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Autonomous Robots

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The thing that all these robots have in common is that they have a certain amount of autonomy— they are given goals and strategies for achieving those goals, but the particular movements they will make at a given time are not known in advance.
Dexter, from Anybots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXwpIQMUikU

BigDog, from Boston Dynamics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU

Asimo from Honda, programmed at Carnegie Mellon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dv0wJDwtuw

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