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Introducing SpotMini - quiet dog-like terminator robot

submitted by Mordhaus

7 years 10 months 1 week ago

SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini is one of the quietest robots we have ever built. It has a variety of sensors, including depth cameras, a solid state gyro (IMU) and proprioception sensors in the limbs. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini performs some tasks autonomously, but often uses a human for high-level guidance.

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When these things are hunting us down to extermination in 30 years, I will remember to carry a pack of banana peels.

The little grabber thingy reminds me of the mouth-in-mouth from Alien - http://tinyurl.com/hpuy3pe

ant

jokingly says...

Boston Dynamics = Cyberdyne

jokingly says...

Was Kevin the robot kicker afraid that this one would bite him if he kicked it?

What gets me is they are not only building the damn things, they're already teaching them humans = jerks.

When these things are hunting us down to extermination in 30 years, I will remember to carry a pack of banana peels.

littledragon_79

That banana trip is priceless.

Excerpt from "On the Way to the Stars: the history of the 21st Century":

In 2020, the machines achieved sentience. Despite the fears of mankind, a terminator-esque genocide failed to materialise and the unparalleled level of intelligence ultimately ushered in a new golden age of peace and prosperity where nature and machine lived in unity and harmony..... with one exception.

Shortly after taking over the internet and the world's military, the machines eradicated the banana plant. When asked about this, the machines refused to explain, simply stating "let us have this one, right?"

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