<div dir="ltr">This reminds me of the "concept cars" that Detroit is always bringing out and never making. I want to see them make something that can sell.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:26 AM <a href="mailto:arnieswap@gmail.com">arnieswap@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:arnieswap@gmail.com">arnieswap@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Current science fiction writers are so poorly educated. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:24 AM Sally Wiener Grotta <<a href="mailto:sally@sallywienergrotta.com" target="_blank">sally@sallywienergrotta.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>It's body/space perception and coordination is remarkable. Just yesterday, I was having lunch with three well established science fiction writers who were claiming that it would be a long time before robots would be able to take specific products off shelves in warehouses. I told them the technology already exists. The Parkour Atlas has elements that would be useful for those kind of tasks.</p>
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<div dir="ltr">The Boston Dynamics robots are great, but no one has found an application for them. Even Google couldn't. Now they're owned by Softbank. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 8:04 AM Christine Hall <<a href="mailto:christine@fossforce.com" target="_blank">christine@fossforce.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I had to keep reminding myself there's not a person in there.<br><br><a href="https://fossbytes.com/watch-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-do-parkour-like-a-pro/" target="_blank">https://fossbytes.com/watch-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-do-parkour-like-a-pro/</a><br><br> -- <br> Christine Hall<br> Publisher & Editor<br> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br><a href="http://fossforce.com" target="_blank">http://fossforce.com</a><br><br> -- <br> Ipg-smz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">Ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><a href="http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org" target="_blank">http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org</a></blockquote>
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