Xiaomi builds a robot dog out of smartphone cameras and an Nvidia edge AI board

Chinese consumer electronics upstart Xiaomi has let a robot dog off the leash. The not-so-beating heart of the company's "CyberDog" is an Nvidia Jetson Xavier board that offers 384 of the GPU specialist's CUDA cores plus 48 Tensor cores. The board also includes a six-core Carmel ARMv8.2 64-bit CPU. Xiaomi says it's also used …

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Ideal companion

For LESTER.

Something for Mr Speed to build if and when Vulture central return to the office.

Icon: LESTER'S prime directive being the delivery of beer...

[Nursing A Semi]

What vision?

Does it see at a quantum level?

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Could it be a guide dog? "Xiaomi the exit", etc.

[Jimmy2Cows]

Walkies

Could be an ideal pub companion. <singing>"Xiaomi the way to go home..."

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Walkies

Yeah he's already done that joke.

[adam 40]

Dogs like digging holes

With so many GPU cores it could dig for BitCoin.

or...

Dogecoin!

[Porco Rosso]

UPSTART Xiaomi , sarcasm ?

Can the register give their definition of what is an Upstart ?

Xiaomi is 10 years old

Revenue in 2020 US$43.36 billion

Number of employees: 22,074 (31 December 2020)

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

JFC

That thing looks terrifying. If I found one in my house, I would beat/shoot/stab it into smoking rubble.

[cyberdemon]

Re: JFC

Just before the Combine come to get you..

[cyberdemon]

Open Source

Source??

Despite much trumpeting by Xiaomi of this mutt being Open Source, I can't find the open source designs anywhere.

I highly doubt they'd have the important bits like the neural network weights.

[short]

Re: Open Source

Depressingly typical. Fanfare, launch, 'open source', reluctant push of a few drawings and a crappily forked OS that'll never build.

Nice to see they've optimised out the more depressing stages.

Also, since Intel have just canned their Realsense cameras and team, " Intel ® RealSense™ D450 Depth module" doesn't look like a long term winner.

Remember, kids: Intel shit up an abandon any market they enter.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Open Source

Sadly, I fear that the Chinese translation of "Open Source" seems to be

"We have shamelessly plagiarised various designs that Western Gwailos have carelessly given to us for free - how Communist of them. Now they will see the fruits of their own technology as they are exterminated to make way for the Party"

[Anonymous South African Coward]

Just add some Terminator-looking fangs and things that can rip and tear.

Will be great to keep ne'er-do-wells away.

And if you do purchase such an abomination, pray that it do not go rogue on you.

[Bob Scrantzen]

"Terminator: The Dogs are Out!"

My first thought too. <shudders>

Xiaomi, please give it a cute, friendly face and different colour scheme.

The new Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 series of mobile phones come in a range of colours.

I love my Nighttime Blue one, although it's more of a (pleasant) Dusk Blue!