On December 15, Oppo will present the long-awaited foldable smartphones Find N2 and Find N2 Flip, and on the eve of December 14, Oppo Inno Day 2022 will take place, where the company will demonstrate its advanced developments. One of them has already been declassified.
Oppo posted a video on its YouTube channel demonstrating Qric in action.
Qric is an acronym for Quadrupedal Robotic with Intelligent Controller. Oppo itself calls Qric a companion robot – actually, around his interaction with a little boy and the events that develop in the video. The robot brings toys to the baby, collects parcels from the courier and can receive a video call from parents.
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There are no technical characteristics yet, but it can be seen that the “head” of the robodog is literally littered with various cameras and sensors. It is not yet known whether the Qric will go on sale or if it is just a demonstration that Oppo is up to date with modern technology.
Xiaomi’s counterpart called CyberDog, let’s recall, was released in a limited number of 1000 copies. They asked for $1,550 for each cyber dog. In a press release, the company noted the open source code of the machine’s design and claimed that the product “inherits domestic animals.”
Xiaomi presented a four-legged robot CyberDog for $1540 — it can do backflips and follow its owner
However, the popularization of four-legged robots belongs primarily to the company Boston Dynamics. In 2020, its product, called Spot, cost $74,500 and was used for a variety of purposes, from remote examination of suspected COVID-19 patients and patrolling various facilities to surveying radioactive waste storage sites in Chernobyl. At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States promised to hand over a robot dog to Ukrainian sappers to help demining the Kyiv region.
Source: gadgettendency
