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U.S. military requests larger than a dog, big dog 32 million dollars!

Being developed by Boston Dynamics for the U.S. military and, more recently, after years and years of development, the company received a request to $ 32 million from DARPA DARPA (Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research) of the U.S. Department of Defense, for the manufacture of a robot is larger than the robot the former can carry more weight and walk for longer distances .
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The Big Dog Big Dog robot is walking on four feet, and is intended to replace animals that the U.S. military for use in rugged areas such as Afghanistan, the soldiers carry weapons and ammunition to reduce the load carried by the soldier.
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Where the company will manufacture the latest model can carry 180 kilograms and walk a distance of 32 km and does not require recharging only every 24 hours. As well as the ability to jump on the rocks and obstacles!http://www.botjunkie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bigdog_485.jpg


And uses the big dog cameras and GPS to the GPS tracking can battle group supported by an automated fashion.