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Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up To Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs (fortune.com)
Boston Dynamics, maker of uncannily agile robots, is poised to bring its first commercial product to market -- a small, dog-like robot called the SpotMini. From a report: The launch was announced in May, and founder Marc Raibert recently said that by July of next year, Boston Dynamics will be producing the SpotMini at the rate of around 1,000 units per year. The broader goal, as reported by Inverse, is to create a flexible platform for a variety of applications. According to Raibert, SpotMini is currently being tested for use in construction, delivery, security, and home assistance applications. The SpotMini moves with the same weirdly smooth confidence as previous experimental Boston Dynamics robots with names like Cheetah, BigDog, and Spot.
Wowzers! It's the Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451! How long before some government or mercenary firm comes up with the bright idea of arming the fucking things?
For every one of those things produced, there should be 100 cheap EMP cannons produced imported from China as a countermeasure.
None of these.
One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them.
I, for one, welcome our new robot dogs overlords.
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Boston Dynamics to produce kilo-dogs!
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
a year have to seek medical attention after a dog bite so replacing those animals with things that won't attack us will really help with safety and medical costs.
Plus, the less dog poop on sidewalks and in parks would be nice. I live in Seattle, and the amount of dog poop here is just terrible.
Oh great; now dog owners will all say
"Oh, don't worry, my dog doesn't bite ... or go ruthless terminator and exterminate mankind. Not my little sweetie kins!"
And now the circle is complete...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Immediately thought of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS
If you are going to get one of these, make sure it's a rescue and not from a breeding factory.
Seriously, it's about time BD actually has something to sell to the public besides youtube videos. They've had a long history of not really making anything actually usable and just sucking up defense funding.
If I hit one in my self-driving car, do I have to wait for the police?
Two links- one to Fortune, one to Slashdot. Fortune rarely works for me, but right there in the article is a link to a previous, better story from Inverse, a more interesting publisher. Why Fortune and not the better article? Kickbacks?
Where are the Youtube links? Perhaps you thought they would be superfluous in a story about clever robots?
Inverse article: https://www.inverse.com/articl...
Cheetah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Boston Dynamics: https://www.youtube.com/channe...
...omphaloskepsis often...
well the K9 cops should use there union to keep the dogs they have now!
Too bad you only think of stupid shit, but then you do have the mental development of a small child.
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* Projecting you're nothing but a MICROCEPHALIC moron again there "Lil' Jowie"?
APK
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With the John Leeson voice, and the nose laser?
Isn't this exactly what we don't want it to do?
Has no one watched this episode of Dark Mirror on Netflix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Guys (Boston Dynamics) this can't end well.
Apparently the thing is about 2 ft tall when standing up (presumably not including the giraffe-like neck). So it's sturdier than I was thinking. And from the pictures it's uglier than I remembered. (I wonder who made the robot I was remembering...it wasn't nearly that ugly, and was white with black spots. And it was smaller.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Most of them will not. They can barely reconcile the their training with the existence of these exception-dogs they aren't allowed to shoot.
Was even a sheriff a few months back who threatened that if Marijuana were to be legalized, they'd "have" to kill all of their drug dogs because of their training.
You'll note that the sniffer ones and the "maul complying innocents because their instincts make them "resist" and thus a criminal" attack dogs are *entirely different*. It's just that the moment they stop being cops, they couldn't be trusted not to empty several magazines inside their own stations because there's a dog there.
NT
I could see these would be good for unloading/loading of aircraft. Hopefully, BD will be smart enough to approach the airlines about that.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Why do all the leg work when he can get humanity to build his infrastructure.
Nuclear fallout is just around the corner and Giddyup Buttercup will be there to salvage and take up space in your inventory.
Before there are robot dog fighting rings and would they be illegal??!
Daggits are in short supply these days, so they should name it Muffit II.
We already have killer dogs. A real pitbull is more dangerous than a robotic dog.
They'll need it. The day of the Terminator isn't too far off...
Aaahnald eventually tries to hunt down John Connor's mother
one with a saddle that I can ride to work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I feel old.
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