Humanoid robots have been getting a lot of buzz this year. But quadrupeds \u2014 the mechanical \u201cdogs\u201d \u2014 are emerging as the true proving ground for embodied artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
These four-legged machines have an edge over their upright cousins in stability and agility, making them better suited for real-world deployment. They are the \u201cmost advanced general-purpose robots today,\u201d according to a report released last week from Semianalysis<\/a>. China, not the US, already dominates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humanoid robots have been getting a lot of buzz this year. But quadrupeds \u2014 the mechanical \u201cdogs\u201d \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,13677,607,84,12699,19982,74922,1851,111,139,69,13810,145,19814,9880],"class_list":{"0":"post-102659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-electric-vehicles","15":"tag-elon-reeve-musk","16":"tag-hangzhou-unitree-technology","17":"tag-morgan-stanley","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-robotics","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-tesla-inc","24":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}