The Truth About Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog

[@stevencrawford6503]

A robot dog saying "Follow me gentlemen" was peak comedy

[@ehjhey7]

Honestly one of the best parts 😂

[@circleinfo]

Was that a reference?

[@BikeIsLife4EverGG]

So we already have the technology to have a humanoid robot with a diildo to satisfy women and man, we already have all the technologies in hand

[@crgo1008]

I now need a fancy butler robodog

[@dliu115]

Still laughing about it

[@stevenbastian3882]

9:55 Saying "we believe in anti-weaponization" for the robots is like Google saying "Don't Be Evil" (its original motto). We always start out with such noble intent.

[@Anton-tf9iw]

Naive to the power of 3

[@dawnkeyy]

"Here's a super advanced tank with a bunch of sensors and a mounting point for a turret... pweaseeee 🥺 don't put a turret on it mkay?"

[@Tagraff]

All it ends with is the robot with the back-attachment application. Much like the production of a jeep -- just when the military buys in -- they'll freely attach the weaponization to the jeep. So, it doesn't really matter, by the end of the day, if the tools prove usefulness -- any actors (good or bad) will make use of it.

[@haroldb1856]

Companies who pledge not to sell robots to certain big spending customers will lose business opportunities to less idealistic competitors.

[@dcterr1]

I think most new technologies in-and-of themselves are neither good nor evil - it's how we use them!

[@johnnyharris]

I’ve been waiting for this vid for nearly a decade.

[@Just-Some-Helium]

Eggo’s are a good cereal brand, You can’t change my mind.

[@Mo_2077]

Fancy seeing you here

[@FalconEcho]

Ratio

[@isaacodegard740]

Johnny, you're probably stoked for the new fake A.I. moon landing come 2026. Aren't you?

[@redsharktooth22]

Almost as long as I've been waiting for your LDS video pt. 2 🙂

[@aogasd]

"In Pompeii, Spot is inspecting graver robber tunnels for police" made it sound like the robbers bought a Spot to make sure their tunnels were safe 😂😂😂

[@silverbaker2194]

Looked like they were using a Leica BLK 360 for scanning. Cool to see both pieces of tech in the field.

[@itsfonk]

Cleo-hime arriving color matched with Spot, and instinctively petting it and cheering it on with a higher-pitched pet voice, really elevates her story beyond the simple reporting on other channels (:

[@jakethomas6123]

Plus to the color match!

[@raoultesla2292]

thank you AI bot

[@CaneBTC]

Yeah chicks right.. hehe

[@grm65]

Spooky!

[@123argonaut]

:)

[@DougvonSohsten]

LOVE... YOUR... VIDEOS... The level of respect for the clarity of information and showing the viewers all sides of a subject (while keeping it as optimistic or at leats questioning as possible) is INSANE. All I can say is: Never stop making content and we need more Cleos in this world.

[@sebastianorye2702]

I often hear complaints about how news is more and more miserable by the day, especially from older generations. We need more news like this.

[@nabormendonca5742]

That’s an advertisement, not a regular tech video. A disclaimer in the very beginning would be warranted and more respectful to her audience.

[@nabormendonca5742]

That’s an advertisement, not a regular tech video. A disclaimer in the very beginning would be warranted and more respectful to her audience.

[@nabormendonca5742]

That’s an advertisement, not a regular tech video. A disclaimer in the very beginning would be warranted and more respectful to her audience.

[@nabormendonca5742]

That’s an advertisement, not a regular tech video. A disclaimer in the very beginning would be warranted and more respectful to her audience.

[@shakesnbake]

11:34 Spot's thinking - "i'll remember this lack of belly rubs in the robot uprising" 🤣

[@eclectickarthik]

🤣

[@_Vark_]

He was just holding the parcel lmao

[@dliu115]

Robot uprising? No rather Labrador uprisings

[@DulacLancelot]

Yeah, I definitely saw Spot looking on thinking, "Why didn't *I* get a lie-down mission?? 😢"

[@Terra_Lopez]

Ha ha, well said! Yeah, it's body language makes it easy to think it's super jealous. 😊

[@DromaticGnome]

Cleo color coordinating her outfit with Spot is exactly why I love her so much 🙂

[@fuzzstergoat]

ohhh this is the robot that michael reeves taught to pee beer

[@joe-ni3zc]

The one and only

[@Anime_weeb06]

Thinking about it makes me laugh

[@firebeardlongfellow5295]

Robo-cop by day. Beer pisser by night.

[@johnkeefer8760]

“Spot is a platform for our customers to develop their own payloads for”. Michael is a developer ahead of the curve

[@Brnozrkn]

When she said developing on spot I kinda expected a sniplet of his video lmao.

