Xiaomi announces "Spot" -style dog-shaped robot "CyberDog". You can reach it for about 170,000 yen!

Written By mobilephonebrand

About a medium-sized dog that is reasonably sized.

Chinese home appliance maker Xiaomi has announced the four-legged walking robot "CyberDog", which is a dog-shaped robot "Spot" from Boston Dynamics. It seems that the name is close to Tesla's "Cybertruck", and it seems that it is taking a good shot.

Xiaomi's first dog-shaped robot, "CyberDog," is open source and user-programmable. Now you can expand your abilities and possibilities as you like.

Follow voice instructions like a pet

The built-in servo motor was developed in-house and has excellent agility and supports a wide range of movements. Its maximum torque is 32 Nm, it boasts a rotation speed of 220 Rpm, and it has enough leg strength to run at a maximum speed of 3.2 m / sec and fly in the air.

シャオミが「Spot」風の犬型ロボ「CyberDog」を発表。約17万円なら手が届く!

The brain is equipped with a platform called NVIDIA's AI super computer "Jetson Xavier NX", 384 NVIDIA CUDA cores, 48 ​​matrix arithmetic unit Tensor cores, 6 Carmel ARM CPUs, and deep learning accelerator Equipped with two ration engines, it instantly processes the enormous amount of data captured by 11 types of sensors. Sensors include tactile sensors, ultra-wide-angle fish-eye cameras, ultrasonic sensors, GPS modules, imaging technology cultivated on smartphones, Intel's "RealSense D450" depth module, etc. so that you can feel the surrounding environment and analyze in real time. It is made.

These mechanisms allow you to map for navigation, guide you to your destination, avoid obstacles, detect and track human faces and postures, and even follow your master for a walk. In addition, it can be moved with a wake word by voice instruction so that it can behave like a pet, and it can be operated from a dedicated smartphone application.

In the video below, we also show upright and tapirus. You can do it, and with this feeling, you can do more like a dog.

Limited to 1,000 units, about 170,000 yen

First of all, the number of production is 1,000. The price is not as big as 8 million yen like "Spot", but it is in the affordable price range of 9,999 RMB (about 170,000 yen).Searchlights, panoramic cameras, motion cameras, LiDAR, etc. are optional and can be installed at an additional charge.

It is unknown if it will be released outside of China, but it seems that we would like developers all over the world to program it, so will it be sold overseas? I think.

Is dog-shaped robot booming in China?

In China, there are other "Spot" -style pioneers such as Unitree's "A1" which costs less than about 1 million yen and "Go1 air" where you can change for 300,000 yen. Although "CyberDog" has high specs, it is cheap at about 170,000 yen, so price competition may occur. It seems that cheaper ones will come out soon.

Source: Twitter (1, 2), Xiaomi via SLASH GEAR, INTERESTING ENGINEERING