It’s as if providing cheetah-like speed to an advanced robot wasn’t great enough. The engineers over at Boston Dynamics need to have been believing to themselves, exactly how can we make this thing even a lot more menacing? The response seems to be adding a highly dexterous articulated arm that provides the robot the capability to chuck objects as heavy as cinder blocks. We’re not kidding, look at the picture above as well as you’ll see one mid-flight in the upper left. A quick browse tells us that block most likely evaluates 30 pounds!

BigDog is a research study job for the us armed forces that we’ve seen navigating all type of terrain. It’s a heavy lifter able to bring tons where other machinery cannot. however now they’ve added an appendage that reminds us of an elephant’s trunk. It branches off of BigDog’s body where a quadruped’s neck would be. At the end of the appendage is a gripper that looks much like what you’d seen on industrial assembly robots. however sufficient talk, click with to see the action video. Oh, as well as if you didn’t pick up on the cheetah recommendation we made earlier you’ll want to inspect out this post.

[Thanks John]