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Boston Dynamics is not a proxy for advances in robotics. It's a company on the market, and it doesn't have much business. Academic research continues to be valu

Boston Dynamics is not a proxy for advances in robotics. It's a company on the market, and it doesn't have much business. Academic research continues to be valued and thus funded.

newswasboring 6y ago
>Academic research continues to be valued and thus funded. Is it though? Do you have a source for that? Now I understand its hard to actually calculate how much funding is going to which field, after all Robotics is an interdisciplinary field if there ever was one. Last year the AI budget in US was around 1Billion and another half billion or so for quantum computing. Those numbers are so small its astounding considering a kids game is valued at 29.5 billion american dollars. edit: Source for numbers https://syncedreview.com/2020/08/22/trump-slashes-research-funding-but-raises-the-us-federal-ai-budget-by-34-percent/ https://syncedreview.com/2020/08/22/trump-slashes-research-f...