{"id":22957,"date":"2016-03-01T03:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T11:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/watch-googles-robot-spot-play-with-andy-rubins-real-dog"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:47:02","slug":"watch-googles-robot-spot-play-with-andy-rubins-real-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/watch-googles-robot-spot-play-with-andy-rubins-real-dog","title":{"rendered":"Watch Google\u2019s robot \u2018Spot\u2019 play with Andy Rubin\u2019s real dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7nhygaGOmo?wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The US military recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/12\/29\/marines-send-its-alphadog-robot-to-the-farm\/\">decided<\/a> that Google\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/07\/14\/alphadog-on-the-training-field\/\">Alpha Dog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/21\/spot-robot-dog-marine-training\/\">Spot<\/a> robots weren\u2019t ready for active duty, leaving the four legged robots with nothing to do. In the meantime, Google is doing with its battery-powered Spot robot what we probably would \u2014 using it as a dog toy. The company recently unleashed it on Alex, the terrier that reportedly belongs to Android co-founder and Playground Global boss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/12\/02\/andy-rubin-smartphone-startup-rumor\/\">Andy Rubin<\/a>. The adorable result is that Alex, clearly the boss of this arrangement, sees the hapless robot as an existential threat that must be barked at and harangued (no butt-sniffing, luckily).<\/p>\n<p>The model is reportedly the only one that\u2019s not in military hands, and there\u2019s no word on what Google\u2019s Boston Dynamics plans to do with it now. The military thought Spot could be a potential ground reconnaissance asset, but \u201cthe problem is, Spot in its current configuration doesn\u2019t have the autonomy to do that,\u201d says James Peneiro, the Ground Combat head of the Warfighting Lab. It would be shortsighted, of course, to think the robots need to be put to work right away. A lot of the self-balancing tech in Spot (and its ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/02\/10\/boston-dynamics-spot-kick-the-dog\/\">take a kick<\/a>) can already be found in the next-generation humanoid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/02\/23\/boston-dynamics-presents-the-next-generation-atlas-robot\/\">Atlas Robot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/01\/watch-googles-robot-spot-play-with-andy-rubins-real-dog\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/01\/watch-googles-robot-spot-...-real-dog\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military recently decided that Google\u2019s Alpha Dog and Spot robots weren\u2019t ready for active duty, leaving the four legged robots with nothing to do. In the meantime, Google is doing with its battery-powered Spot robot what we probably would \u2014 using it as a dog toy. The company recently unleashed it on Alex, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62603,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions\/62603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}