Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/24/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-is.html
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Robotic dog available for adoption:
Needs a loving home as it has been traumatized by abusive previous owners.
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Boston Dynamic is a robot puppy mill. I prefer to get my robotic dogs from a robot recuse place…
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I’d love articulated figures of their various robots
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What would you do with it, though? Buy it to chase self-driving cars?
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Our pup needs a friend, maybe this is a solution.
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Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash world is coming closer and closer to reality. This is the Rat Thing beta, all it’s missing is some actual dog wetware and a nuclear isotope battery pack.
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He inspecc
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The video did a fairly good job of convincing me that it’s not really useful for anything. I suppose if you employed a sizeable workforce whose main job was to carry one brick at a time over moderately uneven terrain for periods not exceeding 90 minutes, you might make some savings in the long run by replacing them all with Spots and hiring a few technicians instead. (It probably does have uses, it’s just that they weren’t illustrated at all in the video.)
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I’ve worked in construction for most of my life. At this stage, the best use I can see for Spot is to carry my tools for me. If it can follow me around and have a variety of my gear ready at hand, I can see it earning some of it’s keep. But at the price they ask, it would be better to hire a minimum wage helper, and over time they’ll learn to do construction work themselves.
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I’d much rather have a robotic pooper scooper.
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[fiction]
Boston Dynamics Acquired by Umbrella Corporation
Boston, MA April 1, 2029 - Boston Dynamics today announces purchase by multi-national R&D company the Umbrella Corporation, for an undisclosed amount in stock and cash. Umbrella CEO Jack Whiteknot described the move as, “critical for Umbrella’s strategic plan for dual-point market dominance in both wetware and mobile AI hardware synergy.”
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Yes! Getting this for jogging and long hikes, in case there’s a humanfail it can portage me back to the barn.
It does come with some robocoppish options, though, yes? 
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Do you want
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Because that’s how you get
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No sales to banana importers, though.
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Free SPOT!!!
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Besides the fact the commercial doesn’t show the robot doing anything useful, I really like the commercial production. Any body know how you’d find the firm that created it? Also pretty cool tune.
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