Meet Sparkles | Boston Dynamics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- This #InternationalDanceDay, Spot is meeting another strange dog and making friends through the power of dance. Meet Sparkles!
Sparkles is a custom costume designed just for Spot to explore the intersections of robotics, art, and entertainment. Learn how we build Spot's steps using Spot's Choreographer software: bostondynamics...
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"Who's a good boy?"
*turns head 180°*
Nope
"It is I father. I am the good boy. My dog matrix has analysed every possible scenario, and only in the scenarios in which I am the good boy, will you walk away alive."
@@kongcarrot1728that checks out, logically consistent and everything. What a good boy!
Don't forget *fully extends prehensile neck*
@@kongcarrot1728 Tony Stark with the time stone.
👁️👄👁️
“How can we make this dog more likable?”
“Let’s program him to do a lil jig”
Give this man a raise
.... *Slams table*
I LOVE IT!! I'LL TAKE THE ENTIRE STOCK!! LOOK AT THAT FUNNY LIL DANCE! ONLY A CERTIFIED GOOD BOY CAN DANCE LIKE THAT!
Jiggy😂🎉
Everyone is happy until it extends it's head
It is going to be doing that dance over our cold dead bodies some day…
Everybody wants to pet the dog until its neck extends 4 feet.
I'm crying at this comment 😂
My dog can pretty much do that if there's food on a high table.
Happened with ET
You forgot that the head is attached to the body so it will probably be more like "The Thing" where the head rips off and starts to dangle with the "spine" still attached.
the comment section in a boston dynamics vid never ceases to entertain 🤣
Gotta say, the costumed robot looks way scarier than just the robot with dog like movements
Yeah it's the uncanny valley.
They shot right over that valley a while ago with the parkour bot being able to balance after being SHOVED. I guess it's in the name, but the way these robots move is the uncanny valley part for me more than any furry rental suit ever will.
@@komred64
EXACTLY
@@komred64that’s not what the uncanny valley is
See, I actually find it less intimidating, which is THE ACTUALLY SCARY PART. How easy will it be to get people used to robots everywhere if all you need to do is dress them up like Sesame Street characters?
Just slap a muppet on it…said an engineer at 3 am. Amazing!
Jim Henson would have loved somthing like this....
Somewhere in Hollywood.."Get the Prop Department on the phone and tell them to fly to Boston Dynamics with a checkbook!"
Or a The Storyteller reboot
really just copying that YT video of them creating a cursed furby dog.
It's not a Dog. Watch the video with no music. Y'all fall for anything
The fact that this thing could extend its neck several feet and open doors is a terrifying thought
Music box Toreador March intensifies
Except it never extends its neck at all and you just took this claim from another comment.
@@0xAA55 oooo debunked!
@@0xAA55It does. His neck is a spot arm, and it can do that.
@@0xAA55 but it definitely can because the dog head is just attached to the armature of spot. Probably not an intended use as its horrifying but it definitely can do that
Finally we have done it. Humans have invented: Dog
for the second time
There's a plus side to all this ya don't gotta worry 'bout pickin' up da doo doo. 🤣
Any living real dog would be horrified to see the furry giant
And if it "dies" you can just fix it brand as new. 🙃
Dog eats man.
Women inherit the earth.
I love how every Boston Dynamics video is just robots busting it down because that's the best way to showcase the performance
The robot apocalypse is gonna be way cuter than we could have imagined 🥹
and that's somehow a good thing? 😅
Lol underrated comment
It will more than Five Nights at Freddy's for sure.
More fake cgi shite from a fake company. Stop tryin to make robots happen please... humanity is on 100+ years of this supposed robot revolution and it will NEVER happen. Gotta keep the investors happy and the stock price optimal, so these videos they produce are THE product. I mean, I can't even get good cell service 60% of the time and its 2024 people, so please spare us with the robo dogs doing back flips on the jungle gym obstacle course.
It won't be as cute once that fur gets burned off in an explosion caused by the machines escaping
- If dogs are so good then how come there's no Dog 2?
Boston Dynamics:
-Hold my Altas knee fluid.
The new Atlas doesn't use hydraulics
@@thebigE48800 Yes.. it was a reference to the "farewell Atlas" video
@@Matt_STS how?
@@thebigE48800 Several clips of Old Atlas falling over, ripping a hydraulic line and spraying fluid everywhere
whenever atlas' hydraulic fluid sprays out its like its bleeding.
