Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot Walks Runs on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits [Robots]
July 10th, 2009
What’s special about Bossa Nova ’s Prime-8 robot—a $100 descendant of DARPA and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute’s $20,000-a-pop all-terrain RHex designed for 10-year-old boys? It’s the fastest bipedal toy robot ever. Just watch. Prime-8 and Penbo ( shown here ) are the launch products for Bossa Nova Robotics, a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon ’s Robotics Institute with a really simple goal: To take awesome robotics tech out of the lab and put it in the hands of real people. Here, the primary technology repackaging…

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Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot Walks Runs on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits [Robots]
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