TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUSBoston Dynamics' dog-like robot, Spot, is being used in a park in Singapore to help encourage social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Spot, clearly, is no ordinary squirrel-chasing canine. It is an agile, four-legged, arrestingly doglike robot that Singapore has ...
The social structure of a wild dog pack is a fascinating, almost altruistic system. Like other pack animals there is a strict hierarchy, with an alpha breeding pair in charge of the group and the rest of the pack members are all subordinates. When a litter of pups is born, they take ...