"You have 3 seconds to pet me or you.will.be.EXTERMINATED."
never thought i would see a dr who reference here
@@Noon1263Frieren the Anime is out
No point coercing me when I’ll do it anyway
Imagining a dog with a dalek voice is both hilarious and terrifying
It's a very good anime. I'd rewatch it any day.@@ls200076
Its so fun living in the flashback to a robot apocalypse.
and we all see it coming but we're kinda just cool with it because how would a robot overlord even be able to make the world more fcked up than those who are already in charge xD
Cant wait to get turned into the great soft jelly thing🗣🗣🗣🗣
@@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn the people in charge right now will be the one's controlling the robots, humanity is done for
As if it weren't frightening enough to imagine a post-apocalyptic world where a robot dog, equipped with a chainsaw, hunts you down as you huddle for warmth under the floorboards of your shack. Now instead of cold plastic and steel, you're greeted with the face of sparkles brandishing the same chainsaw. My god.
"Robot dog with chainsaw"
... You mean IF prototype LQ-84i ?
@@stardust_sonicdidnt expect a metal gear rising reference xD
BORN
INTO A PACK
Robot dogs with flamethrowers already exist, so this is nothing new.
Yeah, id rather have the soulless mechanical killing machine look like a soulless mechanical killing machine rather than this fluffy costumed Abomination, when its about to end me.
Sparkles is cool and all, but if that thing came shambling into my room at 2:00 AM, I’d shit my entire intestinal tract.
hot
Shambling? I think you mean shuffling…
It's a cyberfurry, I think uncontrollable fear is completely justified
It's uncanny valley thing
@@briannabanks1659 Shambling means moving with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait.
"I need your cloths, boots, and for you to throw that tennis ball one more time"
Underrated comment 😂
Solid gold!
He is the furminator and is .. a good boy
Furminator is back!!
Exactly
While that's uncanny, I really want to see this kind of tech in movies that use practical effects. Like, can you imagine this being used in a creepycomfy movie like Neverending Story?
Yeah or imagine it in Star Wars
@@IcidLink Well, I'd say it's unlikely in modern Star Wars but even when George was still in control, he preferred CGI.
But as some movies proof every once in a while, practical effects aren't dead. Take the Dungeons and Dragons movie for example.
thats it haha
i never wanna see this thing on the streets but it may make a good animatronic
Now this is the dystopian hell scape I've been waiting for.
YEAAAAAHHH
That's what I'm talking about
What is so dystopian and hellish about this?
@@psychomantis2485 it's dystopian because that's not a real dog. It's a marketable robotic platform, a hallmark of technology, in a time when the civilisation that created it is heading for demographic collapse
“At least we had cartoonish dogs before the end came.” 😂
Finally! A Dog that sheds not just hair, but glitter also!
Strippers?
Nope - my dog.
@@userOSBERT Strippers shed glitter? Wow, I was on the fence on whether I should go to that type of business, but now that I know that they shed glitter, I -definitely will not- DEFINITELY WILL! I mean, c'mon, who doesn't _absolutely love_ finding pieces of glitter all over everywhere for many centuries 😂
@@robertjenkins6132I once dumped two bottles of glitter in my brother's hair while he was playing a game
@@robertjenkins6132
Ho ho ho z. Is what you want
They put a wig on a killing machine and had it do a little dance.
*Dystopian future intensifies*
Tessa Elliot be like:
@@snowbelltheicewing66NO WAY TESSA IN REAL LIFE1??11??1?1111?1??1 [ REAL!!!!! ]
What drug did you take to classify a simple dog-like-robot as a killing machine ?
Yup.
Bro is dialed in. He knows it's purpose and intent.
The uncanny valley goes hard in this one
Uncanny valley has to be very similar. This looks like a shitty cartoon.
Honestly I think the robot is a lot cuter without the dog costume on. There’s already something life like about it
Yeah. It's creepy with a costume
@@MrClearme skin walking
totally agree, but i suppose it works fine if consider this more like a proof of concept of custom skins for some events
I Disagree, it's not lifelike at all. All it is is programming. The rest of it is advertising. Writing a specific story and having their robots act it out. It's not special, just gimmicky. And look they've managed to fool you too like the rest of most people.
@@michaels.330 Keep freedom fighting against the robotics company!
