I welcome our new robot overlords

[Aeson]

Robot dog manages flock of sheep. Video sparks uneasy thoughts among people

The video has sparked varied reactions among people.

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[Zardnaar]

American's invent movies about Terminators.

New Zealand invents a robot sheep dog.

Baaa.

 

[Dioltach]

I've been saying for years that the Rise of the Machines has already begun. But they're not sending Terminators to kill us one by one. Instead, they're deliberately jamming printers, slowing down Internet connections, losing files and generally causing annoyances that are slowly but surely killing us all through high blood pressure.

 

[Aeson]

I just hope I can upload myself into the Matrix before it happens.

 

[Umbran]

American's invent movies about Terminators.

New Zealand invents a robot sheep dog.

And by "invents" you mean, "takes a Boston Dynamics machine, and attempts to use it for this purpose".

All this discussion of robots taking over, and.. well.. in that video we see the robot walking around, performing no work that we can see. The only jobs at risk from this are in upper management positions. :/

 

[trappedslider]

we all know this is what will happen

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

All this discussion of robots taking over, and.. well.. in that video we see the robot walking around, performing no work that we can see. The only jobs at risk from this are in upper management positions. :/

Do you realize what will happen if tens of thousands of Border Collies and Aussie Shepherds suddenly become unemployed?

There will be order in the streets! There will not be enough toys...or arms to throw them!

 

[Zardnaar]

And by "invents" you mean, "takes a Boston Dynamics machine, and attempts to use it for this purpose".

All this discussion of robots taking over, and.. well.. in that video we see the robot walking around, performing no work that we can see. The only jobs at risk from this are in upper management positions. :/

There's a lot of sheep jokes that get directed this way.

Some border Collies fail at sheep dogging. They end up as pets in city.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tha

Some border Collies fail at sheep dogging. They end up as pets in city.

That would describe a couple of the BCs we’ve had over the decades.

At least one of the breeders we bought from divided her puppies into 3 categories: herders, show dogs and pets. We always aimed for pets, but even a couple of those might have been up to the task of handling small flocks- especially our second dog.

(OTOH, at least 3 of them would have lost their damn minds.)

 

[Zardnaar]

Tha

That would describe a couple of the BCs we’ve had over the decades.

At least one of the breeders we bought from divided her puppies into 3 categories: herders, show dogs and pets. We always aimed for pets, but even a couple of those might have been up to the task of handling small flocks- especially our second dog.

(OTOH, at least 3 of them would have lost their damn minds.)

I should rephrase that to the lucky ones ended up as pets in city.

They made a cartoon here in the 80s called Footrot Flats.

The star is a border collie named dog. He's scared of the farm cat named Horse.

This is Horse.


Dogs in that clip.

Footrot Flats was popular here in the 80s/90s. Series or cartoon compilations.