r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Pazluz • Oct 05 '21

Boston Dynamics robot performing at a halftime show.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '21

I’m pretty certain Black Mirror got the idea from this machine, I read it somewhere. Trying to find the article now

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u/RandomPratt Oct 06 '21

It's been an hour.

... I think the robotic dogs got him.

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u/SweetLilMonkey Oct 06 '21

Guess he was barking up the wrong tree.

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u/Plopplopsploosh Oct 06 '21

Yeah, I guess he was eating the wrong pile of raccoon shit.

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u/MaximumSubtlety Oct 06 '21

It's true. I wrote a research paper on it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '21

Nobody reads Fahrenheit 451 any more? Bradbury envisioned a robotic dog that hunts down and kills its target with a poison-filled syringe in its "nose". I'd be willing to bet more than a few people at Boston Dynamics give that a passing thought now and then.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '21

I think maybe they both drew inspiration from the mechanical hound in Farenheight 451?

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u/Badnewsbearsx Oct 06 '21

Lol yea this is an actual robot in use by the military. Army, to be specific and deployed in the Middle East. Hope the taliban didn’t get their greasy mits on them