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McMaster: Chinese quadruped robots in US are leaking data to China
“We've already heard about leaks that are happening with some of the quadrupeds that you're seeing in the United States and being back channeled back to China.”
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: 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: 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.”
McMaster: Human workers often skip assigned routine inspection tasks
“Humans weren't doing the task, even if they were tasked with it, they weren't actually doing it.”
McMaster: Labor replacement will inevitably be used as a robotics ROI metric
“There's going to be an element of labor replacement for this as a metric, because it's easy.”