Trash Gobbling Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond! Science Astro the robot dog kinda sorta looks like a real dog Florida Atlantic University decided a head, tail, eyes and ears were a good idea.

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Also, aside from the cuteness factor, watching a dog play with a robot is far more enjoyable than watching a bunch of humans abuse a robot. The video is embedded below.

Culture Google's robot dog meets a real dog and gets trash-talked Technically Incorrect: A tiny terrier refuses to be intimidated by the huge mass of metal. It shows the machine who's boss.

Maybe because those other dogs bark at it, try to herd it, and in general make its robotic life miserable. A real life dog (named Cosmo, and owned by Android co-founder Andy Rubin) sees Spot, then ...

Scientists used AI neural networks to teach a robot dog new tricks, enabling it to climb wooden crates and hop between them.

A recently published video shows Spot, the robotic dog developed by Google-owned Boston Dynamics, playing with a real dog.

They're not about to replace real-life therapy dogs, but research shows that motorized mutts can benefit people struggling with loneliness or dementia.

All this training allowed the researchers to develop a “single vision-based parkour policy” for each skill that could be deployed in real robots. And the results were incredibly effective.