Boston Dynamics' creepy robot dog is going up for sale

FoxNews.com/tech ^ | June 7, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

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[gundog]

Makes a better coffee table than dog.

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Would be great if you could afford one of these guys to walk it for you!

[Fai Mao]

I saw a documentary on the military uses for these type things. They showed a larger one with a gasoline motor that was basically a mechanical mule that could be used to transport ammo and supplies allowing troops to be less heavily encumbered.

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[Steely Tom]

Be fun to see a guy kick it like that, and then after it recovers it turns around to face him, tases him into oblivion, then keeps on walking.

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[bramps]

But can it core a apple?

[bigbob]

I would so sic that thing on my former neighbors nasty-ass yappy mutt!

[Vince Ferrer]

I’ve seen some short videos with that one, is that in a movie?

[BeauBo]

Patrol the Southern Border, Spot!

Good Dog!

Arm them with pepper spray/dye and tasers, to hit anyone on the fence. Network them all together, so the command post can send out the big dogs, when the little ones alert on something.

[OrangeHoof]

I’ll bet it shits data all over the rug.

[BTerclinger]

Doubt if its armor played.

[piasa]

Evidently they didn’t want to give the things the means to jump because the hindquarters are lacking a thigh...the “back legs” are just repurposed arms.
In the subsequent pictures where the black tubby rhinolike one tries to go uphill it has a bit of trouble because it only has rear arms and no thighs and can’t use haunches like a horse could.
I wonder why they used such strange ways of articulation when natural models abound. I would think that great shoulder they have wouldn’t be that much easier to design than a true leg that could bunch up and spring to make going uphill much easier.

[piasa]

Oddly enough the green one has horselikee hindquarters... They need to steal those and stick them on the tubby black rhino.

[piasa]

Looks like a four legged tick