These would be great for locations where you know people aren't going to screw with it. Such as in large businesses or government facilities. They could be used to deliver food or documents or mail or tools.

Consider say you have to send your device to IT for repair. In a huge company campus it could be 40 min round trip just to drop off your laptop. You create a ticket, IT dispatches the bot with your new laptop, which shows up at your office. You take out the new laptop, put in the old laptop and it drives off back to IT.

It was never going to work out in public. Too many people who can screw with it, or other ways it can go wrong.

When you were writing that did you sincerely believe you were contributing to the zeitgeist? Or that it was a hot take? That's like saying McDonald's sells Big Macs. Factual, but not contributing to any conversation.

They're just going to get rid of human workers in their warehouses instead of paying a liveable wage, and circumvent unionization. That's the whole point of this. It'll just put more money into Bezos' pockets.

ETA: sorry this is controversial. Let me clarify. I don't think it's a bad idea to automate things like that, but there is a labor dispute going on and I'm just pointing out that the reason behind pulling them off the market is to terminate all warehouse workers instead of allowing them to unionize and negotiate better working conditions.

Hopefully Amazon will sell them on.

There are food delivery robots roaming towns in the UK, so they could buy them up?

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/food-delivery-robots-from-starship-technologies-now-deliveri-9254618/.

Yeah, I can't imagine too many people in the company thought it would ever be street safe. Where Amazon will make its money is selling these things to warehouses or closed work zones like movie sets and construction sites.

Edit: I would argue the street tests were for publicity.

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Mount a fridge on it

I find it extremely frustrating to read these technology articles just to find out I can’t test or see it for myself. I’d be very interested in getting a scan like this.

I’m sure it can handle deliveries from the fridge to the couch

I wouldn't mind buying one of the robots if they're being put out to pasture

WHAT apple not inventing new technologies... mild shock

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Yes I also watched the Hulu drama.

And with just one drop of blood we’ll be able to run every test imaginable.

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> The transistor count has increased, but only from 15 billion to 16 billion – a much smaller jump than usual.

Only a billion more transistors. Sure sounds like a tweak to me. 🙄

the small vessels in the retina do show signs of cardiovascular disease earlier than many of the bigger vessels. Optometrists and ophthalmologists are trained to look for “copper wiring” and “silver wiring” and tortuousity, and a lot of medical centers will do “tele-ophthalmology” for screening retinal exams for diabetic patients where a tech will take a picture of the back of your eye and an ophthalmologist will review it later.

The advantage of this software is presumably that the algorithm will be able to pick up subtle signs and translate it into a predictive model for heart disease, and to do it more quickly/practically than having an ophthalmologist review every image.

Cue deep monotone voice and black turtleneck

I can look into your eye and predict your risk of heart disease in 5 seconds or less. The time frame is not the interesting thing here, but rather the accuracy.

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more like that

Always has been.

That’s why I’m waiting for iPhone 15 or later.

I could look in your eye and predict your chance of heart disease too.

Android without google apps. That means you'll not need a google account, it won't have play store, gmail, chrome, or google services.