A robot dog now herds sheep in New Zealand
Spot, Boston Dynamics’ famous four-legged robot, has a new job: herding sheep. The robotics company announced a partnership with Rocos, a New Zealand company focused on robot operation software.
Rocos said that its software will make Spot more useful on remote missions, and make the data collected by Spot more useful and accessible for remote teams.
Spot has already been used and customized for all kind of purposes around the world. In Singapore, the robot dogs patrolled a popular park, playing messages encouraging social distancing, and estimating how many people were in the area. In a Boston hospital, Spot robots equipped with iPads and two-way radios were used by medical staff to evaluate possible COVID-19 patients. They’ve even been used by US police.
Source: businessinsider.co.za
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