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Boston Dynamics Spot robot looks like a dog (at least like a mechanical dog) and was designed to operate in a variety of complex environment, with complex meaning uneven pavement, cluttered with “stuff” (including people). This is pretty challenging for a robot, it requires both the awareness on what is …

This August workers at Ford’s Michigan Van Dyke Transmission plant are seeing two four legged robots, Spot and Fluffy, walk around the plant sniffing with their laser at all objects like high-tech dogs. The robots have been designed and produced by Boston Dynamics and are now on the market for …

Atlas, a humanoid robot 1.5 m tall, made the headlines in 2013 as one of the most advanced humanoid robot ever developed. It weighted 75kg, could carry 11kg of groceries (or anything else!), had a stereo vision (using Lidar) and 28 joints providing flexibility in its movement and the capability …