A $4,000 quadruped robot from a Chinese manufacturer is now consumer-accessible enough that a journalist bought one and walked it to work.
The street reaction tells you something real: strangers stopped to photograph it, asked whether it was a surveillance device, and biological dogs treated it as a threat worth barking at. That last detail is not a joke. It is a data point about how convincingly these machines now move.
The full piece goes beyond the spectacle. It covers what you actually get for four grand, where the hardware comes from, and whether the price point marks a genuine shift in the consumer robotics market. Read it.
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