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Boston Dynamics’ Terminator-like ‘PETMAN’ robot tests chemical suits

A Boston Dynamics "PETMAN" robot tries out a chemical suit. Photo: Screenshot via YouTube.

Defense contractor Boston Dynamics has new video of its Terminator-like “PETMAN” robot standing, walking, posing and… wearing a chemical protection suit, for some reason. The project is funded in part by the Defense Department’s Chemical and Biological Defense program, CNet reported Monday. For the test seen embedded below, Boston Dynamics…

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Watch: ‘BigDog’ robot throws cinder block across a room

The "Big Dog" robot demonstrates its throwing power. Photo: Screenshot via YouTube.

A robot known as the “BigDog,” created by Boston Dynamics at the behest of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), demonstrated a new capability in a video published Thursday featuring the pack-mule creation lifting a cinder block and using its whole body to throw it, like a human athlete…

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