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Boston Dynamics: The Spot Boygroup is dancing again
- Thread starter Lupingosei
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StreetsofBeige
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A lot of this weird shit IMO is just a way to market their company as high tech even though the practical use is probably zero.
It's like Toyota or Honda (I forget) marketing that white robot which could walk up and down stairs. Maybe they are trying to sell them to millionaires, but it looks stupid.
Car shows are the same. Some crazy concept car which looks like belongs on Mars is made by some special team to get attention, yet no cars past, present or future will come close to looking like it. But it did it's job. It got people talking, in which it might lead to Camry sales.
Lupingosei
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ItsGreat
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Pagusas
Elden Member
marketing brings notice, which brings investors and money. This “dancing shit” as you call it is an amazing way to creatively show their progress without resorting to the typical boring ass shit that’s expected and gets ignored.
This stuff is needed to make these programs possible.
BouncyFrag
Member
Skynet when?
Pagusas
Elden Member
The moment AI is created and tasked with solving climate change. We all know the easiest solution it’ll come up with…
Lupingosei
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
It's probably because there's no practical uses to promote. In other words, cool concept but zero value right now.
If a company sells tractors and cranes, they dont need to make them do an orchestrated dance off. They'll just show them plowing or lifting heavy stuff to prove it's worth buying or leasing.
If SAP wants to promote to giant companies their software program that does sales and shipments tracking, they arent going o make a video game demo to get attention. They'll just get sales reps to partner with companies to go over data and streamline it so everything works. And if it looks worth it, they implement the software over a few years of testing.
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Lupingosei
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Virt McPolygon
Banned
Kpop has invaded and degraded even this?
Coolwhhip
Neophyte
Kpop has invaded and degraded even this?
A korean company bought them no?
Lupingosei
Banned
Hyundai now owns 80% of them.
Also keep in mind, the evolution from Big Dog to this within ~10 years is amazing.
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IbizaPocholo
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
wtf it's not cgi ?!
Insane Metal
Member
Those things are moving in a creepily humanly way. Jeez.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
EverythingsOverrated
Member
Kinda scary how far this technology has come in such a short amount of time.
Lupingosei
Banned
Just because this was once requested
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
yeah there's something definitely oddly human about the way they move ಠ_ಠ
Keihart
Member
That's not how Spot works
Edit: if you were referring to Atlas here is a video:
if you were referring to Spot, here is a video about it too:
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