This robot dog isn’t into the ruff stuff.
Bunny, an 85-pound purebred from Boston Dynamics, hit midtown Manhattan on a visit together with her owner Agnieszka Pilat this week — and she or he got here in peace.
“I signed a pledge with another robotics corporations that you simply cannot use them for offensive, only defensive. So, for instance, mounting a gun on the robot can be illegal,” Pilat said.
The NYPD has explored using Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs and others have speculated about their potential military use. The models are much like Pilat’s “Bunny.”
Pilat, a Polish-born artist whose paintings fetch as much as $55,000, uses Bunny to create mechanized paintings.
The robots march across canvasses with paint-covered paws.
Pilat’s works have change into a favourite of Silicon Valley’s tech arrivistes.
At a charity auction for Ukrainian refugees, one creation from Pilat’s dog “spot” fetched $40,000.
The dog retails for a cool $75,000. A second robot dog Pilat owns, Basia, — which comes with an arm — goes for $200,000.
En path to a lunch at Del Frisco’s Steakhouse, Bunny got here ‘face’ to face with a flesh and blood pup.
“She’s not a fan,” remarked the biological dog’s owner.
Pilat admitted that “organic dogs” don’t look after Bunny.
“They don’t smell her. So I feel the dearth of smell really disturbs organic dogs,” she said.
Bunny is “very curious, likes animals. And, you understand, the way in which it moves. It’s a hybrid of machine learning and choreography. So it moves really very beautifully. and curiosity’s a primary feature of it,” Pilat added. She doesn’t bark.
The long-lasting robot dog also got here by for a visit to the Recent York Post, where she barged into offices — but didn’t bite any journos.
