Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Boston Dynamics will begin selling its creepy robot dogs to the public “within months,” according to CEO Marc Raibert, who told The Verge “We’re just doing some final tweaks to the design” after “testing them relentlessly” – hopefully to obey the three laws of robotics.
Spot is currently being tested in a number of “proof-of-concept” environments, Boston Dynamics’ CEO Marc Raibert told The Verge, including package delivery and surveying work. And although there’s no firm launch date for the commercial version of Spot, it should be available within months, said Raibert, and certainly before the end of the year. –The Verge
Raibert brought the company’s ‘Spot’ dogs to Amazon’s Re:MARS conference in Las Vegas this week, an event focused on machine learning, advanced robotics and space exploration. On the first day of the event, two Boston Dynamics employees trotted out a pair of Spots to dazzle the crowd, and freak out a police dog (until a toy offering was deemed sufficient for friendship). (photos via The Verge)
One Spot robot mounted with 3D cameras can map their environment and perform tasks such as track worker progress or identify hazards at construction sites. Models equipped with a robot arm can also open doors and manipulate objects.
Here’s @BostonDynamics’ SpotMini robot offering a very real dog a peace offering of a cuddly toy. Peace in our time ! pic.twitter.com/DCnGgexMD5
— James Vincent (@jjvincent) June 5, 2019
Despite minor technical difficulties, the event went well for Boston Dynamics – owned by Japan’s SoftBank. One thing was clear; these dogs are really easy to control.
Using a D-pad, you can steer the robot as you would any RC car or mechanical toy. A quick tap on the video feed streamed live from the robot’s front-facing camera lets you select a destination for it to walk to, and another tap lets you assume control of a robot arm mounted on top of the chassis. It all feels very intuitive. –The Verge
According to Raibert, Boston Dynamics will be selling “athletic intelligence” through its robots.
Think of it like Amazon’s AWS business, but instead of offering computing power on tap, its robotic mobility.
The vast majority of bots in use in warehouses and factories today are only able to perform rote tasks, planned in advance down to the millimeter. But if robots are going to work alongside humans in more dynamic environments, they need to be able to react to hazards and changing conditions. These are eminently humans skills: tasks we complete without thinking — like catching a ball — but that stump all but the most advanced bots.
Onstage, Raibert demonstrated these skills by showing a video of Spot robot being frustrated in its attempts to open a door. The robot grapples at the door handle only to be shoved away by an engineer with a hockey stick. “We think this is one of the most important things we do,” said Raibert. “The [robots] can tolerate deviance around expected behavior.” –The Verge
At present, several construction companies in Japan are testing Spot to oversee the work progress on sites. “There’s a remarkable number of construction companies we’re talking to,” said Raibert, adding “But we have some other applications that are very promising — [including] in hostile environments where the cost of having people there is high.”
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All world countries must ban America and Israel. Stop using their lenders for loans. Stop any type of purchase from them. No need any type of deal with America and Israel. This is addiction.
They are bombing and killing you and you buying their weapons, jets cars, foods etc. to flourish their businesses. Shame on you. Don’t scare they cannot sell anything on you by force.
I agree, but trying to get ordinary people to do anything at all is almost impossible. If enough people bought an ounce($20) of silver a month the US dollar would collapse taking Americas ability to kill with it, but nobody can be bothered.
Would you like to elaborate the an ounce of silver a month cost $20 to buy to collapse US economy.
The US dollar has no real value beyond what people are prepared to pay for it. It became the global reserve based on the promise that the US Government would swap dollars for gold if any nation requested gold. Since they defaulted on Bretton Woods they have been printing like crazy. At first the price of gold, or more correctly the price of the dollar collapsed up until they created the paper gold market, which allowed the US to swap worthless dollars, for worthless gold certificates, which allowed them to control the price of the dollar, and gold. Today based on availability relative to the time the US defaulted there are 35,000 dollars in circulation for every ounce of gold. Countries like Russia and China can see that this is a big chink in Americas armor, which is why they and other countries are stocking up on gold. It’s also why the US steals gold whenever it can, such as in Ukraine Libya Iraq and Syria. The US sold most of its alleged gold stock in the 1960’s to prop up the falling dollar. The fall was caused by US expenditure fighting the Vietnam war.
If the supply of real gold and silver can’t match the demand, the paper market will collapse, taking the US dollar with it.
All wars are about money, destroy the US dollar, you destroy their ability to wage war.
It make sense to buy gold instead of silver. I cannot trust American gold to buy. That may be 100% fake.
The fake gold is actually very rare, they scare people with stories of fake gold to stop people from buying. The only way you can fake gold, is to bore holes into the gold and insert tungsten rods, and then cover the holes with more gold. That would be viable with large ingots, but not with half ounce coins, and totally impossible with the credit card sized gold that is sold by the Swiss and others.
The US is the only country to sell 90% gold coins, allegedly they are using the melted down coins that Roosevelt seized in the 1930’s. Also allegedly the London Gold Pool collapsed, when the only gold the US could supply was that 90% pure gold.
Global gold production is 96 million ounces a year. If 96 million people bought 1 ounce of gold a year, the current monetary system would collapse. That’s only $3.50 a day at current prices. Surely there must be 100 million people on earth that can afford $3.50 a day to bring peace to the world?
That is just $35 per month. Nowadays everybody spent $35 per day just on food.
The main thing is if the world leaders cancel all import, export and digital media deals with America then what’s gonna happened. You know?
America must pay tax to the world countries for using their international water and space.
They also need to pay out trillions in war retributions.
The whole world pays tax to America, via money changing fees. Every time you put fuel in your car, or buy a jar of coffee you are helping to fund the US war against the world.
It is America (US), just let them be; they are fucked.
Perfect for Americans.