At the link from
Regneration this came up:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/drummkThe military’s taken plenty of big steps towards fortifying battlefields with robot armies. Now, they’re taking a giant leap.
One that’s twenty-four feet high, to be specific. That’s the elevation achieved by the tiny, jumping Sand Flea robot, which will for the first time be battle-tested in Afghanistan this coming winter.
Created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Boston Dynamics — the latter being the same renowned robotics shop that brought us AlphaDog and PETMAN — the Sand Flea was initially commissioned by Darpa, the Pentagon’s cutting-edge research arm, in 2009.
RAW: Robot can hop over HIGH fencesand I followed it here:
BigDog EvolutionAlphaDog ProtoDARPA is one of the govts best bangs for the buck. Of course those crafty
military persons insert competition and freedom of action and $$ pay off to
the winner. Very capitalistic some of these military guys.