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South Korea is also very advanced in using automated weaponry for their military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1 Soon they may not only have sentry guns, but frickin' bots with frickin lasers attached to their back patrolling the DMZ.
Robot sharks?
Considering their current market cap, it surprises me that Tesla or Space X didn’t pick up BD. Seems like a natural acquisition for a rather low price.
Perhaps companies are leery of accepting Tesla's inflated shares as currency in any deal. SpaceX is still continuously raising cash, so I doubt they have a billion dollars to spend willy-nilly.
Can't wait for them to attach one of those Samsung autonomous sentry guns to the back of Spot and start patrolling the DMZ with it.
They have their own defense subsidiaries such as WIA. http://en.hyundai-wia.com/business/defense_business.asp
Makes sense. South Korea, where Hyundai is based, has by far the most robots per manufacturing employee [1]. They will make good use of the technology. [1] https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5f719cf9f44...
Feels like we said this about previous buyers. All I'm seeing is another sucker to keep the money rolling for more of these sweet viral robot demos that never seem to materialize into much of anything.
This alongside the recent Apple car rumours makes Huyndai quite forward-leaning.
I wonder if there is any connection - is there some use apple cars could get out of boston dynamics technology?
Also it's most likely that Apple will use Hyundai as they did use Intel for some time, until they make their own.
Makes sense. South Korea, where Hyundai is based, has by far the most robots per manufacturing employee [1]. They will make good use of the technology. [1] https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5f719cf9f44...
South Korea is also very advanced in using automated weaponry for their military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1 Soon they may not only have sentry guns, but frickin' bots with frickin lasers attached to their back patrolling the DMZ.
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Feels like we said this about previous buyers. All I'm seeing is another sucker to keep the money rolling for more of these sweet viral robot demos that never seem to materialize into much of anything.
Keep in mind that “previous buyers” is a very small sample size, and there are a huge number of contributing variables. It is certainly not guaranteed to work out, but given the value of really nailing a leap in the space, the price does not seem like an unreasonable gamble
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Feels like we said this about previous buyers. All I'm seeing is another sucker to keep the money rolling for more of these sweet viral robot demos that never seem to materialize into much of anything.
the sucker is the stock market buyer, but those "suckers" are getting rich
I realize Korea is an ally, but this seems like tech we wouldn't want to lose the domestic capability to produce. Or tech we wouldn't want to cede the lead on. Why would Darpa pour so much money in for this outcome?
Because DARPA invests in high-risk research! They pour lots of money into lots of failures. It’s the nature of research. DARPA gave up on Boston Dynamics in 2015 - BigDog and it’s like were just too noisy and finicky for use in a combat situation. I believe all the BD robots they purchased are in storage. And it’s not like Boston Dynamics was ever an extension of DARPA. The DARPA collaboration (along with the rise of…
That's presumptive of you.
Do you really think Hyundai is going to use this tech for humanitarian aid, or are you just fishing here?
I want a strong US to counter the fact that the number one economy in the world is a fascist state. A state with more engineers than us and that can quickly duplicate our tech sector.
I'm happy that it's our ally buying this tech, but the US needs to be building more of this technology, not less. If we let our lead be in technology like stupid chat apps, that's a frivolous market with no moat.
A neat reminder that most Mergers and Acquisitions are money losing and that robots on legs are a neat idea but mostly useless
In a world made around human bodies, hardly.
I should’ve said that most of the current solutions are useless
There will probably be good ones in the future