To be or not to be....

Robot dogs can now be brought as digital toys <cough cough> I mean pets for nearly 3000.00. Humanoids humans in the making, robot dogs...what next? Do we really want to live in a future world of cold hard steel all around us devoid of flesh and beautiful nature?


https://youtu.be/P-TPRIq3X6k?si=yHnE2oMj7uMItj0h

The first known robotic pet was a robot dog called Sparko, built by the American company Westinghouse in 1940. It never got sold due to poor public interest. The first robotic pets to be put on the market were Hasbro's Furby in 1998 and Sony's AIBO in 1999. Since then, robotic pets have grown increasingly advanced.

You can get a "robot dog" on Amazon for as little as fifteen bucks.

Real dogs sell for as little as fifty bucks to thousands for a pure bred with champion breeding.

Yeah but aren't those fifteen dollars robots made for kids? The one shown above is for adults, the domestic version of the military kind. The price dropping to a few hundreds in a couple of years, will see a demand for them. Great for those who want a robot dog without feeding it and taking it to the vet but imagine a world surrounded by robotic animals and humans!

I wouldn't mind having a robot house maid.

Happy little robot mutts
have been around, and sold
commercially, since the 1980s.

The early models yapped, did flips,
and we're often a waste of batteries.

Thanks for posting this. I find it disconcerting and amazing to see such sophistication for such a low price, starting at $1600. It highlights the technological advancements in robotics and manufacturing, it makes me wonder what else we shall see in the coming years. You are right the price will drop, they will probably offer them in kit form so you can build one your self, reducing prices further. I think if they were twice the current size they would be very intimidating, and given a good growling sound, terrifying. Maybe a possible use as a guard dog in banks.

Made in China, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Rn2R37bcI

If it can duck hunt and comes with a jump pack, air compressor and beer cooler I'm interested. Oh, if it's a sturdy enough unit I would like a 10000# winch and add a gun rack please

I had a robot dog once. It kept leaving little piles of nuts and bolts for me to clean up.

i saw in a news article today(whether its true or not i dno) they stated how the government had made robots that eat organisms as fuel, as long as they dont eat people/animals i think thats cool


https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/robots-that-eat-people/

Relax.

Chat Gpt now have a body!

Can see,think and hear!

Motowndowntown, your wish is fast becoming a reality.


AI is developing at such a rapid pace how's the world going to look 5 years from now?


https://youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw?si=keKXMigRY0Gtc0BZ

In the next few years they will be swarming all around us.



https://youtu.be/pLCM8a7YyTE

Interesting to hear the robots are already in use by some companies as security guards, and have been for years, independently patrolling premises as a nightwatchman would do. The police have some robots as well, but they did not expand on how they are used by them. Shades of ED209 I hope not.

What else could they be used for, other than what an easy web search will tell!

I thought this was interesting.

"Police Robots: Preventing Crime Or Just 'Security Theater'?"

"In 2014, the company Knightscope said it wanted to create a fleet of robots that would cruise through shopping malls, corporate campuses and other public spaces, collecting data and alerting law enforcement to trouble.

Nearly a decade later, one of the company's 5-foot-2-inch, 400-pound robots is working the graveyard shift, patrolling the Times Square subway station for the country's largest police department alongside a human police officer."

http://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/police-robots-preventing-crime-or-just-security-theater

Would of loved to see a video about the robot in action patrolling.

The pace of progress is frightening, with a new humanoid robot revealed somewhere in the world everyday...

China Ahead of the Rest of The World in Humanoid Robotics



https://youtube.com/shorts/Z8xYOaOFM7A?si=xUqoNVzFpxQGw-ll

that bot was taken off-line some time ago and is now a very expensive hat-rack.