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We’ve had plenty of time to get used to our robot overlords and Boston Dynamics is helping us get there. This week we talk about the company’s addition of a door-opening arm to its SpotMini robot. It’s not spooky at all.
We then switch gears and discuss Facebook’s Messenger for Kids. Is it good, bad or the company’s master plan to get every last human being with a smartphone on the platform.
Your hosts: Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet
Producer: Christopher Gates
Executive producer: Yashad Kulkarni
Linkage:
Boston Dynamics CEO at Disrupt SF 2016
BigDog robot designed for DARPA by Boston Dynamics in 2008
Facebook Messenger for Kids (announcement)
Why a TechCrunch writer installed Facebook Messenger for Kids
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