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McMaster: Weaponizing robots is a distraction from Boston Dynamics' core focus
“For what we're trying to do right now in industrial use cases, it's a distraction for our business.”
Fankhauser: ANYbotics signed an open letter with Boston Dynamics opposing robot weaponization
“Four years ago, we wrote a letter together with our friends at Boston Dynamics and others, right, who condemned the weaponization Of robots for exactly that reason, that as engineers, we don't want to see it being used, and we think it's just dangerous and ris…”
McMaster: Spot is the most deployed mobile autonomous robot on Earth
“It is the it is the mobile autonomous robot that's used more than any other on the planet right now.”
Boston Dynamics: Atlas humanoid robot autonomously swaps its own batteries
“No Atlas does it itself. So Atlas will have two batteries, so it turns its torso around, and you replace one and put it with the other one, it always has a backup.”
Boston Dynamics: Spot robot achieves over 3,000 hours between human interventions
“We think about in terms of mean time between intervention, and we're at over 3000 hours.”
Boston Dynamics will likely offer Atlas as robot-as-a-service
“We'll be doing a, probably a robot as a service model, likely with Atlas.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics splits robot compute between onboard physical control and cloud reasoning
“We think about two brains, right? It's my simplified version of telling the stories. There's two brains. There's the brain that controls the physicality of the robot, which is what Boston Dynamics is known for. You know, the dynamic movement, reliability, the …”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics' Spot robot costs $100k to $300k fully loaded
“Ranges anywhere between, you know, a 100,000 dollars for the base robot, all the way up to 300,000 when we're fully loaded with services, integration deployed.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics is focused on real-world deployment, not R&D
“Yeah, we are big on deploying robots, so it's no longer an AI lab. It's not a research and development company anymore. We're now focused on real world deployment.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics has over 500 customers across 46 countries
“At this point we have over 500 customers, over 46 countries.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics focuses on labor augmentation over replacement for Spot
“We haven't necessarily looked at labor replacement for a spot. While, while that is a metric you might look at, we thought about, you know, how do we bring spots in there to augment human labor?”
McMaster: Industrial robotics customers require an ROI under two years
“And customers need to see your ROI in under two years.”
Brin: Google sold robotics startups because AI software lagged behind hardware
“I mean, I think we've you know, acquired and later sold like five or so robotics companies and you know, Boston being one of them. I guess if I look back on it, we built the hardware. We also had this more recently. We built out everyday robotics internally, a…”