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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by sii on Sunday May 29, 2016 @05:20AM (#11795640)
There are already robots for mowing the lawn and the results are great. Biggest time saver since i got my first dish washer.
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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by usrusr on Sunday May 29, 2016 @07:23AM (#11795961)
Autonomous tools vs autonomous puppets to operate conventional tools. Roomba vs Ltd Cmdr Data.

We won't be seeing much of the latter any time soon. Even Star Wars assumes that the "roomba" type would be far more useful than his golden friend.

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