Spot the robot dog's progress

Whatever your awareness of robotic dogs, this infomercial by Boston Dynamics about how its robot dog Spot is coming along may be of interest. As the engineering and design company explains: "On a typical day, our customers are operating the Spot® robot in factories, foundries, substations, sub basements, and beyond. Spot encounters all kinds of obstacles and environmental changes, but it still needs to safely complete its mission without getting stuck, falling, or breaking anything. While there are challenges and obstacles that we can anticipate and plan for—like stairs or forklifts—there are many more that are difficult to predict. To help tackle these edge cases, we used AI foundation models to give Spot a better semantic understanding of the world". The footage is a mix of Spot in action and explanation by Boston Dynamic engineers. Do you find this reasonably clear and transparent? Would you like to see more of this kind of campaign to help surf the waves of artificial intelligence (AI) constantly breaking around (and over) us?

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