Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up To Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on Sunday July 22, 2018 @07:00AM from the they-are-coming dept.

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.

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Re:Fahrenheit 451... by Applehu+Akbar · 2018-07-22 07:34 · Score: 4, Funny

I would be more concerned about the thoughtless owners who walk them, letting them drop little ones and zeroes all over our sidewalks.
Re:Fahrenheit 451... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2018-07-22 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny

"Don't worry, his bark is worse than his byte."

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Ezekiel 23:20