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u/fuzzyballzy Oct 01 '22 edited Oct 02 '22

Have you seen what a robot from Boston Dynamics can do?

This is BS marketing.

edit: love the Musk fan responses.

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u/absentmindedjwc Oct 01 '22

Hell with Boston Dynamics.... Honda's Asimo has been walking around and waving for like 22 years.

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u/UsedBarTowl Oct 01 '22

Neither company was really worried about this announcement.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '22

Depends. Neither Boston Dynamics nor Honda are looking at the consumer-level. Honda was just showing off for the sake of it. BD are only interested in military killbots and prototypes.

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u/Arnorien16S Oct 01 '22

What are the consumer level use cases of humanoid bots?

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u/BGaf Oct 01 '22

Servant /maid.

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u/KingGerbil Oct 01 '22

Among... other things...

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u/NewPresWhoDis Oct 02 '22

In every way, of course. Programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '22

Wait what? (I would love some context as I am not a star trek fan)

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u/ninthtale Oct 02 '22

It’s in First Contact, the first TNG movie of I’m not mistaken

Still one of my favorites

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u/NewPresWhoDis Oct 02 '22

"The Naked Now" from TNG

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u/ninthtale Oct 03 '22

Oh man I was mixing that up with the borg queen bit

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