It has no hydraulics.
SpotMini inherits all of the mobility of its bigger brother, Spot, while adding the ability to pick up and handle objects using its 5 degree-of-freedom arm and beefed up perception sensors. The sensor suite includes stereo cameras, depth cameras, an IMU, and position/force sensors in the limbs. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation.
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You know how when dogs are asleep, they sometimes move their paws like they’re running? Well now you know what they’re running from.
When I started studying robots at high school a few years ago, there were some simulations that showed how we could computationally train systems to “move” naturally, though that didn’t translate well to real life robots. I read a bit about the topic and I found it really interesting, one of these problems that seem so simple to us, but are so difficult to solve in real life engineering. I don’t know how are they doing it nowadays, but leaving militar purposes aside, seeing how we can “simulate” nature and “teach” man-made robots to move every time more naturally… I find that fascinating.
Calling it a robot dog? Anyone can see it’s a dinosaur.
“Calling it a robot dog? Anyone can see it’s a dinosaur.”
With the brain in the “body” and eyes and tactile sensors in the “hand” it’s more like a puppeteer 🙂
It’s a dog – it even has a pair of nuts back there for it to lick.
All you need to add is some speech recognition and planning software to have a robot that could really get itself in some real trouble. 😉
But is it housetrained?