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		finnw on July 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil a new humanoid ro... > Thousands are in Iraq and Afghanistan Those are not humanoid.

robotresearcher on July 12, 2013 [–]

Right, but the grandparent suggested that we'd see such robots in police applications before military. I'm asking why he thinks this is so. We are not seeing this with the non-humanoids.

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