>> ^bmacs27:

Not nearly as much as Honda has spent on Asimo. I know both groups. I've spoken personally with the director of the Asimo project. The lab I'm in has been a customer of Boston Dynamics since all they made were avatars for virtual environments. Boston Dynamics isn't that large a company, and they don't get that much defense money. They just have smart dudes.
>> ^mxxcon:
>> ^bmacs27:
>> ^mxxcon:
why don't they just buy technology from toyota's asimo and make it more agile?
it seems like they are reinventing stuff that japanese companies already developed.

This is way beyond Asimo.
and it took them how long and how much money?

throughout all the years that they've worked on bigdog, alphadog, (betadog?), littledog, this thing, I wouldn't be surprised if they got ~$50mil