The robotic menagerie at Boston Dynamics has grown with the addition of Spot.
The Google -owned company have so far withheld substantial technical details about the machine but – as this video shows – Spot is very adept at indoor and outdoor manoeuvres.
Furthermore, the electrically powered and hydraulically actuated machine mirrors the capabilities of Big Dog when it comes to withstanding strong blows from a human.
Amazing capability. ‘Asimo’ was in the lead just a year or so ago and despite Asimo being bi-pedal and this ‘Ronkey’ being quadropedic with presumably fewer balance problems it seems to have taken the lead in the development of self propelling robots.
I really hope that one of these fine days a robot retaliates to all this violence 😉