{"id":96607,"date":"2019-09-24T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/boston-dynamics-spot-hands-on-new-dog-new-tricks"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:23:35","slug":"boston-dynamics-spot-hands-on-new-dog-new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/boston-dynamics-spot-hands-on-new-dog-new-tricks","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics Spot hands-on: new dog, new tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boston Dynamics Spot hands-on: new dog, new tricks\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bmNaLtC6vkU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Boston Dynamics is putting Spot to work. The company has announced a new leasing program for its Spot robot (formerly SpotMini), which is aimed at construction, entertainment, and other automation-friendly industries. But is the world ready for this semi-autonomous quadruped?<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/G5RXGs\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/G5RXGs<\/a><br \/> Like The Verge on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/2P1aGc\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/2P1aGc<\/a><br \/> Follow on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/XTWX61\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/XTWX61<\/a><br \/> Follow on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/7ZeLvX\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/7ZeLvX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why\u2019d You Push That Button Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/1295289748\">https:\/\/pod.link\/1295289748<\/a><br \/> The Vergecast Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/430333725\">https:\/\/pod.link\/430333725<\/a><br \/> More about our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcasts\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Community guidelines: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2D0hlAv\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2D0hlAv<\/a><br \/> Wallpapers from The Verge: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2xQXYJr\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2xQXYJr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics is putting Spot to work. The company has announced a new leasing program for its Spot robot (formerly SpotMini), which is aimed at construction, entertainment, and other automation-friendly industries. But is the world ready for this semi-autonomous quadruped? Subscribe: http:\/\/goo.gl\/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https:\/\/goo.gl\/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https:\/\/goo.gl\/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96607","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}