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This seems far from the best way to accomplish the goal, and has been turned into a big photo op, which to me comes across as a probable discount for publicity
by handsclean 3y ago
This seems far from the best way to accomplish the goal, and has been turned into a big photo op, which to me comes across as a probable discount for publicity trade, indicating Boston Dynamics being surprisingly desperate for real world use cases. For all the progress in autonomous robots, maybe they’re actually in a sort of uncanny valley of generalization: more general than previously possible, but not general enough to unlock most tasks that previously couldn’t be automated.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoWhat is with these weirdly conspiratorial comments? A company sells their product for money to a government agency, and somehow this makes them "surprisingly desperate". Dude, they're not having the robot strip on the weekends as a side gig.
- rrr_oh_man 3y ago> Dude, they're not having the robot strip on the weekends as a side gig. Beautiful.
- handsclean 3y agoIf you really think not taking product news at face value is conspiratorial, you’re far too trusting. The transactions I’m theorizing here are very common and not illegal. “Surprisingly desperate” seems to not be coming across as I intended, I meant only that it’s surprising that a product that should sell itself is instead searching for use cases, as weakly evidenced by this article but more strongly evidenced by their many past pivots without significant adoption.
- stephendause 3y agoWhat are more cost-effective ways of accomplishing the same goal?
- tamimio 3y agoReal dogs.