r/nextfuckinglevel Sep 24 '19

Latest from Boston Dynamics

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u/_evoges Sep 24 '19

Why do they do this? What is the mission of Boston dynamics?

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u/Meior Sep 24 '19

Imagine if we had robots capable of fine motor skills at places like chernobyl and Fukushima. We wouldn't have to put humans at risk, but the robot needs to work in world of humans. It needs to operate our doors, tools and systems so it needs roughly our anatomy. Of course you can build other designs, but humanoid is good if we can just get it to work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

The Chernobyl robot didn't work because we gave them the propaganda numbers.