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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by gyardley on Sunday May 29, 2016 @10:13AM (#11796432)
I'm not so sure building a robot capable of killing toddlers 'does something for the USA' - at least not anything positive.

I'm not particularly horrified by military robots, but I suspect they'd have to deal with complications and subtleties in the environment even more effectively than domestic robots in order to be remotely usable.

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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by dwc on Sunday May 29, 2016 @10:55AM (#11796554)
> I'm not so sure building a robot capable of killing toddlers 'does something for the USA' - at least not anything positive.

I think that's the point. Rather than building a kick ass military bot, they'd be building a lame domestic servant. People who thought they'd be doing the former may not find satisfaction in the latter.

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