Canines mind : Apparently we humans are n’t the only ones who need to worry about our inevitable robot overlords replacing us .
This hebdomad , New Zealand software business firm Rocos announced a partnership with Boston Dynamics to give the latter ’s famous robotic hotdog / four - legged nightmare automaton a young gig : herding sheep .
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Photo: Rocos - Robot Operations Platform (YouTube)
Rocos specializes in develop software for distant robot cognitive process and said its cloud platform will enable Spot — a line of robot nimble enough to cover rough terrain while strong enough to pulla truck like a frank sled(or , occasionally , Adam Savage)—to offset stress from worker famine because of the coronavirus outbreak and avail make food production in the country more efficient .
“ fit out with payloads like heat , LIDAR , gas and high resolving camera sensing element , Spot pilot rugged environments to capture data in existent time , ” the company said in a recentblog Wiley Post . “ In agriculture , Farmer can get at information such as more precise and up - to - date yield idea . This supply access to a new category of automation , and a safe , more efficient business . ”
Inaccompanying footage , which you may check out below , smear trots about grassy hilltops and shepherds a flock of sheep with nary a human or whelp in sight — the very picture of some cyperpunk bucolic fancy .
( Weirdly , at one point in the video Spot seems to be lounging on the ground , move its machinelike limbs around in a gay plot of land as if stretching its tired muscularity after a unvoiced day ’s piece of work . Or perhaps I ’m just project . In all likeliness , it believably just fell over , and Rocos wanted to demonstrate that a stumble ca n’t stop this all - terrain robomutt . )
As fun as the video is as a proof of construct , Rocos and Boston Dynamics seem pitch toward supplement rather than fully supplant traditional sheepdogs . Though Spot ’s not without its unique advantage : during other testing , Rocos say the Boston Dynamics squad was able to navigate previously unmapped terrain in New Zealand all from the quilt of their U.S. office . It ’s the in vogue example of howagritech ’s already arise influencehas been fastracked amid breed from the nearly unparalleled covid-19 crisis .
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“ The age of autonomous robots is upon us , ” said Rocos CEO David Inggs in the company ’s web log post . “ Our customers are augmenting their human hands to automate physical processes that are often dull , foul , or dangerous . ”
Boston Dynamics has likewise beenbranching out into telemedicinein recent calendar month because of the outbreak , deploying Spot in local infirmary to see if it can work a part in minify health proletarian ’ risk of exposure . Their robodog was made available for purchaselast yearin case you ’ve got a few thousand dollars to burn and a flock of sheep that needs a herdin ’ .
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