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Offline BudTopic starter

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Robot delivery....dogs
« on: January 09, 2019, 11:34:59 pm »
A pack of robot dogs is stuffed inside a self driving vehicle, gets delivered to the destination and unleashed. Amazon is probably pulling their hair out ,how come they could not think of such great idea

  https://twitter.com/ContiSafety/status/1082573906836406273
 
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Offline BrianHG

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Re: Robot delivery....dogs
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2019, 11:58:52 pm »
looks like a fake 3d rendering...

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Wait a minute, that is exactly what it is...
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Offline Mr. Scram

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Re: Robot delivery....dogs
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2019, 12:02:13 am »
Quote from: BrianHG on January 09, 2019, 11:58:52 pm
looks like a fake 3d rendering...
Many if not most product "photos" you see are renders nowadays.
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Offline ajb

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Re: Robot delivery....dogs
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2019, 12:53:31 am »
One of those investor bait ideas where some wide eye-ed dreamer says "what if we take this really cool nascent technology and combine it with this other cool idea that people are talking about, and do something really sci-fi!"  With little regard for the fact that one technology is only just starting to be accepted as a thing that really exists right now, and the other has been plateauted for the past several years despite billions and billions of dollars being thrown at the problem.  Suffice to say, it's not exactly a matter of just buying a value-pack of robot dogs from the local microcenter and picking up a new autonomous ford transit from the local dealer and stickin' 'em together with some python and a couple of arduinos.

Those kinds of ideas are like a dime a dozen.
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Re: Robot delivery....dogs
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2019, 01:10:04 am »
This kind of crap is done mainly fo shareholders and analysts to create the impression of being on the bleeding edge of technology.
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Offline Brumby

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Re: Robot delivery....dogs
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2019, 03:05:32 am »
I've seen the bleeding edge of technology - particularly in IT.

The things they don't go into detail about is the amount of blood often involved, plus all the corpses that litter the ground - and of the several heads that keep rolling by.
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Offline LapTop006

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Re: Robot delivery....dogs
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2019, 12:23:51 pm »
Quote from: Bud on January 09, 2019, 11:34:59 pm
A pack of robot dogs is stuffed inside a self driving vehicle, gets delivered to the destination and unleashed. Amazon is probably pulling their hair out ,how come they could not think of such great idea

  https://twitter.com/ContiSafety/status/1082573906836406273
 

Isn't that very similar to some of the story elements in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash?
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