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granted, I find it somewhat amusing that the head of Boston Dynamics got invited to give a keynote at NEURIPS 2016 or 2017 and admitted than Spot the Dog didn't really use any learning...

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As a close follower of Boston Dynamics since my high-school years, I feel like in hindsight that was a good call, they've managed to progress everything else seemingly very well - which now gives them a head-start for an industry that surpasses any amount of money Boston Dynamics could ever get by many times. The data and capabilities around data would unlikely have brought similar scale of innovation, as other companies could now come up with.

Now instead, they're ahead of end2end integration of their section of robotics - especially with actual business customers that gave them a great head-start in figuring out how to integrate them as a product.

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