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Meet the backflipping robot dog you can buy right now
The A1 is the newest quadruped robot from Unitree and sells for under $10,000. We talked with the robot’s creators about how it works, and how the robot is different from its much more expensive predecessor.
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Andy Altman
May 14, 2020 at 6:12 pm
How would you use the A1???
Marcus Hart
May 14, 2020 at 6:36 pm
Andy Altman as it is currently a paper weight.
J Dunno
May 14, 2020 at 6:55 pm
For butt stuff obviously
Life On Two Wheels
May 14, 2020 at 7:57 pm
To fetch water from the kitchen
William Anderson
May 14, 2020 at 11:47 pm
When camping it would be so nice to fill up a water tank, put it on the A1 and have it walk the filled up tank back instead of me carrying the water.
iblackfeathers
May 15, 2020 at 2:30 am
make me a sandwich. put it on steak. cut it in half when i need a2 size. have it fight “an1” in a grammar contest. burn ten grand in cash.
Cerise M
May 15, 2020 at 11:29 am
I’d have a drone walk the A1, while the A1 walks my dog.
Ma Ipad
May 15, 2020 at 2:52 pm
Home security! For when I’m out!
bernard john
May 14, 2020 at 6:40 pm
What happens if something goes wrong with one of those how you getting it repaired if it don’t have the technical expertise in your country to deal with that?
Bruce Adams
May 14, 2020 at 6:45 pm
I had back surgery and I need something to help me go up stairs, curbs and on irregular surfaces. This would be perfect. Does it come with a 12V charger? Will it chase a tennis ball and not get it disgustingly wet?
djrika1
May 14, 2020 at 6:47 pm
Black Mirror dog lol
PurplePeoplesParty
May 14, 2020 at 6:52 pm
It needs to bark, wag a tail, get me a beer and listen to all my woes sympathetically. Nana will knit a warm and fuzzy cover.
Movie matics
May 14, 2020 at 7:08 pm
Make one that looks like Red XIII than I’m all in.
Amusis
May 14, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Useful for what?
Christian Manuel Tan
May 14, 2020 at 7:54 pm
Put a camera with a stabilizer on its back or maybe just a 360 camera
lawlerzwtf
May 14, 2020 at 8:10 pm
Legit looks like stolen tech from Boston Dynamics lol
Anon A
May 15, 2020 at 12:57 am
Like they stole tech from a dog.
Born Justice Rule
May 14, 2020 at 8:11 pm
i guarantee these have been weaponized.
Christopher T.
May 14, 2020 at 8:14 pm
10k for a robot that dies in 2 hours? Might as well just buy a drone at least then you can fly.
Cameron Hall
May 14, 2020 at 8:42 pm
*It can’t even do windows*
Rob Grant
May 14, 2020 at 8:46 pm
Wooow Holly Crap
That’s amazing
Just kidding, It’s Krap….
James Smith
May 14, 2020 at 8:58 pm
I just don’t see the purpose of this thing other to show off to someone. Other than follow you around what does it do?
Ferdinand Arcinue
May 14, 2020 at 9:04 pm
If I had one, I’d mount a thermal camera and plasma rifle on top and let it go hunting.
wero liera
May 14, 2020 at 9:12 pm
Ordered one. Hope it lives up to it.
Peter Harper
May 14, 2020 at 9:18 pm
Weapons platform to hunt those evil SQUIRRELS!????
Greg Hartwick
May 14, 2020 at 9:44 pm
A1! Get me a beer!
Frank Maclow
May 14, 2020 at 10:13 pm
Even if I was a millionaire I wouldn’t buy a robot dog that needs to recharge every 2 hours. I would wait few years for a better battery which could last a day at least. The problem is not the price, but the battery
Guitar Prodigy by Wilfred Clinton
May 14, 2020 at 10:33 pm
????
93sal
May 14, 2020 at 10:46 pm
I’d love to see more of the yellow McLaren 675LT in the background at 0:03 ????
bioroid09
May 14, 2020 at 11:13 pm
Skynet inches closer everyday 🙂
Mr. Round2
May 14, 2020 at 11:14 pm
Add red and blue lights armed with SMG ….oooof
Abid Rustam
May 14, 2020 at 11:57 pm
Black Mirror!
Kringle
May 15, 2020 at 12:10 am
Just 10,000 dollars to complete my Dark Laser and Flippsie costume!!
Paul Jones
May 15, 2020 at 1:34 am
Sad how companies will just rip off the ideas of other companies.
Ace C.
May 15, 2020 at 2:12 am
They need a cargo rack, so you could put your bags and stuff on it.
Louis Y
May 15, 2020 at 2:16 am
Version 3 of this would be $2000 dollars and whole day of battery and tele present capabilities and I will use it for whole security. It needs to be waterproof too
kris guntner
May 15, 2020 at 2:32 am
When aggressive REAL dogs see this they will attack on sight based on it’s movement….bye bye 10K.
