Fido meets Spot: A First Encounter of the Canine Kind

Submitted by tatwood on Sun, 01/24/2021 - 12:13

In an advance release from the next edition of the UNMANNED SYSTEMS NEWS (USN), a video posted by Steve Jurvetson shows Spot, a Boston Dynamics robot dog, playing with Fido, a terrier reportedly belonging to Android co-founder Andy Rubin. In this humorous encounter, a cute, inquisitive dog exhibiting canine behavior that evolved over millennia interacts with a robot quadruped that can operate autonomously or under remote control.

Thanks to CDR David Place (USN/Ret), davidplace47[at]gmail[dot]com, and Robin E. Alexander, President ATC, alexander technical[at]gmail[dot]com, for their assistance with this report, which is a pre-release update to their next edition of the UNMANNED SYSTEMS NEWS (USN). Video courtesy of the Sputnik YouTube channel.
David distributes the USN, a free, comprehensive newsletter in PDF format every week or two, as well as serial news flashes, from which this NREF news update was sourced. To be included in his distribution, simply send David a subscribe request to davidplace47[at]gmail[dot]com.