Looking for a last-minute gift for a robotics fan? This Legged Squad Support System (LS3) calendar stars BigDogs, rather than dogs.
It's the creation of Daan van Dijk, a Dutch designer who spotted some images of the Boston Dynamics robots on Twitter. "Here are military robots (with still unknown future goals) on one hand, and on the other the images reminded me of something else; the pictures I take of my cats," he said on his Tumblr. "The makers had formed a relation of some sorts with these LS3s, reminiscent of a living dog with its owner."
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-12/22/darpa_2013
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