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Ok-Birthday-1987 t1_j4xc4jt wrote

Not in this lifetime or the next. It's a scam. Boston dynamics will court the military industrial complex, they don't have the capacity to make an army of "construction" bots. Nor does the world have capacity for this: it would take the copper, lithium, etc of several earths to provide enough electric vehicles for the current ICE demand. This estimation doesn't even account for these monstrosities. Electric vehicles exist to save the auto industry, not the planet. I have been to Boston Dynamics' HQ in Waltham, MA, it is conveniently located next door to Qinetic which makes unmanned aerial systems for the DOD complete with a giant flag with insignia from every branch of US Military.

Those things are being built for our tax dollars to be spent on against our best interests, not to make our lives better or easier. Sure as hell hope we don't get a chance to trash the rest of the universe seeing what we are actively doing to this planet. IIRC The BPD or Staties have a bunch of those dog robots. For a compelling reason I'm not sure exists other than bilking taxpayers.

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