What are you, demented? Kind of a weird cause you are behind. I don't think anybody doesn't know it's programming, but if a small company can make toy robots for kids that can see terrain inside the house its not too farfetched to think this company can do it at a larger scale.
Seriously though, Spot's mobility is REALLY impressive! The Sparkles coat looks like a blue Sprocket (Fraggle Rock)
Read through comments just hoping to see this.
OMG IT DOES LOOK LIKE SPROCKET THOUGH LOL
Yeah, Spot's incredible IMO! The new Atlas isn't too shabby either!
This exactly.
mr sparkles 🗣️🗣️💥💥🔥🔥
Peoples:*waiting a video about New atlas*
Boston Dynamics:I think its time for robo-dog dance
And they are god damn right.
"New Atlas" still isn't up to speed... pure advertising trying not to become obsolete... not to be eclipsed by Muskie's bot and the Japanese and Chinese better humanoid robots. ESG/DIE hiring coming home to roost.
@@jeffreyspinner5437Pretty sure they already have the new Atlas robot lifting tires n shit 😭 we need only see their video on it
@@jeffreyspinner5437
It's not like you know its characteristics just by watching a video... who knows, maybe it's much more advanced than Tesla and the Chinese.
@@strangeunivers That would be a cogent argument IF we didn't see it move already, at speed, and see every joint's degrees of freedom.
To me, it looks like a Tesla ripoff just done poorly and with much less artistry, and the prior "Boston" Dynamics robot was doing backflips. Ugly af, but it was capable, imo.
The new one looks like it's a dude able to kiss his machine male organ... didn't you notice that, I thought that was weird to show as an introduction. Look everyone I can autofellate... I was like wtf? [some /sk]
If it is more advanced than the Chinese and Tesla's bot, show us... right? Ppl can say anything, making some fake CGI stuff at least to fool the audience is the least I would expect... but they didn't even do that.
I think there are many, many people (especially children) who would prefer such a dog to a real one...😢
Before everyone says "No!"... Think carefully...
The Robo-Dog never gets sick, he never dies, he doesn't make a mess, he doesn't have to go outside, he's funny and can dance, you save on vet costs, he's easy to get along with, never bites and is always in a good mood...
"Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should"
- Ian Malcom
I keep thinking about this quote every day
Put comas man, read it 3-4 times to understand ❤
@@copperalone8487 dear heart, there were as many commas as were needed so it's weird to ask them to add more
bro issa robot dog
@@triceratops3 so scared and for what smh 🙄🙄
They shouldn't be feared but rather welcomed
Bring it to a dog park, I wanna see how actual dogs react to it.
Dogs would.smell it and know it wasn't a dog. They rely more on their sense of smell than vision
@@ammaleslie509 Obviously you've never worn a halloween mask around a dog. They might verify stuff with their nose, but they still have a reaction to visual stimulation.
@@ammaleslie509 That's why my dog recognizes dogs on TV are dogs. Because he can smell them so well.
@@timseguine2 yes if course they use their sight, but when there is a conflict between sight and smell they trust smell more.
That's why you can hide in a box and your dog won't see you and be confused, but eventually they would smell the box and find you.
so they would know quickly that sparkles isn't a dog
it could get destroyed or get an aggressive response, every living thing that has the brain capacity to feel fear is afraid of the unknown and dogs will very quickly notice something is off
Ok so armageddon will be humans getting chased down by animatronic muppets with googly eyes and cute voices. That is quite possible the most nightmare fuel thing i've imagined in a long time. Hollywood doesnt need writes, Boston dynamic writes this shit for free
Jesus christ, give it a rest, robots won't cause armageddon. You tired, brainless lossrs have been yelling this for years, and it still hasn't happened. Develop a new thought.
I mean, FNAF already exists, so writers got there before reality--per usual, frankly.
Too young to remember Muffit from Battlestar Gallatica?
I work for the destruction of humanity!
Less furry but Horizon Zero Dawn with machines
the little mechanical wiggles making it look like hes sniffing is the cutest god dam thing iv seen today.
Imagine living on your own, and you'd come home to this thing dancing infront of you without any music at the end of a dark hallway with its' eyes glowing. Then you remember you didn't charge it last night...
just make sure you don't get them from Fazbear Entertainment.
I remember Battington made a video about something like that
RoboDoggie from Costco ☠️
“I forgot!”, you thought, “it’s powered by sunlight!”
