{"id":2018,"date":"2008-08-01T18:54:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2008-08-01T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T16:54:39","slug":"the-most-agile-robot-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/01\/the-most-agile-robot-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The most agile robot on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/atat_robot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/atat_robot.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars AT-AT robot\" title=\"AT-AT robot\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-small wp-image-2255\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Usually, robots you see in real life are hardly able to move around or to behave&#8230; like a robot. This one is all the more impressive. It moves, it walks, it runs on four legs adapting itself to nearly any kind of rough terrain as well as a mule, a dog, or a man (on all fours, I told you!).<\/p>\n<p>BigDog from Boston Dynamics is all that, it has been paid by the US Army Pentagon (through DARPA) and despite its name (<em>Big Dog<\/em>) it makes me irresistibly think about a big fly (nice buzzing quadruped) or an AT-AT robot out of the Star Wars movies.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/content\/sec.php?section=BigDog\">The BigDog <strong>video<\/strong><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Roland for showing me this weird electronic animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, robots you see in real life are hardly able to move around or to behave&#8230; like a robot. This one is all the more impressive. It moves, it walks, it runs on four legs adapting itself to nearly any kind of rough terrain as well as a mule, a dog, or a man (on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-film","category-sciences","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}