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Boston Dynamics' creepy robot dog is going up for sale
Fox News Flash top headlines for June 7 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Videos of Boston Dynamics' robots have been the stuff of both awe and inspiration, as well as nightmares. Now, it appears the robots will be doing more than just performing parkour or dancing around on YouTube. According to The Verge, who interviewed Boston Dynamics' CEO Marc Raibert at Amazon's Re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, Spot, the company's dog-like robot and arguably its cutest machine, will be available for purchase "within months" and certainly before the end of 2019.
Digital Optimization Isn't Digital Transformation
Depending on your answer, you may not even be pursuing digital transformation at all. Indeed, if you're pursuing new tech adoption for your company's benefit--to save time, improve processes, or avoid day-to-day time sucks like returning emails and sorting through sales leads--it's likely you're merely digitally optimizing your business, rather than transforming it. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is a far cry from Digital Transformation. So why does it matter? First, digital optimization is like grabbing the lowest-hanging fruit on the technological tree.
Students to use artificial intelligence to program self-driving cars
Students at the Pearl Technology/ Richwoods Township STEM Academy had the opportunity to learn from, and operate cars of the future. The program focuses in on autonomous 1/18th- scale cars developed by Amazon Web Services. The cars- called AWS DeepRacers– learn through rewards and students' controls. It's a platform that only some engineers and developers have had an opportunity to experience. "In my day we didn't have these opportunities, but when you see kids that are fifth through eighth grade actually teaching cars how to drive themselves and that their thought process can get wrapped around artificial intelligence, it's an amazing thing to watch," said Dave Johnson, President of Pearl Technology.