Culture Google's robot dog meets a real dog and gets trash-talked Technically Incorrect: A tiny terrier refuses to be intimidated by the huge mass of metal. It shows the machine who's boss.

Maybe because those other dogs bark at it, try to herd it, and in general make its robotic life miserable. A real life dog (named Cosmo, and owned by Android co-founder Andy Rubin) sees Spot, then ...

The robot dog is equipped with cameras that detect weapons and people with AI analytics and a LiDAR system that creates 3D maps of the environment.

Boston Dynamics' engineers push Spot to new limits, testing daring backflips to make the robot dog tougher and smarter.

Also, aside from the cuteness factor, watching a dog play with a robot is far more enjoyable than watching a bunch of humans abuse a robot. The video is embedded below.

The team is interested in using their A.I. to create a realistic robot dog. This might have applications in training robots to carry out tasks like route planning with greater efficiency.

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A recently published video shows Spot, the robotic dog developed by Google-owned Boston Dynamics, playing with a real dog.

Stevens was inspired to make a realistic robotic lab when his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and had her dog taken away.