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PETMAN Robot: Nearly Ready to Go Looking for Sarah Connor

By Roy Wood November 2, 2011 | 8:00 am

A few years back, Boston Dynamics impressed us with their quadruped robot, Big Dog [ http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/03/this-big-dog-go/ ]. Well, believe it or not, they’ve managed to top that with their latest bipedal robot, PETMAN [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mclbVTIYG8E ]:

The Boston Dynamics guys had this to say about PETMAN:

PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by the US Army. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does simple calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest, Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. The work is being done for the US Army PD-CCAT-TI. For more information about PETMAN visit us at www.BostonDynamics.com [ http://www.BostonDynamics.com ].

It seems apropos to note that, according to Sarah Connor, Skynet went live on April 19, 2011 [ http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/2011/04/19 ].

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