This Man Made a Custom Rickshaw for a Robot Dog to Pull

Mitt-pulled rickshaws are one of the oldest modes of transportation, which is common in many countries including India, China, Thailand, and more. If you go to Kolkata, there are parts of the city where in that location are people yet pulling these carriages with a passenger.

Adam Vicious, the popular Mythbusters co-host, made a similar fashion of personal transportation.

Roughshod got his hands on a Spot robotic dog made by Boston Dynamics last month. He plans to conduct numerous tests with the homo-fabricated domestic dog over the grade of this year. He posts videos of his tests on his YouTube channel, "Adam Savage'due south Tested".

In a recent video that was published on his channel, the man showed how he built a custom "rickshaw" for the Spot robot to pull. He said it took him five days to make a carriage out of a bike-chair chassis. He started his video by saying how obsessed he is with Indian rickshaws. This thought drove him to build his own. To assist him with the project, Savage invited the field applications caput of Boston Dynamics, Seth Davis. Upon asking if the robot can pull the carriage, Davis said that they designed the Spot robot to deport different types of cargo. And then, the robot has cargo rails fastened to its dorsum for terminate-users to connect whatsoever blazon of payload that fits the runway.

Subsequently this, Adam went on to brand a tow-hitch for the robot to attach it to the carriage. The fun starts at the 23-minute mark when Brutal hopped inside the wagon and made the robot dog pull it.

Although this is not whatever practical style to travel, it looked awesome watching a dog-like robot pull a rickshaw. It was as if the victorian era met with the 23rd century. The robot domestic dog was able to carry the passenger with a carriage, still, the speed was of the transport was extremely irksome. When it came to an uphill road, the Spot robot struggled quite a bit to pull the rickshaw.

And then how do y'all like the idea of a robot-canis familiaris taking y'all to the market? Let u.s. know down in the comments.