trudge through mud as it goes uphill.
Earlier footage of BigDog, the mechanical quadruped built by Boston Dynamics and funded by Darpa, showed the mecha-creature climbing over hills, stomping through snow, surviving swift kicks to the chops, and hiking alongside troops at Ft. Benning. Boston Dynamics' latest BigDog video is mostly a compilation of those earlier accomplishments, plus some new footage from a quick run and from a muddy march at Quantico.
Boston Dynamics also showed off its headless biped, Petman, jogging at a 4.4 mile-per-hour clip. And if you find the idea of a robotic pack mule unnerving, for God's sake, don't check out the Petman video, after the jump.
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