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The latest robot to come out of the labs of Google-owned Boston Dynamics is a nippy machine that can climb stairs and uneven terrain with relative ease.
Google-owned Boston Dynamics (BD) has shown off its latest robotic creation, an agile bot named after man's best friend.
Spot, seen on the far left, is a four-legged robot that appears to be a smaller, faster version of BD's more famous BigDog, also pictured here among BD's family of quadrupedal bots.
Weighing in at 160 lbs, compared to BigDog's 240, Spot shares the larger robot's ability to use its sensor head to negotiate rough terrain.
BD hasn't revealed how Spot works other than to say it's electrically powered with hydraulic motors. However, it appears to share sensor technology with BigDog, which relies on sensors measuring joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a gyroscope, LIDAR and a stereo vision system.
Caption by: Nick Heath
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