Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla...
by notahacker on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:59AM
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Utterly bizarre to think that Google is worried that videos of humanoid robots behaving like big dumb pets present the image of a company developing technology "ready to take humans' jobs" when they've invested so heavily in self driving cars with the stated aim of altogether eliminating a large employment sector.
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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla...
by Spooky23 on Sunday May 29, 2016 @09:13AM
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Perhaps they are worried about investing billions and several man-decades into tech that is producing $0 of revenue.
Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla...
by Fricken on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:26AM
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That much was obvious when Google (Rubin) bought them. Expecting a commericial product from BD in short order is absurd. Expecting them to abandon 35 years of work on hydraulic legs and go back to the drawing board is worse.
I guess we'll never know what Rubin was thinking when he went on a shopping spree with daddy's credit card; or if he was thinking at all.
Hopefully Toyota will be more accomodating; and maybe somewhere in the 2030 timeframe it will be time to start thinking seriously about commercializing useful bipedal robots. A company with decades of experience mass producing machines with 1000s of separate components I'm sure will be much better equipped to handle that than Alphabet.