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Seems like this fits in well with Hyundai's autonomous car project Motional, which is also based in Boston. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21362322/hyundai-aptiv-mo...
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ITAR or even classified The robots are practically weapons. Imagine the 4-legged one chasing you down like a large cat could, then pouncing on you. Imagine the 2-legged one with armor, relentlessly stalking you like Terminator.
In my (somewhat limited) experience, I'd be surprised is Boston Dynamics robots are, wholesale, on the list of export control. ITAR classification isn't usually an arbitrary designation, there's typically some aspect in particular that falls under the designation. For example, non-binary source code in the robots could have the potential for export control, but almost certainly not the physical robot itself. As an ex…
To further your point, if the inertial navigation system has low limits for max acceleration and angular velocity (i.e. can't be put in a missile) then it can still be accurate enough for this task without ITAR restrictions.
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Stock market is real, what's fake is all the modelling they do in excel.
Stock market is real for the few privileged insiders, the rest of us have modest profits or even loses that pay for someone else's profits.
And, for the record, the rich aren't getting better returns than the rest of us--the S&P beats the vast majority of Hedge Funds, year after year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/active-fund-managers-trail-t...
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ITAR or even classified The robots are practically weapons. Imagine the 4-legged one chasing you down like a large cat could, then pouncing on you. Imagine the 2-legged one with armor, relentlessly stalking you like Terminator.
BD robots could be easily defeated by a 50-cal bullet or an EMP or a sandstorm or merely by preventing them from recharging their batteries. Reality is not like the movies.
Boston Dynamics is such a hyped company, yet it constantly gets shoveled from one mega corp to another...Does it mean none of those companies see a profitable future with it?
Their new pivot towards wheeled logistic robots is acknowledgement of this fact. They still try to push probably unnecessary "legs with wheels" with Handle.
What robot revolution needs is nimble hands.
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That's just software versus hardware. If you have a solid software platform you can scale it up to millions of users at very little operation cost per user. But a robot? You have a very significant cost per unit. Not to mention lots of risk if you have any warranties and for your brand. Like if you ship 100k units and they have a critical component that gives out after 2 months due to a bad manufacturing run that's a…
Then you have Tesla....
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ITAR or even classified The robots are practically weapons. Imagine the 4-legged one chasing you down like a large cat could, then pouncing on you. Imagine the 2-legged one with armor, relentlessly stalking you like Terminator.
I'm far more worried about kamikaze drones with machine guns than I am about robot dogs. You can crank out 100 cheap and deadly flying drones for the cost of the smallest robot dog. The dog might be tougher, but it's much slower and easier to stop. I imagine in the not-so-near future there will be fleets of mini drones seeking out soft targets.
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Stock market is real for the few privileged insiders, the rest of us have modest profits or even loses that pay for someone else's profits.
Silliness. The market is effectively a free money machine for people who are capable of delaying gratification. The fact that most people are not capable of this is not the fault of the market. And, for the record, the rich aren't getting better returns than the rest of us--the S&P beats the vast majority of Hedge Funds, year after year. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/active-fund-managers-trail-t...
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BD robots could be easily defeated by a 50-cal bullet or an EMP or a sandstorm or merely by preventing them from recharging their batteries. Reality is not like the movies.
Uh oh. I don’t have access to any of those options. Where can I buy an EMP? Amazon?
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Stock market is real for the few privileged insiders, the rest of us have modest profits or even loses that pay for someone else's profits.
Silliness. The market is effectively a free money machine for people who are capable of delaying gratification. The fact that most people are not capable of this is not the fault of the market. And, for the record, the rich aren't getting better returns than the rest of us--the S&P beats the vast majority of Hedge Funds, year after year. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/active-fund-managers-trail-t...