CyberDog from Xiaomi

Once you see the face...you'll never unsee it.......but if Xiaomi is making it, pretty soon there will be tons on AliExpress for $198 dollars that might not explode or burst into a lithium-ion battery fire at the first sign of rain..and when those drop, well, I'm buying 3.

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Of course, this thing isn’t cheap, and those folks willing to get involved will need to shell out 9,999 yuan or around $1,540 to get one of these for themselves.
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I recognize that if they actually sold these to general public it would probably be more expensive, but this is still a strange statement to me. $1540 seems STUPID cheap for something like this.

On the other hand, maybe there hasn't been much R&D on it yet? Are there demos of it navigating terrain and such like the boston dynamics bots? Perhaps they're waiting for the open source community to do all of the software work.
 
serpretetsky said:
I recognize that if they actually sold these to general public it would probably be more expensive, but this is still a strange statement to me. $1540 seems STUPID cheap for something like this.

On the other hand, maybe there hasn't been much R&D on it yet? Are there demos of it navigating terrain and such like the boston dynamics bots? Perhaps they're waiting for the open source community to do all of the software work.
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I have yet to see the Boston Dynamics botdog doing anything but being remotely controlled, same as I do with my $30 dollar Drone or $19 dollar Radio Shack RC car from 1984...........dancing is cool but I've yet to see a freestyle :) Its all coded and coordinated, guessing if those bots were 2" off in placement during those dance routines they'd be simulating a mosh pit instead.......................I get the impression from what i've seen of real-world activities that even the boston dynamics machines in terms of "AI" are more like self-navigating (eventually, after much remote-control training) motion detectors and roving cameras than the kind of AI behavior that is alluded to when we see them walking around. Like the "walking around and avoiding obstacles on their pre-programmed path" are about what they are capable of now. Maybe the military has something slightly better :D

..at least right now...we know that changes in the future, but guessing its a more distant future.
 
HeadRusch said:
I have yet to see the Boston Dynamics botdog doing anything but being remotely controlled, same as I do with my $30 dollar Drone or $19 dollar Radio Shack RC car from 1984...........dancing is cool but I've yet to see a freestyle :) Its all coded and coordinated, guessing if those bots were 2" off in placement during those dance routines they'd be simulating a mosh pit instead.
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Definitely a lot more complex than an RC car. But I mean, it's definitely not some fully autonomous robot straight out of the box if that's what you mean.



It's also not perfect:



But so far all I saw cyberdog do was stand on a stage. Do we have more?
 
Yeah exactly that, its remote controlled...yes its smart enough to go "Wait, I can't put my feet there so stop pushing up on the joystick" and that is a huge accomplishment, and they have the ability to learn routes and react, to a point (and yes that level of autonomy is truly impressive, I'm a big fan of those BD yearly update videos just to see how those things move under their own power and how far they've come), to obstacles and changes put along that route, but the way they often *portray* these things its like you debox them and they start roaming your town looking for Sarah Connor....... :p

Not quite yet.
 
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