@@mrlaz9011 The animatronics do get a bit quirky at night
My cat immediately started starring at the screen like "wtf is that thing?" 😂
Silly kitty 😂
Michael Dogson, obviosly
even animals recognize uncanny man-made imitations of real creatures
How nice of them to not want to scare us when we’re being rounded up by robots. Very considerate. Thanks.
Nah. They won't need to round us up. They can just cut off our electricity, gas, and water, and that'll do the trick.
Ahem. Can't wait for the human female models 😈
The apocalypse will be lead by adorable robo-puppers!
💖🐕💀💀💀
If you manage to get "round up" by a fluffy blue dog robot then idk if there's much hope saving you
@@maymayman0 You’re right…I’m definitely the hopeless one.
Oh look.. The pending creators of the apocalypse have given their kkiler robot a cute fur-look... Aww. How adorable.
chicken little
“Tickle my tummy. You have ten seconds to comply… You have five seconds to comply…”
Thanks but no
Use of lethal cuteness authorised
😂 😂
This THING is giving off some serious Stephen King "The Thing" vibes. "Oh look at that cute blue dog! OH MY GOD, its neck is getting 4 times longer, and its face splits into 4!
uhhh that's not a Stephen King story.
@@StevoDesign I think he might have been mixing up IT and the Thing
You’re thinking about John Carpenter, not Stephen King.
More like Pet Sematary vibes if it’s Stephen King
Stephen King wrote "It". John Carpenter directed "The Thing".
Imagine if they dressed combat bots like that lol
They probably will
I would be more terrified
With a mounted M2 browning on its back 😂
Aw hell nah thats the world where Freddy Fazbear is actually deployed in Ukraine 💀
This are combat bots just unequipped.
I like how making spot be able dance was a genuinely a priority when coming up with his design
You added fur to Spot. Now the time has come to add Skin to Atlas
Please noooo...
Oh helll naw man
Ew no
The truth is they did that years ago we just can't tell who is atlas. 😂
"Sophia" getting the ICK face. While you're at it give it a wig and call her M3GAN
I want a whole season of “dogs reacting to sparkles”
How about we make it hidden camera and they let Sparkle loose at the dog park. I want the dog owners response too! 😂
for some reason every dog keeps going into either the fight, flight, or freeze response.. We cant possibly understand why
@@cory99998imagine you're just chilling and then a skinny version of a human with a long neck, weird collors and made out of metal shows up
These can be used to train dogs a certain way.
Sprocket! That’s why the dog looked familiar!
Boston dynamics is having its creepy nightmare fuel phase and I’m all for it. 😂
They literally saw how popular five nights at Freddy's was, and was like "yeah let's go for that approach." 😂
Dude, have you even seen the first prototype of their robots? That shit was stuff of pure nightmare! This is fairytale compare to those.
@@Tien1million Link please! LOL
"It's not just a phase!"
@@kairi4640wait until they start using remnants
Now we need a Boston Dynamics dinosaur.
One of the reasons I love Boston Dynamics is how they are able to both show off their robots and their capabilities seriously and to show them off via dressing them up in costumes and making them dance and kiss each other. Wonderful company for both types of people.
Some people even like both aspects.
this coudl be a creat way to make practical effects for fantasy creatures in films and shows the norm again, by just dressing up boston dynamic robots lol
@@charityquill4965 Eh, I wouldn't go that far. You can still obviously tell they're robots from how they move, and buying robots just to use them as props would get very expensive very quickly. CGI is better for fantasy creatures because it's less expensive and more believable.
@@antman7673 I like both of them, yes c:
How much did they pay you to say this?
What a beautiful way to keep your pet's memory alive, taxidermy + Boston Dynamics = immortal pet
Lmao don’t give them any ideas!
oh my god noooo 😭🙏
When pet semetary is more ethical.
This is why capitalism is wrong
Unfortunately I have a pomeranian, so at best it'll look like it's wearing an 80's punk hair wig.
Is it just me or does the costume just add fuel for nightmares? I'd rather know I'm looking at a robot 😂
No you're not the only one. Just look at the comments. That's some grade A body horror stuff. 😂
@@kairi4640Five Nights at Boston Dynamics 😂😮
A lot of people with artificial limbs prefer to have them look like robotic hands instead of rubber flash, mostly realistic looking ones because of this reason. It's called the uncanny valley. The closer you get to looking real the more the flaws in it stand out and creep you out.
