Robots in the field, Part 3

(ME5286 Robotics, University of Minnesota)

Selected videos and web sites that illustrate:

A) The state of the art in commercially available
machines,
B) Robots and autonomous machines of interest,
C) Far-out machines, and
D) Recent thinking on the subject

All web site links have been updated as of Feb. 10, 2017

2017 Max Donath

 Boston Dynamics Robots

See http://www.bostondynamics.com

For video of Boston Dynamics Spot , see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w
For video of Boston Dynamics Atlas , see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkBnFPBV3f0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
For video of Boston Dynamics Cheetah running at 28.3mph, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhAand
and MITs Cheetah at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU
 Google Acquires Boston Dynamics in 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-its-menagerie-of-robots.html

Boston Dynamics employees frustrated with Google plans

for household robot
May 29, 2016
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-google-and-boston-dynamics-are-parting-ways-2016-5

SpotMini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

Marc Raibert describing the latest at Boston Dynamics

(Jan. 31, 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5qpXO3isM