Behold Spot, the Robot Dog Who’s Not Just for Kicks
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See Spot.
See Spot is a robot with no head. See Spot walk. See Spot run. See Spot climb stairs.
See Spot…get kicked?
Okay, yeah, it’s a test to see if Spot can restabilize after getting its equilibrium forcibly adjusted, but still – kick a dog enough times and he’ll bite you. Kick a robot dog enough times, your ass might be terminated one day. For now, presumably, they still have off-switches.
Spot is a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. Spot has a sensor head that helps it navigate and negotiate rough terrain. Spot weighs about 160 lbs.
That’s a head? Okay, so it just doesn’t have a neck then.
h/t Gallen_Dugall
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist