Video Friday: More Boston Dynamics, OpenCat Robot, and Uncanny Valley

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. An extra special thank-you to Boston Dynamics this week for posting another video of SpotMini that includes a nice, detailed explanation of what's actually going on: A test of SpotMini's ability to adjust to disturbances as it opens and walks through a door. A person (not shown) drives the robot up to the door, points the hand at the door handle, then gives the'GO' command, both at the beginning of the video and again at 42 seconds.