07.10 Four-legged US Robot Taken for Test-Gallop
WASHINGTON, October 7 (RIA Novosti) It sounds like a motor scooter, looks like a metallic wasp that stands on large matchstick legs, and puffs out blue smoke when it gets going: its the WildCat, the latest robot developed for the military by US company Boston Dynamics, and if it doesnt scare the heeby-geebies out of you, it will probably amaze you as it outruns and outmaneuvers you on rough terrain.
In a test run, WildCat clocked about 16 miles per hour (26 kilometers per hour) on flat terrain using bounding and galloping gaits. The robot is so new that Boston Dynamics has not yet added information about it to the companys website, but this video clip, showing the new
