The Spot dog robot from Boston dynamics costs ~$70,000 (base, no payload) and is marketed for inspection work. 🤔
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It’s a cool robot but I’m struggling to come up with a scenario where I wouldn’t just put 70k worth of networked sensors all over my plant. Or a bunch of sensors and a few simpler wheeled robots.
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Come to think of it dogs are a pretty useless form factor unless you’re a hunter. Their main no-companion feature is their nose. If you could put just the nose at the end of a stick, you’d dispense with the furry backend.
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A monkey might have been better. Can climb. Could add a prehensile tail.
Still, it’s cool and general enough I’d buy one if the price came down to like $1000 and it was much smaller for domestic indoor use. Chihuahua class rather than golden retriever.
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Monkey is probably the right form factor, but might be significantly more difficult to create. Climbing on nonferrous surfaces...?
The dog is probably primarily for military use. They mount cameras on live ones now.

