Having done sufficient experiments in robotics, I know what a feat of achievement it is to build an electro-mechanical device that can navigate terrain like how real animals do. While staying in balance, running, walking, sliding, skiing and other bodily movements sound very trivial to humans and animals (because we can do this very subconsciously without much of an effort), achieving even a simple task like climbing a stair case is an enormous deal as far as robots are concerned. The processing power needed to take into account friction, center of gravity and other properties of the environment around us to successfully navigate a terrain is humongous.

What Boston dynamics has achieved with Big dog (the ugly black thing in the video) is nothing short of incredible. It is an amazing feeling to see achievements like this that I can associate so much with.

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TED Talks is a conference were great minds talk ideas that are worth spreading.

Pasted from TED's About section:

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

Off late, I have been closely following the videos at the TED conference, which by the way are available to download at http://www.ted.com

The videos blow my mind and the existence of a website sharing such wonderful information is an idea worth spreading. Enjoy this brilliant video and visit the website for more.

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I had a high quality image of the same but misplaced it some place. I did rather not lose this one.

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