Meet Fluffy! Ford hires Boston Dynamics’ robot dog to scan its Michigan manufacturing plant with lasers to help employees retool Ford has leased two of Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot dogs The bots will use lasers and cameras to scan facilities to help with retooling One has been nicknamed Fluffy and the other kept the original … Read more
Footage has emerged of one of Boston Dynamics’ robotic dogs patrolling a SpaceX test site in the US. The video allegedly shows SpaceX using the $75,000 (£60,000) robotic dog to inspect the aftermath of its test site in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX had just been conducting a cryogenic pressure test on the Starship SN7 dome … Read more
Boston Dynamics first showed off SpotMini, the most advanced robot dog ever created, in a video posted in November 2017. The firm, best known for Atlas, its 5 foot 9 (1.7 metre) humanoid robot, has revealed a new ‘lightweight’ version of its robot Spot Mini. The robotic canine was shown trotting around a yard, with … Read more
Boston Dynamics first showed off SpotMini, the most advanced robot dog ever created, in a video posted in November 2017. The firm, best known for Atlas, its 5 foot 9 (1.7 metre) humanoid robot, has revealed a new ‘lightweight’ version of its robot Spot Mini. The robotic canine was shown trotting around a yard, with … Read more
Paw patrol! Footage shows Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot herding sheep on a farm in New Zealand Spot gathered together the unruly farm animals with the help of two sheepdogs Robot can reach speeds of up to 3mph and costs less than £30,000 to lease Video also shows the robot marching through an orchard and … Read more
Boston Dynamics’ Spot the robotic ‘dog’ deployed in Singapore parks to tell people to keep a safe distance – as its cameras record how many people are in public spaces Boston Dynamics’s four-legged ‘Spot’ robot is patrolling parks in Singapore The bot plays recorded messages and estimating the number of people It is in a testing … Read more