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Spot (Boston Dynamic's dog) has learned a lot of new tricks:


It's come a long way since opening a door

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I find their work fascinating. Did you see the video of their robot that performs a gymnastics routine? It ends with a full turn jump. It sticks the landing. Amazing but kind of scary.
 
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Junilu Lacar wrote:I find their work fascinating. Did you see the video of their robot that performs a gymnastics routine? It ends with a full turn jump. It sticks the landing. Amazing but kind of scary.


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I am flabbergasted. I can't even start to imagine the software behind this... Mind blowing!

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Amazing, especially, how it maintains balance over very uneven and unstable surfaces!! But it's weird to me looking at the ones that don't have some kind of "head". Or maybe I am humanizing it too much!?!
 
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