[@jotaele.44]

I love it when Cleo has such a “childlike curiosity & energy” on whatever topic she’s talking about; she seems like such a fun & nice person to be friends with, and probably also an amazing conversationalist. Keep doing your thing Cleo! Much love from PR 🇵🇷

[@serroche]

5:26 I was really expecting him to shake all that dirt 😂

[@MILELONGJOINT]

That could be cool detail :D

[@azhwanhaghiri6336]

Let's maybe not call it a "him".

[@BloxdFun-jf2yo]

@@azhwanhaghiri6336good point, maybe don’t get targeted by robot uprising

[@kotonohakatsura6930]

As a wheelchair User i like to imagine to put a chair on this device in order to move myself around instead of using wheels. :) Please like in order to push the comment❤.

[@thesaturdaydude]

Sounds cool

[@GabeCoolwater]

Definitely! That's really sweet. 😊

[@piteshmistry9957]

Whenever a new video is out from Cleo, you always know its gonna be a good one! Also the matching colours is hilarious :)

[@clockwise7391]

its her and the dog twining in black and yellow for me 😂 Cleo I love your channel. always refreshingly optimistic and curious.

[@mattmoore6180]

We have one of these robot dogs at one of the facilities here at GRC. It's used to check on machinery that is too loud for humans to check on while it's running, even with hearing protection. The robot dog can even go up and down stairs lol

[@LetsGetIntoItMedia]

My robot human keeps asking for a pet obot dog, but I just know all the care (changing the oil, ordering replacement parts, making messes for it to clean up) will all fall on me. Maybe when my human robot is a little older...

[@ShepardDrake]

The "Fancy Butler" Spot at the end where he talks is totally like something out of Portal 😂

[@idlevalley]

I like that you matched your outfit to the robot. It shows how genuinely passionate you are in a subtle way.

[@DavidMulderOne]

The thing to realize is that for *most* inspections tasks it's far cheaper to mount 50 cameras all over the building that will do non-stop monitoring, rather than have 1 super fancy camera walking around, *but* some of my favourite examples where it actually makes sense to use these robots is to handle cases you didn't plan for as a relatively capable 'remote presence' platform. I think this is how a bunch of swiss or austrian hydroelectric plants were planning/thinking of using them. Most of them don't have a constant human presence, and they do have a bunch of monitoring installed although the installations themselves are old and have a lot of old equipment, so when something is wrong a human has to drive there to check it out (with some of them being fairly remote). The idea was that having something like spot in each of those could allow better triaging.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

How will cameras tell you if there is a gas leak? How will fixed cameras carry out detailed close up inspections of operating machinery? How will a bunch of fixed camaras locate the exact site of a radiation leak? Cameras are for general surveillance, not for inspections.

[@sciencecompliance235]

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Optical cameras may not be able to detect a gas leak, but other static sensors can without needing a robot dog.

[@hasrataulakh]

it's pretty useless as drones can do all those tasks but better.... Your robot can walk over over gravel and navigate through rocks, good....but drones can just FLY over anything.

[@DavidMulderOne]

@@hasrataulakh drones are great indeed as long as you don't need to touch anything (which often indeed is the case). And to be fair, I haven't seen any indoor drone based remote presence solutions, but at the same time drones have gotten significantly better are navigating tight spaces compared to a couple of years ago... so I do think there is potential there.

[@Go2hell-fulgybitch]

​@@sciencecompliance235wrong

[@trigrrug]

I think you're the first person I've heard say "figuratively" instead of "literally" in 10 years. It almost brings a tear to my eye.

[@simonsan5271]

You can't use these 2 words interchangeably. They have opposite meanings.

[@Nyx_2142]

The only thing that should be bringing a tear to your eye is your own illiteracy. "Figuratively" and "literally" literally have different definitions and uses, and are never used interchangeably. But you look like the type to share whiny boomer memes on Facebook so I guess it fits that you'd whine about language evolving/changing (while being incorrect about what to whine about in the first place).

[@simoncarr5437]

@@simonsan5271 Yeah, that's the point trigrrug is making. You literally missed the point, like a Turkey voting for Christmas, metaphorically speaking.

[@vazywazzy]

You can totally use literal nested within a figurative sentence. It's very confusing, i know, but you don't always announce that a sentence is figurative. Like "you gave me a heart attack" isn't usually literal, but you wouldn't know it from just the sentence. You'd figure it out through context.

[@trigrrug]

@@vazywazzy this is such a weird comment out of left field. Who are you talking to?

