Boston Dynamics' robot dog has new skills! Rope skipping, gardening, housework, and calligraphy

Jia Haonan from Aofei Temple
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After performing a group dance and earning Elon Musk's admiration, Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot has a new talent.

The Spot Arm , equipped with a robotic arm , even learned to jump rope in groups of three:

For the robot dog, jumping is not a difficult task, but swinging the "rope" requires the help of a new robotic arm.

The extra robotic arm further enhances the robot dog's capabilities, making it truly capable of both office work and housework.

Calligraphy, gardening, production...what else don't you know?

"Rope skipping" is just a show of skill, but when it comes to real work, the robot dog is very capable.

Skills to help you with housework and collecting laundry at home:

Help the elderly and children open and close doors at home:

In addition to housework, I also do gardening and grow flowers and fruits:

Once you leave your home and come to your work environment, Spot Arm's robot can operate switches and buttons on various production lines:

It can also handle heavy tasks such as dragging heavy objects:

Finally, the versatile Spot Arm also performed calligraphy skills to end the exhibition:

"Crazy, scary, but so cool"!

Netizens were excited to see the Boston Dynamics dog, which is almost omnipotent.

Some people hope that the future evolution of the robot can really help people cook and do housework at home:

The guy also asked, if he didn’t have cash, could he directly exchange it for GME stocks?

Following the recent US stock market frenzy, some people even @ the official account, urging them to IPO as soon as possible so that everyone can buy new shares...

Of course, some people also saw something worrying: the robot dog is good, but this long and thin device is probably an arm or a head and neck.

This shape, like a lizard or a dinosaur, would probably scare the elderly and children if it were really placed at home to do housework.

But the appearance still can't stop people from evaluating the robot dog: "Crazy, magical, scary, but so cool"!

In fact, Boston Dynamics' robot dog grew arms and had a prototype demonstration in 2018, which was implemented on a lightweight version of Spotmini:

This time, Boston Dynamics installed a robotic arm on Spot and established a new production line for this new model.

The animated images demonstrated above are all from the official demo, and the preview will be officially announced at tomorrow’s CES event live broadcast.

The live link is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvTdNwyADZc

Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zbhvaac68Y