322. Video of the day: “Boston Dynamics”
Uncategorized — By Dmitry Podolsky on March 26, 2009 at 4:05 pm
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Dmitry Podolsky has got his PhD from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He currently works as postdoc at Case Western Reserve University. He is also one of the editors of NEQNET.
I think it is worth posting about… I’ve noticed the BigDog project (by Boston Dynamics) about a year ago. It seems that their robot is now good enough for U.S. military to use it in Afghanistan.
The first video in the playlist is BigDog’ test in March 2008 (very impressive), the second shows that sometimes the robot does not behave very well though 
Finally, after watching the third video I will understand how hard it is to write a good physics engine for a computer game
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I’ve known #1 but #2 is an excellent parody.
#3 is OK but did you recently play some state-of-the-art 3D PC games? It’s sometimes amazing.
No, unfortunately I don’t really have time for that… Although I used to be quite a gamer long time ago, still have cravings sometimes
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