Boston Dynamics is adding ChatGPT’s new voice generation functionality to its Spot robot, the result of which an automaton that can greet people on a company visit, able to generate accents, creating hitherto unknown empathy in the world of robotics, perhaps with the exception of those “abused robot videos” that made us all take their side and see the evil human who pushed the robot, hit it with a stick, or prevented it from doing its job.
