

Boston Dynamics has recently posted an online video of its New SpotMini, the new form of the SpotMini robo-hound it revealed a year ago. This new kind is equivalent amounts of charming and alarming, able to run with a canine-like gait that is nearly similar. At the same time, it is a robot, one that strikes a pose by hunkering and gazing into your soul with its square, soulless mechanical face.





These robots, which have been compared to a variety of animals including dogs and wolves, come in different shapes and sizes, some even being humanoid. In their early days that is, only a couple of years back, these robots were massive, clumsy, moving in rigid, comical ways. Progress has moved quickly, though, and the modern-day versions of these same robots are far more capable.









Boston Dynamics lately teased the public with a short video (above) presenting “New SpotMini,” a new version of the robot the company launched in 2016. This new version is shown running outside, untethered, with a gait that is significantly more similar than in the past. It is not hard to see the animal inspiration that went into the robot.



