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Is this a sponsored article? It reads like an advert, gushing over this technology with no mention of downsides, limitations, or competitors. It's all great and
by thamer 5y ago
Is this a sponsored article? It reads like an advert, gushing over this technology with no mention of downsides, limitations, or competitors. It's all great and perfect and the future is awesome.
I believe the term "advertorial" applies pretty well here.
- annoyingnoob 5y agoSeems typical for Boston Dynamics, heavy on marketing, light on detail, everything is awesome, no mention of customers. I'll bet they can program the movements of several robots and set it all to music, everything is cool when you're part of a team.
- culi 5y agoFor companies like Boston Dynamics, the main customer is usually government contractors. And the sad truth is that those are often as easy or easier to trick than general consumers. It's a big key to Elon Musk's success imo. See: all of Musk's hype plans that are really infeasible (e.g. hyperloop). The only plausible customers are governments yet somehow he's still managing to land incredible contracts for plans that are all hype
- faangiq 5y agoAll articles are sponsored. The internet is one giant ad.
- KineticLensman 5y agoIt reminds me when they made a big things of their robot 'mule' being evaluated by the US army/marines. It wasn't accepted. Reasons that I picked up included: * tactically unacceptable noise * short range before being refuelled * not as autonomous as advertised * Increased maintenance / oil leakages. These issues of course won't be such a problem in the warehouse environment but I'd be keen to see an independent assessment of the thing's utility.
- anaganisk 5y agoI mean we have brightest engineers working in biggest companies for building more intrusive apis and AI ML or data lakes to show more Ads.