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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoston Dynamics' new SpotMini robot
From https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/13/16645762/boston-dynamics-spotmini-robot-dog-less-terrifying-wtf
Boston Dynamics latest robot dog is slightly less terrifying
by Nick Statt | @nickstatt | Nov 13, 2017, 3:59pm EST
Robot maker Boston Dynamics, now owned by Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank, just published a short YouTube clip featuring a new, more advanced version of its SpotMini robot. SpotMini, first unveiled in June 2016, started out as a giraffe-looking chore bot that was pretty terrible at performing tasks around the house, and, in one short clip, hilariously ate it on a cluster of banana peels like a character straight out of a slapstick cartoon.
The new SpotMini looks much more polished and less grotesque, like a real-life cross between a Pixar animation and a robot out of a Neill Blomkamp vision of the future, thanks in part to series of bright yellow plates covering its legs and body. The new bots movement also looks incredibly fluid. It shows just how much progress Boston Dynamics is making on its goal of life-like, animal-inspired robots that can move and respond to the forces in the real world.
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by Nick Statt | @nickstatt | Nov 13, 2017, 3:59pm EST
Robot maker Boston Dynamics, now owned by Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank, just published a short YouTube clip featuring a new, more advanced version of its SpotMini robot. SpotMini, first unveiled in June 2016, started out as a giraffe-looking chore bot that was pretty terrible at performing tasks around the house, and, in one short clip, hilariously ate it on a cluster of banana peels like a character straight out of a slapstick cartoon.
The new SpotMini looks much more polished and less grotesque, like a real-life cross between a Pixar animation and a robot out of a Neill Blomkamp vision of the future, thanks in part to series of bright yellow plates covering its legs and body. The new bots movement also looks incredibly fluid. It shows just how much progress Boston Dynamics is making on its goal of life-like, animal-inspired robots that can move and respond to the forces in the real world.
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Boston Dynamics' new SpotMini robot (Original Post)
sl8
Nov 2017
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lunamagica
(9,967 posts)2. hmmm...no. Still creepy. Give it a head
sl8
(13,874 posts)5. You might like the previous iteration better.
May want to skip to about the 50 second mark.
Banana peels incident is at about 1:28.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)7. A bit better. Don't get me wrong, the technology is mind-blowing
but when it comes to dogs, I still prefer the warm, furry and cuddly kind
Irish_Dem
(47,334 posts)3. I have always wanted my own robot. I hope that can happen before I die. nt
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. Boston Dynamics already perfected the robot
Why are they messing with perfection?
sl8
(13,874 posts)6. It looks like 'Atlas' is still in the lineup: