Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics, so it makes sense, not that it's not an interesting story but it was the obvious end goal.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Do the workers get some of those cute BD dogs for emotional support considering they’re working 24 hour shifts?
Great. So, even if manufacturing does return to the USA – the jobs will not. As everyone predicted. What is the difference if robots have all the manufacturing jobs on US soil instead of foreigners in China? Correct. There is none. Except the company has avoided paying the tariff — whose only purpose was to “bring the jobs back”.
Quite simply we must boycott any company using robotics. The Trump tariffs are an insane policy, lowering America’s standing in the world, destroying the world economy (and there will be unexpected blow back for that too) and they should be immediately reversed.
Quite simply we must boycott any company using robotics
What? Robots aren't the problem. The problem is the stubborn refusal to accept that we are moving to a point where not everyone will have to work and that we will have to think about how we can move on from that
We’ve been on a trend of increasing automation for a long time, and that’s not going to change. Nor should it.
The fact that we can just look at this and just act like it's normal is wild, guess I shouldn't be surprised since it's 2025 but like...Boston Dynamics only had the dogs 10 years ago.