Video: Darpa’s Robotic Dog Wanders The Wilderness -- The Danger Room
The last time we saw AlphaDog, Darpa’s quadrupedic, autonomous robo-beast designed to haul military gear, the big lug was scampering around in the lab. Now, however, AlphaDog’s been let off his leash.
In the video above, released this week by Darpa and Boston Dynamics, the company behind the ‘bot, AlphaDog can be seen undergoing its first-ever outdoor assessment.
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