Xiaomi's $3,000 Cyberdog 2 can do backflips

In 2021, Xiaomi launched CyberDog, affectionately calling it an “open supply quadruped robotic companion.” To say that the robotic animal regarded menacing is an understatement; Let's simply say it wouldn't be misplaced in a dystopian film during which robots rule over people with an iron fist (claws?).

Now, the corporate has a brand new robotic canine, and fortunately it's much less scary than the unique, with its head resembling an actual canine's head, pointy ears and all.

It's known as CyberDog 2, and whereas it was initially introduced for 2023, now the corporate introduced it to MWC Barcelona to indicate off what it may possibly do.

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Though the corporate didn't enable me to play with its four-legged robotic animal, I did see a demo that had 4 Cyberdogs 2 dancing, shaking, and backflipping in unison. It was spectacular, and sure, nonetheless scary, and fairly unlikely to exchange most canine lovers' choice for actual, stay animals.

Reliable companion, able to pounce on each command.
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Xiaomi says Cyberdog 2 could make its personal choices (hopefully they received't contain mutiny), and it has 19 sensors for imaginative and prescient, contact, and listening to. It's designed to “replicate the actions, seems and interactions of an actual canine,” the corporate stated in a press launch.

Like the unique Cyberdog, the brand new model continues to be open-source, which means builders ought to be capable to create apps for the robotic canine.

So far as the value is worried, it is extremely excessive. For $3,000, you may in all probability purchase a number of actual canine. However can they do backflips? We didn't suppose so, human.