VIDEO: Microsoft engineer makes robot to entertain his dog
Chris Spags Microsoft developer Jordan Correa and his wife both work a lot, leaving their dog Darwin alone for long stretches of time. So Correa set out to find a solution. And that solution is called the DarwinBot, an automaton made to serve as a pet companion.
That’s incredibly impressive but I bet confusing as crap for Darwin. He probably spends half the day confused as to why his owner turns into a Transformer and the other half wondering why he then doesn’t move for hours at a time.
This solution probably isn’t for every dog. For example, my dog is afraid of handtrucks on the NYC streets so I can’t imagine her necessarily gravitating toward a mechanical monster with metal pieces poking out all over the place. But I suppose a dog terrified in the corner urinating on itself is technically an engaged dog, so it probably still counts as a win for dog robots everywhere.
DarwinBot is a surrogate play partner for man’s best friend [Engadget]
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