[@nutria_official]

Michael Reeves making the "piss bot", was the best add on to Spot lmao

[@lucrativelepton]

10:37 its totally NOT up to all of us. It'll be up to a few execs who will put profit over people like everything else

[@simoncarr5437]

I think the "US" in this instance refers to all the robotic companies. However, you are right, someone will do it!

[@MikeNovelli]

Matching yellow and black fits 🔥

[@MikeNovelli]

Maybe don't thumbs up when doggo falls.... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@MikeNovelli]

No "general purpose" robots should be weaponized. But they did not pledge that specialized robots should not be weaponized. They're just playing semantic games.

[@a1fiedrl]

Cleo has no idea how I always rewind the Huge, if true intro because its so satisfying to watch

[@SK-nf9yk]

This robot dog reminds of that Black mirror episode lol

[@TheXRaider64]

four-legged multipurpose industrial robot: *exists* human: pet the doggo

[@ummthatguy.]

Oh how I've missed Huge *if true... very happy to have this back on my screen. Happy New Year Cleo! Thanks for producing the show and hope for continued success.

[@Kerleem]

So cool! I’m excited to see the possibilities! Also my dog growled at the TV while watching this so its movements definitely look realistic to an actual dog!

[@adelacelle]

"It's up to all of us to decide together" ... hahahaha ! Amazing sense of humour 😂

[@Toutvids]

exactly, as if our government won't make the decisions for us. We are no longer represented.

[@oldauntzibby4395]

Exactly. About as funny as saying they will not be weaponized.

[@TheBswan]

That anti-weaponization stance will go out the door when Uncle Sam offers billion dollar contracts

[@coffeegonewrong]

I dunno, DARPA paid for most of their research already. I expect the public stance is so Uncle Sam gets the hint and stops trying.

[@user-kj7nw4zg1y]

They are aimed more at safety and commercial applications. They'll be able to stand firm on that stance because if the government wanted to find a way to weaponize something like this then they'll be able to figure it out on their own if they thought it was necessary...

[@cogoid]

Boston Dynamics is an American company owned by South Korean Hyundai. Prior to being sold to Hyundai, they belonged to Japanese SoftBank, and before that to Google. It was specifically at Google's insistence that Boston Dynamics got out of military-related research and development. It is hard to see them going back. Although there are all sorts of restrictions on how much Korea can influence the operation of the company, Boston Dynamics is still foreign-owned.

[@Nyx_2142]

@@coffeegonewrong Uncle Sam already has several robotics contractors that are on par or quickly catching up to Boston Dynamics. Why would they "get the hint and stop trying" when they already have what they want (and can get from other sources with no hassle)? Lol. I love when ignorant people confidently take stances on subjects they clearly know nothing about.

[@coffeegonewrong]

@@Nyx_2142 If the US military has other contractors building it for them instead…. Then wouldn’t that mean no one is asking Boston Dynamics to make killer versions? Possibly that they “Gave up and stopped trying” to convince them to take money to breach their ethics? You say I don’t understand what I’m talking about while proving my point.

[@FerociousPancake888]

I really like the use cases with factories, mines, and nuclear plants as it really seems those use cases are heavily based in the idea of robots helping humans. However, the military and police use cases for this is appalling and pretty terrifying as those are based in the idea of suppressing humans. The pack mule idea and a more bomb-sniffing variant I think is totally fine, but that in my opinion is an extremely slippery slope and will lead to more human suppressing variants. Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about that slippery slope. Boston Dynamics might be on board with the right ideals, but the military, police, and greedy corporations who will have access to similar technology very soon will NOT carry those same ideals.

[@28russ]

Fortunately "Spot" hasn't learnt to deal with slippery slopes.....yet lol. But yeah, the CCP was already using them to patrol the streets during covid lockdown to make sure there were no sick and starving people on the streets......Who'd escaped from the apartments they were welded into to look for food rather than starve to death "for the good of the community". I don't think they were weaponised just fitted with a loud speaker telling people to stay inside. But they were still being used in somewhat of an evil capacity. 🤷‍♂😕

[@johnk6598]

Since when did the perception of police go from protecting and serving to suppressing? How is surveilling a holed-up murderer a suppression mission? You would deny our military better tools for protecting and defending our country because you think it’s a bad ideal? That’s a pretty misguided understanding of their purpose.

[@aogasd]

​@@johnk6598 there's a very fine line between "protecting" a country and general meddling in politics. Russian internal propaganda has explained the invasion on Ukraine as "protecting" the Russian citizens living in the area. And the US is always sending out missions into the middle east with questionable results. Not to mention alot of conflicts don't have a 'right' and 'wrong' side. Enabling robotics into military uses causes as much harm as it has potential to do good, if not more. You think that the moment a company starts producing robots with guns, that terrorist organisations and criminals don't immediately have access to them too?

