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Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
As a minor aside to the story, I find it interesting that the devs tried to make the robotic dog 'talk' by opening and closing it's 'mouth' and failed. Cinema such as Star Wars has proven that humans don't need an android or robot to actually move its mouth when it speaks in order to have a conversation.
I also can't help but wonder what has happened at Boston Dynamics - these robotic dogs were/are a wonder, but they aren't new. They are scary with how agile they are, but it doesn't seem like this is anything different than a thousand other 'I integrated Chat GPT into my R/C car' type things that have come out over the past year. Has innovation at Boston Dynamics stalled?
They are trying to move from "making an impressive video for the show" to "solving actual, real and usefull applications". So this take obviously a long time to produce new results that show this.