Robots made famous on YouTube could be headed to circus - now in mass production
Robots made famous on
YouTube could be headed to circus
Updated 4:56 pm
CDT, Thursday, September 26, 2019
BOSTON (AP) — Animal-like robots that started out as a
military-funded research project might be shipped off to the circus instead of
the battlefield.
Cirque du Soleil says it's in talks with robot maker Boston Dynamics
about using the four-legged Spot robot in its live shows.
The agile robots walk, climb stairs and open doors. They have
become famous on YouTube but haven't been applied commercially since the
company was founded in 1992.
That's changing this fall. The Waltham, Massachusetts, robotics
firm revealed in a YouTube post this week that Spot is now in mass production
and shipping to select customers for such uses as monitoring construction sites
or inspecting energy facilities.
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