See Spot Run — Dog vs. Robot

14 responses to “See Spot Run — Dog vs. Robot”

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   jurvetson

   Feb 29, 2016 at 1:50 am

   With another electric vehicle… Cosmo (the dog) is quite special when it comes to Android. Other Playground dogs:

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   jurvetson

   Mar 1, 2016 at 12:35 am

   Heh… The uncanine valley! spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/two-…

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   devivre1

   Mar 1, 2016 at 2:47 pm

   Hey Steve! I’m a producer at Discovery Canada – would love to feature the video on the show today. Email me at Vanessa.Salas@bellmedia.ca and let me know what you think.

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   devivre1

   Mar 1, 2016 at 2:51 pm

   Just to clarify – the video of dog and Spot!

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   amjad_jasmine

   Mar 1, 2016 at 9:29 pm

   Hey I’m a producer at NowThis and these photos and the video on your youtube page is amazing. I would love to make a video about it for NowThis. I will give you full credit for the footage! Please email me at jasmine@nowthismedia.com thanks!

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   fmendoza

   Mar 2, 2016 at 3:25 am

   On Cnet: Google’s robot dog meets a real dog and gets trash-talked

   http://www.cnet.com/news/google-robot-dog-military-boston-dynamics/

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   jgury

   Mar 2, 2016 at 2:02 pm

   Terminator was accurate. http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/29/11137324/dogs-vs-robots-boston...

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   jurvetson

   Mar 2, 2016 at 6:13 pm

   All part of the Google Master Plan: Robots –> Skynet –> Terminator –> Google Security –> User Happiness.

   They had it all figured out in 2005

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   jurvetson

   Mar 2, 2016 at 6:18 pm

   And the video got 1M views on my birthday! With news pickup around the world… and the Reddit remix machine

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    Broken Toy Shop

    Mar 4, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    That is pretty awesome. That pup looks less than impressed with our new robot overlords.

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    jurvetson

    Mar 7, 2016 at 6:12 pm

    And there are well over 5 million views now, across my post, the AP, BBC, Fox, CBS and NBC. Wow. We acclimate to these technologies, but they are magic to most on first encounter. Several people commented on YouTube that they think the video will be “historic”

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    jurvetson

    Mar 18, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    and today’s news: Google is looking to sell Boston Dynamics…. And Spot has a cameo in the new Silicon Valley teaser.

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    chase20

    Sep 3, 2018 at 3:11 pm

    Very interesting. Great photostream.

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    jurvetson

    Oct 12, 2018 at 8:45 pm

    wow…. the advances here remind me of those time lapse video snippets of video games from the 1970s to today…. Just released, parkour on foot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjKoEva5bg

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