Remember Boston Dynamics' SpotMini robot from last year? To refresh your memory, it was a sort of dog-giraffe hybrid with a lobster claw for a head.
Well, now they've made some design changes, and just yesterday they released this teaser video of the New SpotMini, racking up 1.2 million hits:
Apparently the giraffe/lobster parts have proved unworkable so they ditched them. By the bye, did you see that aperture in the middle of the thing's "face?" I've got no idea what it's for, but it looks like you shouldn't stick your hand in it.
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They should give it a function where it raises its leg to spray-paint QR codes on things it finds interesting.
BD scares the s**t out of me every time
Now imagine hearing 100 of those coming at you. That sound will signal your coming demise...
Cue Johnny Cash singing. "Goo, my robot faced egg sucking dog".
:-0