The Unitree Go 2. [credit: Unitree ]
If Boston Dynamic’s $75,000 robotic canine, Spot, is simply too wealthy for you, how a couple of stripped-down shopper model? The Chinese language robotics firm Unitree’s newest robotic canine is the Unitree Go 2, which begins at an unbelievable $1,600. After delivery and responsibility charges and all that, it’s going to price extra like $2,400, however that is nonetheless a discount in comparison with an industrial robotic.
Typically it is arduous to inform if these upstart robotics firms are critical and have actual merchandise to promote, however we wish to stress this isn’t Unitree’s first robotic canine. That is the corporate’s third-generation shopper product, together with two fashions of beefier “industrial” bots that compete with Boston Dynamics.
Unitree Go 2 stands at slightly below 16 inches tall, is 27 inches from head to tail, and weighs 33 kilos. It has a digital camera, flashlight, and a continuously spinning 360-degree LiDAR sensor on the face. The robotic has 12 motors—we’re guessing meaning three for every leg—making this a reasonably agile robotic in a position to take care of all kinds of uneven outside terrain and, like all good canine, do a ton of tips. The Go2 has an 8000 mAh battery good for about “1–2” hours of runtime, together with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth for communication with the app. The bottom mannequin has a high velocity of two.5 meters per second.
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