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Adam Savage’s channel just put up a great video on a Spot he received.
Here is the link for anyone else that wants to watch it
I think Boston Dynamics is the closest to making robots that could actually be useful in real life situations. I would love to develop code for one of these.
There are a number of robotics companies (Savioke, Fetch Robotics, Bear Robotics, MiR, to name a few) that are producing robots that are currently doing work in the real world. I will fully grant that those all require in-advance mapping and fairly level floors, but to me that can fit "real life situations".
Note: I have worked at one of those, and got an offer at another.
But do you see the difference between Boston Dynamics (BD) and {Savioke, Fetch Robotics, Bear Robotics, MiR} ?
BD's robots move using limbs while others use small-er wheels which limits the terrains these robots can be used in.
Is there a spot simulator that can run this code?
If there isn't one called cspotrun, I'm going to be seriously disappointed with their development team.
Anyone know roughly what one of these cost?
You can only lease Spot, and the cost is roughly around the monthly cost of a luxury car lease. You're also prohibited in the lease agreement from attaching anything to a hard point that is solely designed to cause human harm (weapons of any sort).
Funny, the first thought that came to mind about the hardpoint system was that it would be trivial to attach a weapon.
My first though was attach pistol to top of it, just so it looks comically menacing.