Although it's a very good attempt at making it look cute, The unnatural neck is the stuff of nightmares 😂
BD knows they can't make it less creepy. They're doubling down.
it's a sparkly blue muppet dog with robot legs. anybody with functioning eyes would be able to tell its not a real ass animal
Nobody can see it now but the movie industry is going to be revolutionized by these robots.
And I'm excited as f** 😂😂😎
Boston Dynamics just entered their sparkledog OC era, I'm so happy for them.
Right?! XD
😂😂😂😂😂 This!
hahshsh slay
Engineer:Should we animate the dogs face at all?
Manager: Do I look like I have chuck-e-cheese in 1981 money!?
Before the bite.
Skynet's first attempt to appear harmless.
How long til one of these waddles up alongside you and demands to see your licence and insurance
Exactly a year from now
Should have hired a furry.
@@klatewilson5170 Agenda 21 will be implemented by 2030, the ETA for the real metaverse (unlike the immature sketches we've seen) is somewhere around 2035-40.
We have a lot more coming in before robots start patrolling the streets, WW3, Financial collapse, CBDC etc. But I'm sure they'll put these to work asap.
Imagine advanced, walking, interacting, characters at theme parks.
They do have a spot at Disney World. It's not nearly as cool as one would think though. Universal studio's raptor puppets and the transformer stilts give a much cooler effect.
Whomever made that costume must've watched a lot of 'Fraggles' in his or her childhood, well done!
Boston Dynamics, you’ll never make this thing not unsettling at best. I say lean into it. Full zombie hellhound horror skin next.
Oh, but hellhounds and zombie hounds are also cute! As are those skeleton dogs sold around Halloween. I have a couple. But I also like goth, spooky stuff. And dogs, of course!
@@StephanieDraconia Me: Ok, now make it faster and give it really sharp teeth.
Everyone else: Wtf?!
Fetch me their souls!
Never thought I’d get the chance to see Spot’s fursona. 😵💫
exactly what i was thinking
Came here to make a furry joke. U beat me to it lol
the disney vibe just ain't doing it for me...
It’s actually pretty cute both ways. Cool too. Idk why people are such babies.
The fact that it looks perfectly like a Muppet dog.
Someone at Henson labs 100% worked on this
@@siraaron4462 yeah! I used to like Sesame Street and I was a fan of that show.
This ain't the Chuck E. Cheese Road Show, Boston! That polyester costume makes the Spot we all know resemble a quadruple-amputee animatronic cartoon dog with prosthetic limbs. Spot's *already* plenty cute on his own.
That actually sounds badass af
Amen
Now make a compilation of it scaring the hell out of dogs, because that thing is UNNATURAL 😅
UNCANNY VALLEY'ED!
good idea
5 years from now when the aliens land... "WHAT ARE THOSE CREATURES!" Humans - "Oh Sparkles? Isn't he the greatest?"
Postman: Oh, cute dog.
Robo-dog: /flamethrowers the postman...
I didn't think you could make that dog robot even creepier, but you just did.
Ah sweet, children's hospital camouflage Spot just dropped
"Everyone wants to pet the robot dog... until the neck extends four feet." 😂
I think you're right though this is applicable, but yet could absolutely do a western(ish) dragon instead which would be an anatomically closer fit. 🤔
I say this with 100% respect and admiration. To me this video shows how even when BD is doing 100+ wildly brilliant things, they still have time to fit in a goofy but insanely impressive bit of fun in during down time. Keep it up and thank you.
it’s animated lmao
K: "is it a real one ?"
Deckard: "I don't know ask him."
EVEV
MY
WIGGLY
TAIL
IS
AN
ACT
Next it'll be a cartoon-bear suit for Atlas to wear, and then we're *all* in big trouble. XD
Aye Boo Boo, you wanna grab a... Picknic?
@@siraaron4462Aye aye Boo Boo, Ranger has been a bad bad boy. Now overriding Asimov's laws one and two.
Jamie pull up that clip of the bear robot taking over the world 😅
new atlas is litteraly fnaf endo
Huor huor huor huor huor huor huor huor huor huor
Uncanny valley... But dogs!
nah , he cute
Uncanine valley?
