As if walking a robot dog wasn't strange enough, Boston Dynamics' Spot can now take visitors for a walk, as it takes on the role of an English tour guide. In a new video, the engineering firm showed off Spot's new ability to answer questions and crack jokes using a range of accents, as well as several distinct personalities. The robot, decorated with tiny hats and googly eyes, leads guests to different locations and describes what it is seeing. Opening and closing its grabber to mimic a mouth and turning to'look' at people, Spot's performance is impressively close to that of a real guide. Powered by ChatGPT, Spot's creators say they have been surprised by some of the unexpected responses the robot dog has come up with. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot designed by Open AI in November 2022.

If your real-life dog isn't as obedient as you'd like, a Chinese firm may have a perfect robotic replacement for you. Called Go2, the'intelligent quadruped robot' can dance, do a handstand while wiggling its legs in the air and even rush to greet its owner – just like a real pooch. It can also climb the stairs, play fetch, emit music from a built-in speaker and even take photos on command, which are sent straight to the owner's smartphone. A new promo clip shows the bot showing off its tricks, including jumping between rocks and even working its way around a hedge maze. Go2 is similar to the Spot robot dog from rival Boston Dynamics, although it's been designed for consumers at a hefty price tag of $1,600 (£1,240).

Robodogs are being used by the Australian military and can even be controlled by soldiers' minds. Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how it works. The age-old philosophical question, "who let the dogs out?" has finally been solved. Thanks to the help of Ghost Robotics and the Australian military, soldiers can now control robot dogs with their minds. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, yet it's happening right now while half the planet focuses on Pedro Pascal's impeccable performance on "Last of Us." CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER This isn't the first time we've seen robot dogs in action.

A familiar four-legged friend is keeping watch on Pompeii's ruins with dogged determination. A canine robot dubbed Spot, built by the robotics company Boston Dynamics, has been deployed among the terracotta ruins, which were buried under ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. The dexterous creature, recognized worldwide for its inexplicably freaky movements, will collect terrain data with the help of a laser-scanning drone and will also deter tomb robbers by sniffing out illicit underground tunnels. Spot is just one of a series of technologies introduced by park authorities as part of Smart@POMPEI, an initiative that aims to make the site a "Smart Archaeological Park." Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, noted that until now, robots had not found application in archaeological sites "due to the heterogeneity of environmental conditions and the size of the site."

Fox News Flash top headlines for June 7 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Videos of Boston Dynamics' robots have been the stuff of both awe and inspiration, as well as nightmares. Now, it appears the robots will be doing more than just performing parkour or dancing around on YouTube. According to The Verge, who interviewed Boston Dynamics' CEO Marc Raibert at Amazon's Re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, Spot, the company's dog-like robot and arguably its cutest machine, will be available for purchase "within months" and certainly before the end of 2019.

Boston Dynamics has released a new video of its robot dog, Spot, walking around construction sites in Tokyo as the company starts to test it "for commercial usage around the world." The company, owned by Japanese internet conglomerate Softbank, gave Spot a "specialized payload for surveying work progress," while adding another camera in its hand to let it do "detailed inspection work on site." The company doesn't say what Spot's use cases could be, but it's not hard to imagine it as a security guard on a construction site; or making sure workers have what they need. The video of Spot being a creepy, but overall good boy, comes after Boston Dynamics showed its significantly scarier humanoid robot, Atlas, performing parkour, a training discipline that allows people to get from one point to another with little-wasted movement. 'NIGHTMARE-INDUCING' ROBOTS ARE NOW ABLE TO DO BACKFLIPS In that video, posted Thursday, Boston Dynamics said that Atlas has control software that "uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace."

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has taken a robotic dog for a walk at a secretive conference in California. The 54-year-old has been pictured strutting alongside Boston Dynamics' four-legged SpotMini robot, which has previously been compared to killer canine bots featured in the Netflix series Black Mirror. Bezos, who is worth a reported £92 billion ($130 billion), posted the photo to his Twitter account on Monday with the caption: 'Taking my new dog for a walk.' He is currently attending Amazon's'Mars' conference in Palm Springs - an invite-only gathering of robotics companies and academics that focuses on machine learning, automation, robotics and space exploration. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has taken a creepy robotic dog for a walk around a secretive conference in California.