Headline here is misleading: it's not a Boston Dynamics' robot dog. It's made by Petoi, and called Bittle.
— I own one, after backing the kickstarter for it.
It's a cool introduction to microcontrollers, programming and such. Although it's more at the animatronics end of the scale than full-blown robotics, due to the usefulness and quantity of the sensors on it. It's quite versatile though, for what it is: has a few expansion parts (sensors, alternate controller board, etc) available from the same company, and can kinda connect to any stuff one might connect to a hobbyist microcontroller.
The code for it is actively developed on Github (OpenCat).
— I own one, after backing the kickstarter for it.
It's a cool introduction to microcontrollers, programming and such. Although it's more at the animatronics end of the scale than full-blown robotics, due to the usefulness and quantity of the sensors on it. It's quite versatile though, for what it is: has a few expansion parts (sensors, alternate controller board, etc) available from the same company, and can kinda connect to any stuff one might connect to a hobbyist microcontroller.
The code for it is actively developed on Github (OpenCat).