@@IceMetalPunkbravo
Nah this is canny asf
To me this is more uncanny than the AI generated pictures
That last part was like a fever dream 😂 It’s a good boy though. Cute and glittered!
Alternate title: Spot gets a fursuit
... you're welcome.
Yes, we need more robot furries! :3
boston dynamics protogen will be real on january 1st 2014 (2085)
(this does have me thinking that if bd (unfortunate abbreviation when the subject is furry stuff) were to "open-source" their future atlas/atlas successor models then we *could* get protogens? they'd be fully mechanical, but they'd be practically indistinguishable from biological functions like silicone as skin or some groundbreaking artificial fur that doesn't feel weird/clearly fake at all as fur, even though i doubt things like breathing would be functional and would instead be for extra "lifelike" behavior. unsure of how the visor would work, maybe they'd just be electric powered and not have a functional mouth, but that'd be boring because i find the fake-mouth-real-mouth thing as well as robots eating food and actually getting energy quite cool)
@@theman13532 you have put far too much thought into this, absolutely love it.
i doubt boston dynamics would ever open source their designs, but we can dream.
@@theman13532if they were to "open source" any documents in the future, it would only be for the previous gen robots.
@@theman13532 you've really put a lot of thought into this. protogens would be cool.
I don't think boston dynamics will open source their designs but the future holds many secrets.
Prove me wrong boston dynamics, prove me wrong.
Costumes is an interesting idea for Spot. Mascot costumes...
It's literally five nights at Freddy's. No thanks. 😂
@@kairi4640Five nights at Boston Dynamics: Featuring Spot the pyromaniac
If you look at the back it's not actually a spot
I am imagining some extremely epic half time shows with this thing
I'm really glad that the people at Boston Dynamics have fun at work and create cute things like this.
I’m thinking about those workers resumes:
-programming incl. C++, Java, Python, etc.
-full cycle mechatronics implementation incl. machine vision, voice commands, adaptive learning
-robot dog costume design incl. fitment, sparkly stuff, and untangling faux hair from articulation points.
It's like most of the TELESHOP products.
Three years later you have to go through the clutter, and throw out so many unused items.
I like the idea of a robot that will dominate the world under a nice costume for a kid :)
I never thought a pretty sparkly blue doggy could be so... absolutely...
HORRIFYING 😬
How is it horrifying?
@@CommanderCodyChipless creepy as hell.
Wolf in sheeps clothing kind of thing.
@@wizrom3046 you think they're dangerous?
@@wizrom3046I want to see it as creepy but knowing I can literally nudge it with my foot and it would fall over makes basically harmless
imagine one of these dressed as a werewolf taking care of your farm 😂
You know this could be the start of a new age of special effects in movies. Imagine putting a more advanced robot in a Xenomorph costume.
The goddamn whippet trotting in an Alien costume during Alien 3's production hahahaha
This would be awesome to use in theatre productions.
Theme parks too
If Boston Dynamics really wanted to change the world, it could create a robotic guide dog for the blind. A little bit more of a realistic "disguise" would go a long way in making it more acceptable to the public.
What's truly impressive about a dog is that they can be trained to navigate obstacles that we are still working on with robots.
Obviously it will be real looking dog robot 40 years later
A robot dog would be way more expensive than a guide dog and we do not have the technology for a robotic guide dog to work reliably enough yet
Affordability and accessibility are a huge gap to bridge.
A lot of tech companies often do projects like this that might seem frivolous or unnecessary to the average person, but this industry and it's evolution is often like a life-long beta testing process.
If they can secure continuous funding (yes even accounting for how much they get now it can still be a logistics issue in regards to potential longevity, quality assurance, liabilities, and cooperation with other orgs and the govt i.e. contracts and funding) for long enough, and there is steady interest/demand, subsidizing the costs to provide much more serious and life-changing aids for people in need IS possible. We are finally starting to see that with solar panels/solar technology.
But it's often a long long road and certain socio-economic circumstances can heavily delay or derail such things. Human Geography taught me so much in regards to that and while I suck at explaining it in my own words, I understand it in practice.
I’ve been saying for a while that if the Spot robot were more accessible cost-wise it would be a fantastic mobility device for a lot of disabled people. I use a wheelchair and have a service dog, but she is my 3rd service dog in 15 years. It takes 2 years to train a puppy and if you are lucky the dog has 6-8 years of life it can work, but once it hits 8 years old you need to find another successor to start training so it can retire.
