Xiaomi explains why the CyberDog robot dog is so cheap, and showed in the video his back flip

Recently, Xiaomi unexpectedly introduced its first robot dog CyberDog, which should

to compete with Spot from Boston Dynamics. Many details were not disclosed at the presentation, so the vice president of the company, Chang Cheng, shared interesting details on social networks.

What is known

As it turned out, CyberDog appeared as a smalla project of Xiaomi engineers that they worked on in their free time. Afterwards, executives paid attention to it and invested money in its development. After all, such robots have great potential - for example, they can be used in the service sector, engineering, security and medicine.

In addition, the device uses the latesttechnological solutions such as computer vision, which provides navigation and detects obstacles, recognition of voice commands using AI and other technologies that can subsequently be applied in smartphones and smart home devices.


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But this is still a research product,which continues to improve. That's why he received open source software: this way developers will be able to contribute and expand the functionality of the robot. For the same reason, CyberDog has a low price tag - only $1,540. By comparison, Spot costs about $75,000. That is, Xiaomi is giving away the robot not only at cost, but also at a loss.

Well, as a bonus, the company showed a short video starring CyberDog. On camera he does a backflip - however, for some reason this moment is not shown to the end.

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