{"id":169513,"date":"2016-06-24T08:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T06:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=169513"},"modified":"2016-06-24T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T07:01:05","slug":"spotmini-a-cool-new-robot-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/169513-spotmini-a-cool-new-robot-dog.html","title":{"rendered":"SpotMini &#8211; a cool new robot dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics has introduced SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot which weighs 25kg.<\/p>\n<p>SpotMini is an all-electric robot without hydraulics, and can run for about 90 minutes on a charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpotMini is one of the quietest robots we have ever built. It has a variety of sensors, including depth cameras, a solid state gyro (IMU), and proprioception sensors in the limbs,\u201d said Boston Dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini performs some tasks autonomously, but often uses a human for high-level guidance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tf7IEVTDjng\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on robots<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/162854-robot-buses-a-solution-to-the-worlds-traffic-problems-elon-musk.html\"><strong>Robot buses a solution to the world\u2019s traffic problems: Elon Musk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/160042-why-you-can-replace-politicians-with-robots.html\">Why you can replace politicians with robots<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/159023-dominos-to-use-robots-to-deliver-pizza.html\">Domino\u2019s to use robots to deliver pizza<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics has introduced SpotMini, a dog-like robot that can run for 90 minutes on a single charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,9531,37795],"class_list":["post-169513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-boston-dynamics","tag-spotmini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169539,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169513\/revisions\/169539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}