This robotic dog doesn’t like ruffs.
Bunny, an 85-pound purebred dog from Boston Dynamics, visited downtown Manhattan this week along with his owner Agnieszka Pilat — and he arrived in peace.
“I actually have signed a pledge with several other robotics corporations that they can’t be used for offense, just for defense. For instance, it will be illegal to mount a gun on a robot,” said Pilate.
The NYPD investigated using Boston Dynamics robot dogs, and others speculated about their potential military use. The models are just like Pilate’s “Bunny”.
Piłat, a Polish-born artist whose paintings cost as much as $55,000, uses Bunny to create mechanized paintings.
The robots march across the canvases with paws covered in paint.
Pilate’s works have turn out to be favorites of Silicon Valley tech lovers.
At a charity auction for Ukrainian refugees, one work of the “spot” of the dog Pilate reached $ 40,000.
The dog is being sold for a cool $75,000. The second robotic dog that Pilate owns, Basia, who has an arm, costs $200,000.
On his approach to lunch at Del Frisco’s Steakhouse, Bunny got here head to head with a flesh-and-blood puppy.
“She’s not a fan,” remarked the owner of the biological dog.
Pilate admitted that the “organic dogs” didn’t care about Bunny.
“They do not feel it. So I believe the shortage of smell really bothers the eco-friendly dogs,” she said.
Bunny is “very curious, he likes animals. And, you realize, the best way he moves. It’s a hybrid of machine learning and choreography. So it moves really very beautifully. and curiosity is his primary trait,” added Pilate. She doesn’t bark.
The enduring robot dog also visited the Recent York Post, where it invaded the offices – but didn’t bite any journalists.