We need one with teeth.
Posted on 05/12/2018 6:39:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert said Friday that his company plans to begin selling the dog-like SpotMini robot next year, likely to businesses for use as a camera-equipped security guard.
But he thinks other applications for the four-legged contraption will be likely developed by other companies, because the robot has a flat platform to allow other equipment with its own computer programming to be easily mounted on top of it.
SpotMini gets around with the help of cameras on its front, sides and one mounted on its rear — a position that Raibert calls the "butt-cam."
Boston Dynamics already has made 10 SpotMinis with plans to manufacture about 100 more for additional testing this year before going into mass production by the middle of next year, Raibert said. No price has been set for the robot yet, though Raibert said making the latest prototype costs about one-tenth the price of earlier versions.
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Bookmarked.
I don’t feel good about this. Time to put the robo dog down. LOL. Use cyber bullets if you have to. LOL
What’s next, a robo lion? A robo Siberian tiger? Not a good idea.
Robot Dog Opening a Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuA50H9uek
We need one with teeth.
Introducing SpotMini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng
I’d want a nose laser ala K9.
It has teeth (they are tucked in), but I do not know why they call it a dog.
“What’s next, a robo lion? A robo Siberian tiger?”
How about a RoboCop?
A simulation of a dog is not a dog. A simulation of a human (AI) is not a human.
I’m sure that this news coming out on the same day that IMDB’s main page celebrates May 12th as the day that. “T-800 tries to kill Sarah Connor,” is pure coincidence.
Not kidding, either:
http://www.imdb.com
OMG!!
While it received a lot of help from the handler, that dog behaves just like my black lab! LOL PS I called it it on purpose it’s not a he or she.
One day we just might outsmart ourselves. You know curiosity, cat... LOL!
30,000 please.
Every hundred yards along the Mexican Border, strapped with tasers, lasers and paralyzing darts.
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