{"id":52224,"date":"2017-11-14T05:49:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T05:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=52224"},"modified":"2017-11-14T05:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T05:49:31","slug":"meet-boston-dynamics-streamlined-spotmini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/innovation\/meet-boston-dynamics-streamlined-spotmini.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet Boston Dynamics&#8217; streamlined SpotMini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Meet Boston Dynamics\u2019 streamlined SpotMini<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Meet Boston Dynamics\u2019 streamlined SpotMini:- Boston Dynamics hasn\u2019t talked much since it changed hands from Google\u2019s ailing robotics wing to the deep pockets of SoftBank, but the cutting-edge robotics firm happily gave the world a sneak peek of what it\u2019s been working on in the meantime. The company posted a 24-second teaser trailer showcasing a sleek new version of its latest offering, the electric-powered SpotMini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">We\u2019ve reached out to the company for more information on the project, but BD always plays things pretty close to the vest. It also knows how to ride a good viral video for all it\u2019s worth. Meantime, what we\u2019ve got to work with here is a really quick video of the updated robot doing a familiar bit of dressage across a newly mowed lawn, quickly staring down the camera and then sauntering off behind a wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">From that cursory glance, the underlying hardware appears mostly the same from the earlier iteration of the company\u2019s first all-electric quadrupedal bot. The exterior, however, has been given a pretty dramatic makeover \u2014 making the new SpotMini far and away the most polished product out of the company yet. That could be keeping in line with SoftBank\u2019s goal of commercializing its robotics, along the lines of what it\u2019s done with Pepper \u2014 though, as adorable as the new Spot is, it\u2019s probably not going to be greeting Wal-Mart shoppers anytime soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The new \u2018bot features a bumble bee-colored paint job with a plastic outer coating that make it look a bit like it\u2019s wearing Uma Thurman\u2019s Kill Bill jumpsuit. Spot\u2019s quick glance at the camera also reveals what appear to be a pair of Kinect-style 3D cameras sitting in for its eyes. The company recently posted a listing for a \u201cSenior Perception Software Engineer\u201d with experience in stereo cameras and LIDAR, which could go a ways toward highlighting more autonomous versions of its robots moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The caption on the video isn\u2019t much help either, unfortunately, simply asking viewers to \u201cstay tuned.\u201d So, stay tuned, I guess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/11\/13\/meet-boston-dynamics-streamlined-spotmini\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/innovation\/meet-boston-dynamics-streamlined-spotmini.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Boston Dynamics\u2019 streamlined SpotMini Meet Boston Dynamics\u2019 streamlined SpotMini:- Boston Dynamics hasn\u2019t talked much since it changed hands from Google\u2019s ailing robotics wing to the deep pockets of SoftBank, but the cutting-edge robotics firm happily gave the world a sneak peek of what it\u2019s been working on in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":52239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975],"tags":[100232,100234,100231,100230,100233],"class_list":["post-52224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","tag-boston-dynamics-streamlined","tag-cutting-edge-robotics-firm","tag-dynamics-streamlined-spotmini","tag-electric-powered-spotmini","tag-googles-ailing-robotics-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}