'Cujo' and 'Spot' won't be down for breakfast

[hpman66]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...jo-Spot-deemed-loud-help-soldiers-battle.html
Google's robot soldier dogs are booted out by the US Marines: 'Cujo' and 'Spot' deemed too loud to help troops in battle
By MARK PRIGG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:42 EST, 29 December 2015 | UPDATED: 14:08 EST, 29 December 2015

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Another gazillion-dollar military-industrial boondoggle with zero real-world application.

 

[mohavesam]

"Dog"??? Its as big as a horse!

Now why in the world do I suspect that Boston Dynamics knew this would never be accepted when they applied for the $2M tax money grant?

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Paid for a whole bunch of tech research and development they can use elsewhere.

 

[hpman66]

Why don't they just fly their kit in by drone?? The drone would be just as loud/noisy as "Cujo" and "Spot" and could also give away their position just as easily---possibly at a much cheaper cost. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Ale-8(1)]

The explosion of drone technology may have been a contributor to the demise of the "dogs". Drones have "matured" very rapidly whereas the "dogs" have been under development for quite a few years.

Drone development has been driven by marketing opportunities for them as toys . . . big $$$$$$$ NOW!

The "dogs" haven't really been accelerated because the "team" was just burning money off the gummnt teat.

Watch private industry capitalize on the application of drones to the military uses.

 

[GP100]

Well, there goes another flush of the toilet bowl, known as the taxpayer money.

 

[blume357]

Eisenhower said it best, "Beware of the Military Industrial Complex."

 

[GP100]

Eisenhower said it best, "Beware of the Military Industrial Complex."

Very true.

 

[hpman66]

Eisenhower said it best, "Beware of the Military Industrial Complex."

Eisenhower also said:
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

"Only Americans can hurt America."

"I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States."(Please remember this was back in 1960!!!)

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Santa's terrifying little helpers: The military robots transformed into sleigh-pulling reindeer after being developed to carry heavy equipment on the battlefield

.'Robot reindeer' lead Santa's sleigh in Boston Dynamics Christmas video
.The black four-legged machines are decorated with antlers and tinsel
.Company set up in 1992 and provides US Army with technology

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3371369/Boston-Dynamics-reveals-Santa-s-robot-reindeer.html