ABC EFG
May 15, 2020 at 2:53 am
Nice but it can’t do fetch or scare the robber away.
rudyanz geneziz
May 15, 2020 at 3:27 am
So what the benefits of having this thing, instead a real one
The Shrike
May 15, 2020 at 4:51 am
Boston Dynamics Spot clone.
Chris Gonzalez
May 15, 2020 at 5:02 am
Still no. Maybe they should build a 1000 Robot
Alex Mercer
May 15, 2020 at 5:08 am
A real dog will do more than that, It will give you love when you are lonely.
Jagoan Indonesia
May 15, 2020 at 5:29 am
It looks more like grasshopper than a dog ????
jan rico
May 15, 2020 at 5:37 am
use this to vid record BIGFOOT. AND MORE
Tony Dinh
May 15, 2020 at 5:42 am
Hey CNET, why are you promoting Chinese knock offs and supporting commie communist country????
Lucan Sanchez
May 15, 2020 at 8:32 am
A waste of time and energy the robot has no use. Just because science and technology is progressing it doesn’t mean everything has to be in mass production. The time and resources put in to making these robots could be used for something useful. Kids would be better of playing with lego or being creative in dreams. In a digital age wasting time and resources on things like this robot is rediculas if it has no functionality in the real world like factorys, security observations, customer services or planet and moon reconnaissance and Work forces. There’s to much rubbish being made. If the world wasn’t making “100” of the same things all over the world like cars, tv’s and phones there wouldn’t be so much rubbish and wasted time and energy. People don’t need 100’s of the same thing being made there should be a few factory’s making one product that is the best. Then there would be some time to find a use for this robot in real time. We live in a working world and we are all consumers, entertain or be entertained, live and let live. There’s no time for job’s in a working world.
Diana Carlton
May 15, 2020 at 10:20 am
I’d buy one, stick it in the yard with my large dogs and see how long the stupid robot dog lasts.
Umar H
May 15, 2020 at 11:46 am
Why not add a head to it?
Barangay TV.
May 15, 2020 at 7:58 pm
Or hand
Ron Edward
May 15, 2020 at 11:57 am
Trying to get people used to these since you’ll soon see them used in hospitals and patrolling the streets like in Singapore. ????
FyberOptic
May 15, 2020 at 12:54 pm
As much as I like robots, this is essentially a pointless toy that the rich person who bought it would get tired of very quickly. They’d use it as a gimmick in a YouTube video or to impress some friends, then it breaks.
allfamyankee85
May 15, 2020 at 2:33 pm
Dude your cable management by your tv is giving me anxiety. Robot is cool.
TheEseJandro
May 15, 2020 at 2:49 pm
NO!!!
TheEseJandro
May 15, 2020 at 2:52 pm
Incoming Lawsuit
TheEseJandro
May 15, 2020 at 2:52 pm
Chinese companies stealing IP. ????♂️
Rolando Walcott
May 16, 2020 at 3:31 am
Steal or purchase legitimately you don’t know.
Floor Gang
May 15, 2020 at 5:44 pm
I want a YEETing dog instead
bg4tification
May 15, 2020 at 8:27 pm
So is the military going to buy large versions and send them into battle?
Clyde Morgan
May 15, 2020 at 11:02 pm
you said you would use this product in your words “on long hiking trips and rock climbing” when the battery last only 2.5 hrs? I can see this as a great working tool but as a play thing I have many other things I would rather do even if this product was less than $500. (no typo)
SecureMind
May 16, 2020 at 8:37 am
Are you Linus’s brother?
Eastman Webb
May 16, 2020 at 5:48 pm
By 2035 this will cost $299.
Carlos Luis Alvarez
May 16, 2020 at 9:43 pm
Not sure I’d buy and trust a chinese robot and keep it at home..
daghrb6
May 17, 2020 at 6:34 pm
Dont buy anything Chinese. Frekkin Ant colony mindless environment destroyers.
Mohammed Uzman
May 17, 2020 at 10:06 am
Grasshoppers ????
Sari Laurila
May 17, 2020 at 10:13 am
I would like to scratch and torture that ridiculous and unnatural robot dog!!! Greetings from Dr. Evil Cat ????????????????
Kakha Khmelidze
May 17, 2020 at 11:00 am
Insane technology. Best of all.
My Beautiful Cat
May 17, 2020 at 1:17 pm
I would rather get a real dog for free in adoption, rather than having a machine ???????????? for $10000
lokewailinn William
May 17, 2020 at 1:37 pm
Why the title is giving me fairly odd parents vibe
Aakash
May 17, 2020 at 1:39 pm
Chinese COPY
HeadakusMaximus
May 17, 2020 at 2:56 pm
I’d stick some lidar, more cameras, some gas sensors, and some lights on it and send it in to map the mine where I work.
Paulo Lobo
May 17, 2020 at 8:48 pm
$10.000 is 9249,55eur, you must be jooking !
Salvador The 4th
May 17, 2020 at 9:13 pm
I saw this dog on Black Mirror ????????