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The four-legged Spot robot from Boston Dynamics takes an active part in the training of the French army. They are trying to figure out how so far unarmed robots can interact with people shoulder to shoulder.
Iranian futuristic concept designer Amin Ahshi has unveiled the SN-3 Nova robot dog, which he says is capable of handling even the most difficult tasks. Judging by the fact that the designer is putting together a team, he is serious.
Recently, engineers from Boston Dynamics have taught the SpotMini robot to open doors, and now a four-legged small man is learning to navigate at the company's headquarters. Another video shows the run of the humanoid robot Atlas.
On the site of the national funding of Xiaomi in China, a fundraising campaign was started for amusing robots-players SIMI Football Robot. The toy was conceived as a child, but it would be interesting for adults too.
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a realistic robot fish and called it SoFi. The aim of the invention is to spy on other marine animals, especially deep-sea species, which are almost inaccessible for researchers.
The popular January exhibition CES 2018 pleases not only fans of smartphones, laptops, tablets and other gadgets, but also fans of robots. So the start-up from the USA Aeolus Robotics introduced the home-like robot Aeolus.
The picture above does not relate to the first video, but we will necessarily return to it a little lower. At the beginning of the week we wrote about the quad-copter DJI Phantom 2 Vision + with a 14-megapixel camera and three-axis image stabilization.
Robosobaki and robopylesosy do not give rest to inventors. The author of this Hyun-Seok Kim proposed to cross both of these concepts by proposing the concept of a home-made automated harvesting complex with a human face of a dog's muzzle. The docking station is located near the wall and looks like a mother dog, and four brisk robots act as puppies, along the way, doing cleaning work at home.
Philips decided that it's time for robots to start to enslave humanity to acquire their own robotic vacuum cleaner and introduced its stand-alone unit called HomeRun. The robot is equipped with 20 sensors, a built-in camera, a gyroscope, an infrared sensor and is able to independently map the area entrusted to it.
