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I may be ignorant, but from my experience Boston Dynamics is cool and if they were able to sell these things to the AI guys good for them!
I know these robots are used to do maintenance vhecks on big factories, where a dude can tell it to walk to a valve to look at it through a camera, and i think thats fine.
Instead of having 50 cameras you have one walking one.
I work in big factories and this is a stupid fucking idea.
Scenario 1: you have 6 trained maintenance guys on shift. One of them goes to check out the questionable valve and fixes it because they are trained to do so. The 5 other guys also work on stuff.
Scenario 2: one of the maintenace guys sits in the office because someone needs to coordinate with the robot dogs. They call the person who controls the dogs to go check out the valve. It is broken. A couple hours later they call a maintenace tech to check it out for real. Unfortunately the company can only afford 3 maintenance techs now because of the dogs, and one of the techs is on tech duty to communicate with the dog team. The other two are busy so the incident is recorded in the logs for an engineer to hire a contractor to fix at a total of three times the price, in six months' time.
Probably get about two or three lbs of copper out of the motors alone. Still not worth the gas unless you're going to fill up the back of your truck with em though.
Mr Lee's Hong Kong will be perfectly safe thanks to these friendly puppies!
What's the *scratching arm* copper content of these fellas?
wait really? i can whip up a faraday cage in a van and the supplies to disable one of those are under a hundred. looks like we found us a new 300k puppy breeder!
do these do any image analysis? what happens when you hold a mirror to them lol
They feel shame and embarrassment like the rest of us.
Back in the olden times we used to have these things has a stroke called "Alarms." Now, these "Alarms." would alert people when their place was being robbed in old timey times. They cost an afternoon and a couple thousand to set up and would last 20+ years or so. A determined mildly technical person using Youtube could save on the labor and install it themselves.
Black mirror did an episode about this
I wonder how far one of these would fly if it wandered onto a road and got hammered by a semi doing 55mph.