A Spot robot could help a disabled person with counter balance tasks, momentum pull, pulling a wheelchair, opening doors for a disabled person (a lot of businesses still don’t have electronic door buttons), bringing medications at scheduled times, along with a bunch of daily living type activities such as loading the dishwasher.
They would also be a nice option for disabled people who would benefit from a dog but are allergic or don’t have the mobility to take care of a live dog/clean up it’s poop/etc.
I can already tell, this is gonna be a smash hit for certain conventions and fandoms.
Man, dogs are freaking out thinking we’re literally trying to replace them😂
Boston dynamics is creating companion's for fallout on earth
Now we need the Boston Dynamics human robot in Freddy Fazbear costume
No we don’t, are you trying to get us all killed by robots? 🤖
It'd be better if they made a separate, lore-loyal Freddy Fazbear animatronic
ROBO PUPPY ROBO PUPPY ROBO PUPPY
I can only imagine of y’all teamed up with the folks over at Henson. Muppet robots that can run around and be controlled by their puppeteers (or learn from them!) would be amazing
I would watch that show
This is how it starts make everything look, friendly, fuzzy, and cute
I’m guessing it’s the Japanese owner’s influence. Lots of “cuteness” here with robots.
Yeah sure next year the Satanists will hijack it and have a dual chainsaw weilding leather face running around.. not that's not a joke trust me that will happen...
My thoughts exactly!
Even before robot pets we already did it since Tamagotchi and other such pocket pets. Now they just evolve into actual robots.
@@MollyHJohns This is a little bit of a step up from tamagotchi.
Boston Dynamics when I get you. When I get you Boston Dynamics. (i love this little guy, i do think he looks more appealing with just. googly eyes tho)
"Timmy, the 'dog' needs a bath. Go peel its skin off so we can throw it in the washing machine."
I both hate and love everything about this comment
Spot is So real for this one
That episode of Fullmetal alchemist... You understand.
Damn bro, vietnam memories
ed....ward
No joke, that episode almost made me quit watching the show.
AAAAAAAAH!!!
Noooo why did you invoke that memory? ;_;
I feel extremely uncomfortable
They made Sprocket into a cyborg!
That's what I saw!!
Oh, please -- they obviously merely skinned Sprocket.
The prequel to Five Nights at Freddy's!
@@tal_the_great and dyed him, too. Kinda like Mokey 2.0.
This was my immediate thought as well, Sprocket got a reskin.
Evan and Katelyn would love this! 🤣
That was my first thought because of their Furby creation 😂
Boston Dynamics is just flexing at this point and I'm all here for it!
Disney is FOAMING at the mouth right now
Adorable.
That adorable dog would be chasing me in 2030s
Imagine giving them electro-shock darts and you are finished.
In 5 years that would hear 10 times better than us and see 10 times futher (just put many cameras with different focal lenzes as our phones) and would run 40 mph.
You can't run, you can't hide😅
Can't wait to have this thing on our side in the Resource Wars of 2045!
2028
I for one think Sparkles is adorable
Real. Everyone says it’s scary but honestly I love this dog too much.
Sparkles is also blepping which I think adds to the adorable factor.
Looks very huggable, if i could fly over i'd hug her lots and lots and lotssssss ❤
imagine that running at you full speed on the street at 2 am
Especially with it's lifeless eyes and unnatural movement. Nupe.
Spot running full speed is not all that fast. It's about 3.5 mph, which is similar to a human's average walking speed. You could outrun it. 😊
@@kmw8775 thats a relief😂
@@kmw8775 but for how long.......
@@fangal12probably untill it stops working.
That's not sparkles, that's a walking nightmare
'What's your intention? Do you want to creep out...'
BD: 'Yes!'
"Whos the beat boy? whos the best boy?!?!"
Dog: *jumps from excitement and crushes my spine*
"Whosssss th...... ☠️"
😂
Now I have to be afraid of being hunted down and killed by Sprocket from Fraggle Rock
And.... The Dawgs are evolving!
yes... there are spot furries now 0_0
I don't care what anyone says but that robot dog Sparkles is cute, he looks like a Muppet.
I understand why it would be unsettling to some considering the uncanny valley but that robot is endearing and well designed.💜
Well now, this is just about the cutest/most horrifying thing I've ever seen.