Author: Marcé

My gamertag is more useful than a business card. I write about the tech industry, hardware, software, games, and motoring.

We’ve seen enough creepier-than-fiction four (and two) legged robots from Boston Dynamics to know that these critters will rule over humans in the future. And now we can help the takeover start faster by making our own robo-doggos, with a project called Doggo. A group of Stanford students created Doggo, a four-legged bot that can dance, backflip, jump and trot without requiring much fancy hardware. The mechanical canine is made of readily available supplies for a relatively minimal cost. For less than $3,000 (about R43,000) you can buy all the hardware and supplies needed to construct your own doggo. The…

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