Ford Motor Co. started using Sentinel, a dog-like robot, a year ago at a factory in Spain and has seen costs plummet.

The company has now unveiled a larger robot that can handle even larger loads described as the "Big Dog on Steroids" and called the Alpha Dog. The robot can carry up to four hundred pounds of gear ...

When Boston Dynamics engineers kick a robot, you feel like they’re kicking man’s best friend. It’s all in the name of technology. But their new creation Spot moves so much like a dog that ...

Engineers will hand over the Big Dog to a group of Marines this November to test at Fort Devens, Mass., to see how well Marines can operate the robot and test how it operates under simulated ...

You see, it was March 2008 when I first posted the now-famous video of Boston Dynamics’ “Big Dog Robot,” a giant, buzzing, two-headed fly with fast-pumping, Roger Craig-esque robot dog legs ...

All armies need supplies. Will U.S. Special Forces of the future use "Big Dog" to carry theirs?The creation of robotics pioneer Marc Raibert skirts obstacles it "sees," climbs rock-strewn slopes and ...

LS3—the son of the scary quadruped robot also known as Big Dog—has been deployed for the first time during the RIMPAC 2014, the multinational maritime war. Skip to content Gizmodo.

Chances are you’re familiar with Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog or its larger cousin Alpha Dog. Now, the roboticists at BD have constructed PETMAN, a six-foot-tall, 180-pound, headless humanoid ...

This autumn, after years of dropping view-amassing videos of Spot the robot dog fending off stick-wielding humans and opening doors for its pals, Boston Dynamics finally announced that the machine ...

Boston Dynamics is among the highest-profile robot companies out there. It made a bang with its gas-powered Big Dog quadruped, which could navigate challenging terrain while keeping its balance.

While I'm sure there's some scientific reason for demonstrating how the quadrupedal Big Dog can pick up and throw cinder blocks across a workshop ("Ahem, urm, we're showing how the mass of the ...