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Sarcos Robotics has received $10.5m in investment from Microsoft, Caterpillar and other backers. Salt Lake City-based Sarcos, which has offices near Microsoft in Redmond, was founded 25 years ago. It was acquired by Raytheon in 2007 before being bought back by a consortium led by its former president at Raytheon. Now, …

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  1. hplasm
    Terminator

    MS exosuit!

    This --->

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    1. John Bailey
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      Re: MS exosuit!

      I can see it now.

      Next Iron man movie plot.. After an ill advised update to Windows 10, Jarvis is deleted, and Tony Stark has to deal with Cortana just as the alien invasion starts.

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  2. Nolveys

    "Sarcos' Robot-as-a-Service offering, using Microsoft Cognitive Services, Azure IoT Suite, and Windows 10 IoT, creates a unique opportunity to fundamentally transform the safety and efficiency of many industrial tasks around the world,"

    Fundamentally transform them into what?

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    1. a_yank_lurker
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      Fundamentally transform them into what?

      BSOD

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      1. hplasm
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        Happy

        Re: Fundamentally transform them into what?

        BSOD

        Big Sack 'o' Dung?

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      2. Fungus Bob
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        Re: Fundamentally transform them into what?

        BullShit Of DOOOOOM!

        film at 11

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQYeqz_9c0

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        1. Chemical Bob
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          Re: Fundamentally transform them into what?

          Broken Stuff Of Dreams

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  3. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
    Mushroom

    Oh FFS!

    Really? MS think the way forward with industrial robots it to treat them as remote mainframe terminals and move all the "smarts" into the "cloud"? Robots as a service? What could possibly go wrong?

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  4. Avatar of They
    Mushroom

    It has a glorious future ahead of it under M$ ownership.

    Afterall they always do great things.

    Cough... Nokia... Cough...

    .... I must be getting a cold.

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  5. SeanC4S

    I don't think robotics will end up being a big money maker because the product cost is going to be exceptionally low.

    Cent per actuator robotics:

    http://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1605273113/video-1

    http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/09/21/1605273113.abstract

    Maybe the rechargeable battery will be the most expensive component.

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