AlphaDog Proto

The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System, a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. When fully developed the system will carry 400 lbs of payload on 20-mile missions in rough terrain. The first version of the complete robot will be ready in 2012. This video shows early results from the lab where we are developing the control systems and locomotion platform. This lab prototype is powered remotely. AlphaDog will draw power from an internal combustion engine, which we designed to be 10x quieter than BigDog. The field version of AlphaDog will have a sensor head packed with terrain sensors. Boston Dynamics leads a development team that includes AAI Corp, Bell Helicopter, CMU/NREC, FEV, JPL and Woodward HRT. For more information visit us at www.BostonDynamics.com.

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[antiigravity]

YEAH, and imagine $20 RPG rounds calmly disintegrating this $1,000,000 machine...

[antiigravity]

RPGs are disabling most modern tanks with multilevel kevlar-ceramic-steel armor that reaches 2 feet thick, and weighs up to 60 tons... Let alone next gen RPGs designed for modern warfare.

[l00kint0myeyes]

Freaky

[Motolovi]

why imagining such a beauty for war ? why not exploring another worlds ? why not helping people ? many uses for that machine that arent just war.

[ClarenceBeeks1]

There was a report that a Challenger tank was hit with about 15 RPG rounds and an anti-tank missile. The crew were a little shaken and the tank, well that was repaired and back in the field the same day.

[KnightOnlineAshet]

Looks really snare proof! Not.

[JacknoobX]

I misread this as alpha dog potato.

[Matalgiraffe]

Are you kidding me? You'd be lucky to take down a Abrams, which isn't even too modern (3rd generation), with a RPG, a hit does disorientate the tank crew but hardly enough to destroy one permanently. Maybe a lucky hit or if the RPG warhead had say, thermobaric properties, but even still.

[Christian Sigmon]

Meh, RPGs are more dangerous due to shrapnel. If they made the armor thicker, it could survive.

[00Andreas00]

i've had recurring nightmares about this thing