Boston Dynamics, the robotics company now owned by SoftBank (and once deemed too creepy for Google to keep its hands on), released a new video today (Feb. 12) of its latest four-legged creation.
The video shows the latest iteration of its Spot Mini robot standing in front of a door, presumably in Boston Dynamics’ lab. Around the corner pops another Spot with a creepy arm attached to its back. It positions the arm next to the door handle, grabs it, pokes its weird hand-head thing around the door, and holds it open for its robot compatriot.
It feels eerily like the scene in Jurassic Park when the velociraptors figure out how to open a door on their own. Thankfully, most of the humans in that movie got out unscathed, but with the cold, calculating brain of a Boston Dynamics robot behind one of those doors, I don’t know if they would’ve been so lucky.
Boston Dynamics’ researchers have a history of abusing their creations, and now that they know how to open doors, as well as squish cans and do insane backflips, we are almost certainly doomed.
Source: Quartz