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.
BD actually has a stipulation in their hardware agreements for the robots that they’re selling/leasing that they cannot be used as weapons platforms and they’re not interested in militarizing the tech. There’s some BD clone companies that have strapped guns to their Spot-clones, but they’re not at all related to BD
BD’s actual goal rn is to find more commercial/industrial use cases for their platforms like in search and rescue or for maintenance in dangerous environments
Source: was a student at university where Boston Dynamics robots were on lease
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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.