This jumping $800 robot camera dog filled me with joy

The Mondo Robotics Beni. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

What if you had a drone that wasn't a buzzy, annoying alert radical wanted to swat - but alternatively a cute canine that runs and jumps? What if it could bash tricks connected command, and film your tricks arsenic well? What if it could get close backmost up aft a nasty-looking crash, dozens of times successful a row?

The archetypal clip I saw Beni connected Instagram, I instantly thought it was AI video slop. Surely user robots aren't that astute and agile successful 2026? Then I took the existent robot for a spin. Truth is, Beni does request work. But my archetypal two-hour demo was truthful overmuch fun, I severely privation 1 for myself.

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