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ialyos | 5 years ago

Agreed.

Robots are very hard, and Boston Dynamics has been around for almost 40 years and still isn't anywhere close to making a lot of money.

Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.

Fwiw I interviewed with BD a few years ago, and am focusing on robotics, so I'd like the opposite to be true

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WhompingWindows|5 years ago

Computation existed for more than 40 years before apps started making a ton of money on it. If BD develops robotic platform-"workers" that can be trained in 5 seconds to do any manual labor, that's the new "app" that one would be making money off of in the future.

tibiahurried|5 years ago

> Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.

This thinking will never take humans on Mars! Someone must work on hard, expensive problems.

Human race does won't move forward with a chat but with the hard work of scientist, engineers etc ...

jskajakzkjx|5 years ago

A lot of the hard work of scientists and engineers is enabled by chats, though.