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Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes

news.sky.com Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes

The robot - named Aurora - can climb rocks, go up stairs and make dance-like movements while flashing green lights. These tactics will be used to scare away wildlife.

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That's just a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics with a coat of paint.

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Damn, things must be getting pretty bleak if even birds are striking and we're using headless robot dogs to union-bust them..!

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"Bird" will change to "union" soon

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- And then it won’t know the difference between a human and a regular street-clothed person and it will be “kill all humans”
  
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  Promise??
  
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  (except Fry)
  
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Did they have to make it look just like the one in Black Mirror?

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- That is just the form factor for quadraped robots now. Boston Dynamics had them before black mirror.
  
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  I know how that word is meant to be pronounced, but it is very difficult not to think the other.
  
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I am predicting less bird strikes and more headless, dog-sized robot strikes.

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There should be a word for the frustration of seeing the very obvious inevitability, but being unable to do anything about it.

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- Big sad
  
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We know how this might end thanks to Black Mirror.

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Giving more precedence that birds aren’t real. Gotta fight tech with tech! 😉

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TSA also has a limbless dog-sized robot nose at the security checkpoints.

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