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Watch a Human Try to Fight Off That Door-Opening Robot Dog

February 21, 2018 /

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Hey, remember that dog-like robot, SpotMini, that Boston Dynamics showed off last week, the one that opened a door for its robot friend? Well, the company just dropped a new video starring the canine contraption. In this week’s episode, a human with a hockey stick does everything in his power to stop the robot from opening the door, including tugging on the machine, which struggles in an … unsettling manner. But the ambush doesn’t work. The dogbot wins and gets through the door anyway.

https://www.wired.com/story/watch-a-human-try-to-fight-off-that-door-opening-robot-dog/