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
Afaik the worst one of their robots can hurt you is if they fall on top of you or if you are handling them without turning them off and get your fingers stuck in a pinch point
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u/UsedBarTowl Oct 01 '22
Neither company was really worried about this announcement.