"Da Gou", The China Big Dog Robot

Two years ago, Boston Dynamic's four legged Big
Dog robot was recruited as the U.S. Army's Legged
Squad Support System (LS3) tech demonstrator.
But in the meantime, China has not been standing
still in the field of bionic robots. At a late August
expo on unmanned technologies, NORINCO provided
the first official look at a Chinese quadruped robot,
officially named Mountainous Bionic Quadruped
Robot (unofficially, people have dubbed it "Da Gou",
which is Mandarin for Big Dog).
Da Gou Specifications This exhibition information
card lists some of the specifications for Da Gou,
including its intended infantry resupply, support,
rescue and recon missions. hswz at cjdby.net
Developed by the NORINCO Vehicle Research
Institute of arms manufacturer NORINCO, this "Da
Gou" weighs 130kg by itself and can carry a 30kg
payload. Da Gou can trot at a speed of about 6
kilometers an hour, and can handle slopes of up to
30 degrees.  The Da Gou's size speed and slope
climbing capability is similar to that of Big Dog (110
kg, 6.4 kmh and 35 degrees), Big Dog and LS3
carries 150-300kg of cargo.
The smaller carrying capacity of Da Gou indicates
that the NORINCO program is still in the very early
stages of technology demonstration; future models
will likely have greater carrying capacity, speed and
batteries that exceed the current two hours of
operation.  Similar to LS3's military mission, "Da
Gou" is intended to carry supplies alongside infantry
in mountainous and urban terrain, the placard at the
exhibit also indicates that Da Gou is intended to
serve in disaster relief efforts and conduct
battlefield reconnaissance as well.  And just like
LS3, "Da Gou" could potentially carry weapons in
the future.
Currently there is no information yet on what
happens if the Da Gou robot is abused by its maker,
as happened in the famous YouTube clip of its
American equivalent getting kicked by a mean
human engineer.