{"id":566206,"date":"2026-05-04T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:44:13","slug":"moment-real-dog-gets-confused-by-ai-robot-pooch-as-they-come-face-to-face-in-holland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566206\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment real dog gets confused by AI robot pooch as they come face-to-face in Holland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the moment a real dog<\/a> came face-to-face with a robot dog on the streets of west London \u2014 and wasn\u2019t very happy about it.<\/p>\n

The footage, filmed in Holland Park<\/a>, shows the black and white dog clearly confused by its robotic counterpart, keeping its distance and barking loudly.<\/p>\n

Spooked by the robot, the dog constantly approaches warily before retreating, still barking and flapping its ears.<\/p>\n

At one point, the robot dog<\/a> astonishingly stands on its hind legs – to shouts of \u201cOh my God what the hell?\u201d from equally bewildered onlookers.<\/p>\n

As the robot comes closer, the dog retreats further, moving onto some steps on the pavement in an attempt to escape.<\/p>\n

The dog\u2019s owner, wearing a grey top and jeans, also can\u2019t believe what he is seeing, shaking his head with a smile on his face.<\/p>\n

The footage is accompanied by ongoing commentary from the person filming, with comments such as \u201cDog sees the future and he is like \u2018Nah\u2019. That is hilarious\u201d and \u201cThe dog is like what is going on. You are on four legs but this should not be happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

The robot dog in the video appears to be the Go2 AIR Robotic Dog model made by Chinese firm Unitree Robotics.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The robot dog goes up on its hind legs (X)<\/p>\n

Costing around \u00a32,000, it is described as an \u201cadvanced intelligent bionic quadruped robot\u201d, which can \u201cperform complex movements\u201d including upside-down walking, adaptive roll-over and obstacle climbing.<\/p>\n

It uses sensors to assess its surroundings, uses reflected light to create 3D models and maps of nearby objects, and can recognise human voices and respond to commands and questions.<\/p>\n

There is a camera where the dog’s face would be with an ultra-wide angle lens, and an accompanying smartphone app which lets users+ view the photos or see a feed of surroundings from the dog’s point of view.<\/p>\n

It’s not all good news however – they can\u2019t be walked in the rain as they aren\u2019t waterproof, and they have a battery life of just one to two hours.<\/p>\n

Unitree Robotics is based in Hangzhou, China, and is one of the biggest players in the robotics industry. <\/a><\/p>\n

The Unitree G1 robot is one of the most advanced commercially available humanoid robots in the world.<\/p>\n

Footage of the G1 robot went viral earlier this year when a young boy was slapped across the face by a rogue robot in Shaanxi Province, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the moment a real dog came face-to-face with a robot dog on the streets of west…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,25453,24338,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-dog","tag-robot","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}