Boston Dynamics lost the military contract(s) because the robot dog was waaay too loud to be used in the field (would give away position).

This thing is just as loud, so you'll be able to hear our new robot overlords a mile away before you have to welcome them.

we're all fucked!

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

Oh gentle machines, please spare my life, and the life of my family.

Boston Dynamics is trying really hard to become Cyberdine Systems for real huh?

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Good thing I don't work at Boston Dynamics, I'd have programmed one of those dog bots to start humping everyone's legs.

I think I'd be permanently pissed off if I was a gardener at Boston Dynamics.

Suddenly, I have a new test idea for a new Boston Dynamic's Dogs.

What a crap title to a great video. Change it to something cool relating to terminator like "Skynet is one step closer to wold domination" or "Boston Dynamics tests PETMAN, Sarah Connor wanted for questioning.
*promote ?

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Boston Dynamics make the coolest toys.

>> ^bmacs27:

Not nearly as much as Honda has spent on Asimo. I know both groups. I've spoken personally with the director of the Asimo project. The lab I'm in has been a customer of Boston Dynamics since all they made were avatars for virtual environments. Boston Dynamics isn't that large a company, and they don't get that much defense money. They just have smart dudes.
>> ^mxxcon:
>> ^bmacs27:
>> ^mxxcon:
why don't they just buy technology from toyota's asimo and make it more agile?
it seems like they are reinventing stuff that japanese companies already developed.

This is way beyond Asimo.
and it took them how long and how much money?

throughout all the years that they've worked on bigdog, alphadog, (betadog?), littledog, this thing, I wouldn't be surprised if they got ~$50mil

Not nearly as much as Honda has spent on Asimo. I know both groups. I've spoken personally with the director of the Asimo project. The lab I'm in has been a customer of Boston Dynamics since all they made were avatars for virtual environments. Boston Dynamics isn't that large a company, and they don't get that much defense money. They just have smart dudes.

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^bmacs27:
>> ^mxxcon:
why don't they just buy technology from toyota's asimo and make it more agile?
it seems like they are reinventing stuff that japanese companies already developed.

This is way beyond Asimo.
and it took them how long and how much money?

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^mxxcon:
why don't they just buy technology from toyota's asimo and make it more agile?
it seems like they are reinventing stuff that japanese companies already developed.

First, that's Honda. Second, probably because BD wants their robots to perform certain functions that ASIMO cannot. ASIMO is 25+ years old now and still can't reliably climb a staircase that it's been specifically programmed to climb. The BD robots, on the other hand, can figure out how to climb terrain on the fly and do it consistently.
it's 25 years old but I'm if you are talking about department of defense money, they can whip up something much more agile..if they don't already have something like that in their closed labs
ya, it can climb terrain on the fly with 25' tall rigging and cables all around it.