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Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500
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But seriously they should stop it with the robots because this is very real:
Certainly come a damn long way in just a few years compared to this:
These are still the scariest ones, IMO. Giant, creepy, wheeled robot birds that move way too smooth and in such an alien way. Gives me the fucking shivers.
What does it actually do though? It looks like it just walks from point A to B. Do you need to program it to do specific tasks?
No.
But it can pull you.
Adam Savage's Spot Robot Rickshaw Carriage!
Adam's first project with Boston Dynamics' Spot robot gives it a novel purpose: pulling a custom-built carriage with Adam as its passenger! Watch Adam give S...
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Even. Better!No.
But it can pull you.
Adam Savage's Spot Robot Rickshaw Carriage!
Adam's first project with Boston Dynamics' Spot robot gives it a novel purpose: pulling a custom-built carriage with Adam as its passenger! Watch Adam give S...
Idle Thumbs kickstarter #2 when?
Yeah, make it like walk the Wipeout track or whatever.
I can see a lot of tech startups getting one of these just to be cool.
Finding more uses for these things would help a lot.
Finding more uses for these things would help a lot.
Spot would be the most awesome version of one of those toddler bike toys.
Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose.
Years from now, they're gonna ask us: where were you when they took over the planet? And we'll say: we just stood by and watched...
Surveillance and data gathering. So, something like a security guard or possibly many other applications.
$74.5K. A bit more than the average annual salary of an employee.
That doesn't seem unreasonable considering it can work 24 hours a day for multiple years and never has to be paid. If this critter can replace a worker and do the same job reasonably well, I can see a lot of businesses finding a use for it.
$74.5K. A bit more than the average annual salary of an employee.
That doesn't seem unreasonable considering it can work 24 hours a day for multiple years and never has to be paid. If this critter can replace a worker and do the same job reasonably well, I can see a lot of businesses finding a use for it.
It doesn't get cold, drink coffee, smoke or take vacations either.
I think another thing to consider here is that this was developed for the military and with military money, and things that are funded like that tend to be expensive.
Both because the military has requirements for reliability and survivability that are not relevant for most civilian applications, and because the military in the US has pretty much unlimited money, and cost is rarely priority one.
I would bet we'll see consumer versions of quad dog robots that are significantly cheaper than this. There are a bunch of companies who work on that at the moment.
Yep, they're entirely reliant on you to do some level of programming for it. I can certainly see applications for them. Would be cool if they could patrol an area at night for example, though not sure what kind of cameras they got on em'.
We'll just say "we figured they couldn't possibly do a worse job of it than we were doing".
This will be evidence in 10 years, stupid human *headshake*
A Chinese company called Unitree already plans to sell a similar machine called the A1, aiming for a price less than US$10,000.
They may fail - to hit that price or to deliver a quality product or maybe even to deliver a product at all - but as you say, as others try, the prices on these will tumble.
Massive R&D costs, very niche market and probably still very laborious to manufacture.
The price isn't all that surprising, this kind of tech is always insanely expensive early on. It will get cheaper over time with competitors and larger scale production.
Does it do gardening with that saw? If so, I'll take one!
Who wants A Blade wolf?
that's how all the problems crop up though
Best to embed the Three Laws in their programming. Add the Zeroth Law just to be sure.
To be fair though, anybody or anything has to slip and fall comically when walking over banana peels. It's a law of nature.
I'm just joking.