A Dog’s Life?
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Hmmm...there's gotta be somebody here on MFK who will be watching this story and its followups closely...just waiting for robodog to maul or electrocute somebody, or maybe leak oil on their owner or otherwise misbehave.
Now, who could that be...?
Now, who could that be...?
Hello; I stopped the video when I saw it is over 20 minutes. I understand the dig at me, but this is not really a dog. A thing is any bad behavior other than a genuine malfunction will be directly the owner/operator's fault.
I started a movie a couple years ago when I first got a ROKU box. It was about a robot dog. A thing was the AI robot dog was made in the film made to act just like a real dog for some reason. It was not even a real physical robot.
A question I ask is why a robot with four legs make folks think of a dog at all. Does not look like a dog to me. Could be a badger, a rat, a pig or most anything with four legs. My first guess as to why it was called a robot dog is in hopes we will like or at least accept it because we like and accept dogs. If the functions of the legs & balance become good enough someone will strap a machine gun on one.
I started a movie a couple years ago when I first got a ROKU box. It was about a robot dog. A thing was the AI robot dog was made in the film made to act just like a real dog for some reason. It was not even a real physical robot.
A question I ask is why a robot with four legs make folks think of a dog at all. Does not look like a dog to me. Could be a badger, a rat, a pig or most anything with four legs. My first guess as to why it was called a robot dog is in hopes we will like or at least accept it because we like and accept dogs. If the functions of the legs & balance become good enough someone will strap a machine gun on one.
Not a dig at all, just a light-hearted poke in the ribs at most.
There are a number of scifi anthology series on streaming TV, and one of them...I think it might be Black Mirror, but not sure...featured an episode set in a near-future wartorn world in which the protagonists are being hunted and harried by four-legged armed and armoured robots that they refer to as "dogs". The use of the term seemed completely believable; sure, the robots resembled dogs no more than any other 4-legged animals but our familiarity with canines likely would make us think of them first when looking for a colloquial name for such creations.
There are a number of scifi anthology series on streaming TV, and one of them...I think it might be Black Mirror, but not sure...featured an episode set in a near-future wartorn world in which the protagonists are being hunted and harried by four-legged armed and armoured robots that they refer to as "dogs". The use of the term seemed completely believable; sure, the robots resembled dogs no more than any other 4-legged animals but our familiarity with canines likely would make us think of them first when looking for a colloquial name for such creations.