See Spot Backflip. Robodog Pulls Off a Feat It Wasn't Designed For

See Spot backflip. Robodog pulls off a feat it wasn't designed for

Boston Dynamics probably has the most show-offy robots on the planet right now, and the company's latest video shows that its robodog, Spot, is no exception. Spoiler alert: he nails a septuple back flip that is wildly impressive.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Boston Dynamics, Robots

Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Learns Gymnastics

Spot can do a lot of things, and now he can do backflips. I don't think Simone Biles has anything to worry about just yet, but it's a breakthrough in robotics. Why would a robot dog need to do gymnastics? Their clients don't need it. People who watch videos on the internet do, but that's not worth the research dollars. Robotics engineer Arun Kumar explains that a backflip requires precise abilities that are useful in the robot being able to reco…

Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot Dog Defies Gravity, Thanks to Reinforcement Learning

Boston Dynamics’ Spot, the four-legged robot dog that roams factory floors, has learned a new trick: it can jump into the air and flip and twist like an acrobat. Arun Kumar, a robotics engineer on Boston Dynamics’ Spot behavior team, calls teaching Spot to backflip a battle against hardware limits. Backflips are unnecessary for robots [...]