Former Google robotics outfit Boston Dynamics announces 30kg quadruped will be available to buy for an as yet unknown priceFormer Google robotics outfit Boston Dynamics, famed for its advanced humanoid and canine automatons, has announced that it will begin sale of its headless robotic SpotMini next year. At a robotics conference in California, the company’s founder Marc Raibert announced that the slightly creepy SpotMini was currently in pre-production and scheduled for large-scale production and general availability from middle of 2019. Third-parties will be able to develop systems to mount to SpotMini for different applications, but Raibert said Boston Dynamics was working on a few systems itself. Play Video 0:24 SpotMini: headless robotic dog makes eerie entrance – videoWheeled security robots are already in the wild, with mixed results. Boston Dynamics’ owner SoftBank already sells a series of robots, of which the wheeled humanoid Pepper is the most recognisable.

Source: The Guardian May 14, 2018 11:26 UTC