Robot Dogs

[lpetrich]

 AIBO is the best-known of these. Sony had made them from 1998 to 2005, and its fans greatly missed it going out of production. But the AIBO is now back, and I played with Sony’s new Aibo robot dog, and I miss it already - The Verge shows some video of the new AIBO in action.

Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Will Be Available Next Year | WIRED Boston Dynamics is well-known for its demos of walking robots. The company will be making a very limited run of its SpotMini robot dog -- 100 of them.

Boston Dynamics has long been research-focused, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been thinking about what consumers want out of SpotMini. For one, buyers will be able to mount their own hardware on SpotMini’s back, Raibert said. Boston Dynamics is also working on its own add-on packages. “For instance, we have a surveillance package where we have special cameras that can mount on the back,” he said. And that famous arm that helped the robot open the door for its friend? That’s an extra option that’ll be removable.