Testing of chemical protective suits for the U.S. Army. That is the reason for the development of PETMAN, an anthropomorphic robot, big brother of the Big Dog quadruped, and can also move on all terrains and in all possible situations (walking, crawling and achieve high turnover).

The big technological advance of Boston Dynamics versus bipeds like Asimo (Honda) is its similarity to the behavior of the human body, both in how to move that simulate human physiology (temperature control, d ‘humidity, until eventually the production of sweat, to provide maximum realistic conditions to test.

The development program began with a design phase of 13 months. It will be followed by a period of 17 months for construction, installation and testing, production implementation of the robot in 2011. But nothing to watch his step, one can not help but see a preview of robot soldiers coming entirely controlled remotely like today’s robots are tracked, including the precise action has not been conclusive, as it must, in particular Iraq.