Take your robotic army out to the ball game.
Video screenshot by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET
A video shared Tuesday showed Boston Dynamics well known robotic canine, Spot, matched with its semi-humanoid sibling, Pepper, cheering at a Japanese baseball video game. And not just one Spot, and one Pepper– there was a little army of the robotic pets and humanoids, using hats, waving flags, and in the case of the Spot robots, uh, wagging their behinds.
Boston Dynamics is owned by Japans Softbank, and the bots were cheering for the business group, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, at a video game versus the Rakuten Eagles, according to SoftBank. Because there are no human viewers due to the coronavirus pandemic, the robots perk up the otherwise-empty stands.
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The robotics will carry out at video games throughout the month of July. And though they might not win any dance competitors, dont get judgy, theyre working on enhancing.
“I am practicing and practicing every day,” SoftBank estimates Pepper as saying.
If you desire your own Spot, theyre just $74,500 (about ₤ 59,341 AU$ 107,116), but are offered only to businesses, not for individual homes.
