Mini, at the Liberty Science Centers Genius Gala. The Spot. Mini is a four legged robot that was developed to learn what is possible with a mobile manipulation platform. Operations lead Seth Davis gave us a little insight into what makes this dog like robot tick. Following is a transcript of the video. Davis Hi, Im Seth Davis and Im the operations lead at Boston Dynamics. Spot. Mini is a four leggedrobot with an arm on it. And we developed this robot to learn what was possible with a mobile manipulation platform. So mobile in the sense that its got four legs and it can go inside of a house or on rough terrain. And manipulation in that we use the mobile base to put the arm where we want to do work. And then we have this arm that can actually pick up things, put them down, and do real work inside of a home, inside of a business, just out in the real world. For demos like this, the robot is semiautomated. Im giving it very basic commands with my Xbox controller. If I tell it to walk forward, it walks forward. The robots making all of its own decisions about what to do with the feet. And when I move the arm, Im just giving very basic commands to move the arm forward or back, move the arm side to side, and the robots making all the decisions about what to do with each individual motor to make that happen. For a real world application, youd want that to be fully autonomous or at least done by somebody whos not in the same location. And were working on that right now as well. Free Online Sign Up FormsAs a highly organized person, I cannot say enough about the efficiency Sign. Up. Genius provides. Gone are the days of my phone, tablet and computer constantly buzzing with e mails from people who want to sign up. No more duplicate items or. No more reminders to myself to remind other people of the obligations they signed up for. The amount of time saved by your site is incredible People say they want more hours in a day. To that I. say USE SIGNUPGENIUSAmy Seipp.