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Re:Boston Dynamics has a new creepy dog-like robot called Sp... by fourfaces on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:54AM (#15692992)
What would it cost them to attach a friendly dog head and a wagging tail on this headless monster? It would make it more appealing to the public and improve PR. Imagine thousands of these things walking up and down the sidewalks of NYC. They would scare the crap out of everybody.
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Re:Boston Dynamics has a new creepy dog-like robot called Sp... by staz on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:47AM (#15693817)
Yeah the previous version of SpotMini was way more cuter with it's hand/head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng
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Re:Boston Dynamics has a new creepy dog-like robot called Sp... by Hextinium on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:58AM (#15693256)
The problem with that is that you would get further into the uncanny valley, it would actually make the problem worse before BD gets effective enough to make it out of the uncanny valley.
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Re:Boston Dynamics has a new creepy dog-like robot called Sp... by digi_owl on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:43AM (#15694855)
Sony's Aibo suggests otherwise.

The trick is to aim for stylistic rather than photorealistic.

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