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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.
One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them.
I, for one, welcome our new robot dogs overlords.
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I would be more concerned about the thoughtless owners who walk them, letting them drop little ones and zeroes all over our sidewalks.
It has been done several times but is really difficult to Google.
Nevertheless, here's one report: https://www.scmp.com/news/worl...
0x or or snor perron?!
"Don't worry, his bark is worse than his byte."
Ezekiel 23:20
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...
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