Have you seen the BEAR from Vecna Technologies?
I have a couple things to say:
1. Why are we teaching incredibly strong, agile robots how to open doors, move bombs and place humans on examination tables for other robots to experiment on them?
2. Didn’t the owners of Vecna Robotics know that Vecna is actually one of Advanced Dungeon &Dragons’ really REALLY bad bad-guys?? Honestly, he’s one of the worst:
So I ask you: How on earth are we supposed to trust robots in our house if THESE are the robots we’re actually developing??
These’ll probably be used by the military for bomb disposal and getting into radioactive/dangerous enviroments.
On the topic of military robots, have you seen little dog?
http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_littledog.html
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQsRPJ1dYw
although in the related vids there was a vid of big dog with weapons…
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Vecna Technologies? Really? REALLY? Wow. Sounds a lot like having a, “Strahd Technologies”, or, “Bane Technologies”.