Saturday 24 March 2012

Defense Dept: commissions 'Cheetah' robot and Terminator-like droid; hummingbird drone also in works


'A Massachusetts engineering firm known for creating futuristic military robots has received multimillion dollar contracts to develop two more battlefield bots for the Department of Defense.
Boston Dynamics, which in 2008 unveiled a four-legged robot called BigDog, has been tapped by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development arm of the DOD, to create a human-like robot and an agile, robotic Cheetah that developers said will eventually be able to run 70 mph.'

Read more: Defense Dept. Commissions 'Cheetah' Robot and Terminator-like Droid; Hummingbird Drone Also in Works




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