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Robotics: War Dog on The Loose

2009-10-12T20:36:33.342Z

The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are articulated like an animal's, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.

BigDog has an on-board computer that controls locomotion, servos the legs and handles a wide variety of sensors. BigDog's control system manages the dynamics of its behavior to keep it balanced, steer, navigate, and regulate energetics as conditions vary. Sensors for locomotion include joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a laser gyroscope, and a stereo vision system. Other sensors focus on the internal state of BigDog, monitoring the hydraulic pressure, oil temperature, engine temperature, rpm, battery charge and others.

In separate trials, BigDog runs at 4 mph, climbs slopes up to 35 degrees, walks across rubble, and carries a 340 lb load.

BigDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics with the goal of creating robots that have rough-terrain mobility that can take them anywhere on Earth that people and animals can go. The program is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).

Military Medicine:New Mini-Ventilator

2008-12-09T04:49:56.658Z

New U.S. military mini-ventilator, partially developed by DARPA, weighs only 6 pounds and was fielded by the Rapid Equipping Force in summer 2007.

Rehabilitation: Next Generation DARPA Prosthetic Arm

2008-10-14T01:10:12.060Z

DARPA is putting new limbs in reach of wounded warriors. Artificial arms and hands that promise giant leaps in limb replacement are being developed by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory.

Patient Safety: DARPA Integrated LSTAT Robot Diagnostic Platform

2008-09-14T19:43:30.419Z

The Integrated LSTAT (Life Support Trauma And Transport) Robot Diagnostic System is being developed by the Bio Robotics Lab at the Carnegie Mellon University. The LSTAT system incorporates many of the functions of an ICU, but is contained entirely within a stretcher. It houses a defibrillator, an oxygen supply, a ventilator, and various forms of physiological monitoring. It was built and developed by Integrated Medical Systems, Inc., and is currently in operational use in military support in the U.S. and Overseas. The completed system will provide a key component to the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Trauma POD & Mobile Operating Room of the Future Program.
Carnegie Mellon BioRobotics Lab,

Rehabilitation: Deka develops the "Luke" Robotic Arm

2008-09-08T19:46:33.051Z

In this IEEE online production, Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway mobility device, develops a robotic arm for upper body amputees.
IEEE Online, http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/