SpotMini from Boston Dynamics - Neatorama

Boston Dynamics’ newest robot is a mechanical pet! Watch it go for a walk, crawl under a table, and extend its neck for a petting. But did you ever see a dog load the dishwasher and straighten up the kitchen?

SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini 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. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini performs some tasks autonomously, but often uses a human for high-level guidance. For more information about SpotMini visit our website at www.BostonDynamics.com

SpotMini can trip and fall, but they had to put out a banana peel to demonstrate it. -via Geeks Are Sexy

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In a consensus among friends 50% of us hate robots, especially robots with animalistic qualities. But not me, I love big dog. They are like mama and baby. But the head is an opportunity for horror if you replace it with a bear skull lol

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Very cool. It would be funto have one, but it will never replace a real dog or cat.

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An incubator for butterfly eggs and chrysalis... On the shelf you may store the chrysalis, while the butterflies may hatch inside the glass cabinet. The glass cabinet may protect the butterflies from being disturbed or eaten by birds or laboratoy cats...

In the bowel on the left buterfly food may be stored to be able to feed the newly hatched butterflies with honey or nectar.

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This is cat liquor cabinet. Back before the pet prohibition amendment, you could drink alongside your pets. Small bottles of rum and scotch as well as mixers could be stored on the shelves with the "top shelf" stuff locked up in the right. The built in mixing/drinking bowl was an optional accessory to these cabinets.

Hello Kaiju M, Navy

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It's a pachinko machine designed by Rube Goldberg.
The Love Bug, 2x, Charcoal

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Obviously, it's a dust magnet.
The Love Bug, 2x, Charcoal

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Victorian squirrel washer! Dry, fluff, fold and store!

PiJoe XL

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Donkey Kong c.1860. New Marios were kept in the drawer; dead Marios in the bowl.

Waiting for Alice s black

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Home smoking pipe storage and refill station. English gents would hang the hat on the bamboo, tap pipe ashes into the bowl, attractively display the pipe on the rack, and refill from the humidor on the way to the autobus the next morning.

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Action Figure in the Cupboard Reeducation Camp. Select rebellious action figure or minifig from the display rack, place or hang inside the cabinet, lock door, wait for ensoulment. The figure can view reeducation videos or literature through the windows while inspirational recordings play through the four holed speaker. Threaten figures with a dip in the bowl of acetone if resistant. Drawer contains education materials and logbook.

Element of Surprise, XL

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This is a spatial sock retrieval device, for reclaiming your favorite stockings that were sent into oblivion by a washer. Simply put the required magical components (They're a secret!) into the bowl and crank the handle a few times. Your missing socks will appear hanging on the rack in a puff of rainbow-colored smoke that smells like bacon.

Look Out, Schroedinger's Cat! Its a Trap! Black, M

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Meth lab from the new Victorian Breaking Bad prequel.

COEXIST XL

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Rube Goldberg Kibble Dispenser. Entertain & feed your animal at the same time.
The Love Bug, 2x, Charcoal

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Howard Hughes, one of the world's richest (and most inventive) hypochondriacs, was famous for building "The Spruce Goose" a huge wooden seaplane. He simply loved wood! Hughes did not want his vast array of (pretty much useless) meds touched by any non-organic matter, so it was a no-brainer that he ordered his carpenters to construct this gravity fed pill dispenser, tonic mixer and ointment distributor out of wood.

"I aim to misbehave" black ladies large or Men's medium

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An antique hotel honor bar. Easily accessible area presenting goodies to tempt the younglings and a secure area for adult beverages.

"That's No Moon", Medium, black

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