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A nimble robot dog: Meet A1, a lifelike four-legged robot

• samcheng 6y ago
  Something about the 'tippy taps' that the robots are making when not moving is pretty unsettling to me. Definitely in the 'uncanny valley.' Spot from Boston Dynamics doesn't do the 'tippy taps' - but I remember their older models did. It looks a lot like what Boston Dynamics had maybe 5 years ago or so. With nice modern batteries I assume. Any clever innovation here?
  • phendrenad2 6y ago
    Yeah and it seems like a hack. "We can't figure out where the leg is, so slam it into the ground until it stops. Twice a second." Reminds me of resetting servo motors, or printers.
• thatguy0900 6y ago
  I've been hoping that cheap Boston dynamics clones would start coming out. I wonder how long it will take before something is really consumer affordable
  • candiodari 6y ago
    I wonder about that. Quite a few twitter replies about this being stolen technology. Not even replicated. Stolen.
    • thatguy0900 6y ago
      Would anybody really be surprised?
• Gys 6y ago
  A few days ago I backed this tiny version of Spot: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petoi/bittle/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petoi/bittle/descriptio...