Which One is Faster -Laikago By Unitree Robotics Meeting Spotmini From Boston Dynamics. Chinese roboticist Xing Wang has long been a fan of BigDog, AlphaDog, Spot, SpotMini, and other robots that Boston Dynamics has famously introduced over the years. "Marc Raibert … is my idol," Wang once told us about the founder and president of Boston Dynamics. For more info: http://www.unitree.cc/e/action/ShowIn... SpotMini The new SpotMini looks much more polished and less grotesque, like a real-life cross between a Pixar animation and a robot out of a Neill Blomkamp vision of the future, thanks in part to series of bright yellow plates covering its legs and body. The new bot's movement also looks incredibly fluid.