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What reason would there be to disallow it?
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.
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Uh oh. I don’t have access to any of those options. Where can I buy an EMP? Amazon?
EMP weapons are quite difficult to build unless you have $100 and a modicum of engineering skill. And no, I won't google it for you because I like not being on the no-fly list.
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Then you have Tesla....
I don't remember Tesla having massive recalls, especially compared to other car manufacturers that had tons of those over the past years.
Really?! Only $1B for a real company with unique and futuristic products? When I look at the valuations of some Internet companies - it is sad!
Boston Robotics should have stated that his goal was making an autonomous robot that delivers food to your dinner table, and takes professional pictures of the food for Instagram. Seriously, I can't understand why a company developing advanced products that will have civil and military uses was valued so low. Is it struggling with money? Did their progress stall?
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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...
Anyone who can consistently beat the market with the their process doesn't stay in the public investment game for long - why would they? They turn into self-funding private investment firms.
Stocks for the Long Run and all that
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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.
Consistent usage of dumb tactics is unlikely. The robots aren't going to just run across a huge open field, straight toward the enemy, with plenty of warning to set up a defensive 50-cal gun. They could leap through a window or low-quality wall, in complete darkness, while the target is sleeping.
Enjoy your nightmare. :-)
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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.
Machine guns are overly elaborate. A bunch of < $20 drones from Ali express with an explosive tied on would do it. You would not even need elaborate radio-jamming defeating control systems, they just need to fly straight until they hit something then a tilt sensor or timer detonates them. If it’s one thing we learned from myth busters, it’s how much damage the concussion wave from a surprisingly small blast can do to…
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?
Word has it Marc Raibert is not the easiest person to work with as an acquiring company, in a sense that he will keep control of the company, and do whatever he wants with it. Good for him, I think.
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I wonder how much this has changed with the continued increase in stock values and new companies going public. Uber, Doordash, etc. aren't the losers that they appeared to be even just a couple months ago.
If one thing i have seen stock market != real world economics. You had a car rental go broke and its stock got pumped 500% or so after the fact.