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Boston Dynamics announces new WildCat quadruped robot | Automaton


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07 October 2013



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Boston Dynamics has just updated its YouTube channel with some new videos. One of them is an update on Atlas. Another is an update on LS3. And the third is this: WildCat, a totally new quadruped robot based on Cheetah, and out of nowhere, there’s this video of it bounding and galloping around outdoors, untethered, at up to 25 km/h (16 mph). Whoa.

 

Read more by Evan Ackerman on Automaton.

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