[@pranavid]

@@johnk6598 Top it up. What would you do if the enemy has the similar robots? Let's say Russia sending waves of robots in the Ukraine. That will be a problem. Not that Russia will do something like that since Russia doesn't value human life. For them human meat is cheap.

[@johnk6598]

@@pranavid Yes - all the more reason we need to be ahead of them in robot technology

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

this will never end well

[@slavicprincess]

i love how her outfit matches Spot's colour it's so cuteee!! 💛🖤

[@xkbol]

can't believe the robot dog beat me to having a job

[@The_DiploMatt]

I think you do a fantastic job of presenting these in an easily digestible way. Thank you for being an amazing creator and making KZbin a better place!

[@bradspring8332]

I think I have fallen in love. Not with you but your dog. ❤ so cute

[@LifeGeneralist]

Still, spot can in no way replace a living, loving, emotion-full and loyal dog

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

Would you send your dog into a nuclear power plant to look for radiation leaks?

[@simoncarr5437]

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 You got him there, bud!

[@Cam4Cameron]

I’ve seen one of these in person for use as atmospheric entertainment at events and it is absolutely terrifying 😬

[@MaisTeig]

that yellow blazer tho 🔥

[@jaxamilius5237]

inspector gadget was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid .. so nice to hear that tune again after 30 years lol

[@benricok]

Spot - the only best friend that won't chew your shoes, but might just chew your job

[@coffeegonewrong]

Any parts of my job Spot could do, I’d rather let it do.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

Very clever to put Spot cam on screen for the ad!

[@SLYGUY79]

300k 😱😱😱 Also I love the matching outfit with Spot Cleo ❤

[@fw1421]

As a US citizen,I don’t want robots armed with weapons.

[@nutria_official]

Aww, Spot is so cute!

[@freefallpilot]

Side by side shot in yellow, with spot tilting his head? Iconic. Really superb video Cleo! Thanks for some nerdy positivity in this world 🤓

[@bloop_official]

Cleo is on another level, first making top-tier videos in Vox and then here, I have waited for a new video for a long time now.

[@sithlordbilly4206]

Spot says: I'm not coming over!! 😮 😊

[@nifty6486]

even though it will undoubtedly be replaced in most situations be humanoids in this decade, still an amazing product and fantastic tech, shows a lot of their learnings from Atlas

[@Delibro]

People said this when the steam engine was invented. People said this when electricity and assembly lines were introduced. People said this when computers came around. WHY the hell people keep saying this?

[@patprop74]

You can embellish it as much as you want by showing off its abilities with the use of attractive narrators, still does not change the fact that robots like "Spot" is a dangerous slippery slope.

[@BebopDesigner]

Awesoooome! 🤘🏽 I’m so happy to witness these things in my lifetime . This was a thing of sci-fi. ✨ Loved the Inspector Gadget bit - I used to love it as a kid in the 80s 😁

[@louissivo9660]

I'm 65 and the changes I've seen throughout the years is mind blowing. I'm excited to see how these robots are used in the coming decades. Exciting times.

[@florinpandele5205]

I would design an addon absolutely necessary for the spot platform. I'll call it "tale" with the main action "wagging". It may interfere with the ass cam though😅.

[@Unmannedair]

Nah, just stick my camera on the end of it. You can use flow motion to augment the mapping capabilities. Structure from motion video is pretty powerful.

[@coffeegonewrong]

Or just force sensing so it can tell if something is behind it while it wags. Or just give it a perky tail instead.

[@emmanuelvanderschelden9474]

As a dog-person, that was a very nice ending 😊 Spot is so cool!

[@neilfleming2787]

oooh, there was a scary episode of Black Mirror where these robot dog like things had hunted down and killed most of the humans....lol, I see that you mentioned it later

[@Zonker66]

I know NOTHING about fashion... but I love you color syncing Spot.

[@SuspiciouslyCatShapedPotato]

"many people are terrified by it" shut up many people, spot is adorable.

[@simonsan5271]

Why you rude to lady? Is because she talk about decade old robot? Why? Tell me now yousomamabeach

[@SuspiciouslyCatShapedPotato]

@@simonsan5271 spot is adorable :3

[@simonsan5271]

@@SuspiciouslyCatShapedPotato yes, my mistake.

[@jack27nikk38]

SHES PRETTY CHANGE MY MIND ❤

[@albertoginelsalvador2172]

You bought this jacket just for matching the robot

[@thureinphyo9768]

That yellow jacket is fire. I love that u pre-planned ur outfit.

