The latest offering from Boston Dynamics could be the robot dog of the future
Boston Dynamics’ new SpotMini looks pretty darn cool.
The world has been given a first glimpse of the new SpotMini robot from Boston Dynamics…
In a teaser video posted to YouTube by the company on Monday, the “new” SpotMini was unveiled. With a yellow plastic outer casing and smooth, lifelike movements, the latest iteration of the electric robot trots up to the camera, seems to look directly at it, and jogs away.
A previous version of the robot had a large “arm” on the top of it, which contained sensors to help the robot judge its surroundings. The new version is much more streamlined and more similar to an actual dog in appearance.
Boston Dynamics was formerly owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, but was sold to Japanese firm SoftBank in August. Evidently this has not affected production, judging by the unveiling of SpotMini on Monday.