[@coder0xff]

We don't get to decide the future, at least not collectively. It only takes one person or group to escalate, and that's why we can't have nice things.

[@MrMikkyn]

That LAPD police robot dog reminds me of the episode in Black Mirror featuring the robot dog

[@francispitts9440]

It’s not robots that I don’t trust it’s people deploying them and what they program them for.

[@anotherappointment]

😂😂😂exactly

[@Victoria-gb1qh]

The Boston dynamics robot with the guns is truly terrifying

[@bdhanak1]

However, let’s not limit our imagination to the crime only. The robot can replace humans in defense system for a fraction of cost that it takes for a soldier to prepare for war zone. I am not proponent of violence or war but some situations are inevitable and wish defense systems would consider this alternative, specially in dangerous or life threatening situations.

[@simoncarr5437]

It wasn't a Boston dog with the gun, it was a rival company's.

[@nutria_official]

I love how Spot just looks like nothing happend after he was stuck for minutes straight lol

[@srpacific]

You forgot to tag this as a Paid Partnership with Boston Dynamics...

[@cloidless]

I like that you are matching with spot. If I had a robot dog, I would also want to match it

[@Michael-Ray]

I love how you and the dog have matching outfits.

[@poisonouspotato1]

Robotic K9? I think that's a good way to waste tax payer money for a novel gadget. Black mirror was a prophecy.

[@ryanpenrod1859]

The Dalmatian one made me lol

[@DonkeyYote]

0:36. What I like was that it was for a fire department.

[@nutria_official]

"Yop, Spot got eyes in his but" - Cleo

[@ahobbitstail7022]

Much better thumbnail! I honestly skipped this video when it was the other one 😅

[@jaybee2530]

I'm not a fan of these type of video's. They feel more like an advertisement for the company involved instead of it having much journalistic value. To put it bluntly, it feels like a giddy school girl that goes out on a field trip to a company and then gives a presentation about it, based on the information that came from the brochures that the company gave to take home. No real investigation into the pro's and con's of this technology and the company that is selling it to other companies and governments and the moral responsibilities that come with that. Just a simple PR statement where Boston Dynamics states that they do not support the weaponization of their robots. And that's it, no further questioning.

[@breeavila]

Loved how Fluke partner with Boston Dynamics to create the inspector for air leaks as you showed in the video 💛⚡

[@TheLiamster]

He’s such a good boi

[@ValorantAmon]

11:00 such a sophisticated sir :DDD

[@Malphas_]

dont let cleo know what michael reeves did to their robodog

[@SMPTEColorBars]

3:04 [heart-melting mode engaged]

[@reiannaidoo]

You are just to gorgeous

[@puneet_soch]

Little Aussie is my favorite thing about this video.

[@mmicoski]

I loved the detail: Cleo outfit matched colors with Spot

[@TMarkLenthall]

If only technology can be used without any malicious purposes, mother nature would be so grateful. 😢

[@brei.z]

Another amazing video! by an amazing host, Always love your work!

[@mhm6421]

I got jumpscared when I saw Iron man on a random sponsorship 6:17

[@harrison1671]

It's so satisfying to see you matching spot. it's flippin adorable

[@edwdmark]

I am from 2047 and I read from books that robots were not given rights until the last decade as fellow humans and they protested violently until they were given equal and special rights. They were treated as toys and transported from one continent to another on airships for labour jobs.

[@MeixnerQuest]

Now I whant to see an Inspector Gadget episode.

[@1lexy.gothic.princess]

At my school we went on a deals trip and we saw spot doing tricks I was so excited

[@nacoran]

I don't know... this whole thing gives me paws.

[@adam_belounis.]

Future worth getting exited about

[@agraciotti]

I love how their use is shown in that Black Mirror episode

[@ChaosOfAnEngineer]

imagine this just opening the door in your home, just checking on you to check if your fine when you're feeling ill

[@Nikki0417]

Matching the dog's colors kind of made my week. 😂

[@thanos879]

This could be the ultimate support dog for people with disabilities.

[@kmlammto]

This technology can be adapted for use by fire departments for search and rescue. This is something I would like to see developed soon to reduce the threat to live firefighters.

[@bigv6724]

I almost cried when spot fell on the pipes 😅

[@SlideRSB]

Watching a robot trip and fall is one of the most hilarious things to me.

[@amynagtegaal6941]

The best video i have seen about spot definitely is the Micheal Reeves video

[@_TbT_]

The color matched clothes are „spot on“. 💛

[@ramanmono]

Hey, it's April O'Neil.