This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 12)

Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Robot Dog Goes on Sale in 2019 Stephen Shankland CNET "The company has 10 SpotMini prototypes now and will work with manufacturing partners to build 100 this year, said company co-founder and President Marc Raibert at a TechCrunch robotics conference Friday. 'That's a prelude to getting into a higher rate of production' in anticipation of sales next year, he said. Made In Space Wins NASA Contract for Next-Gen'Vulcan' Manufacturing System Mike Wall Space.com "'The Vulcan hybrid manufacturing system allows for flexible augmentation and creation of metallic components on demand with high precision,' Mike Snyder, Made In Space chief engineer and principal investigator, said in a statement. Duplex Shows Google Failing at Ethical and Creative AI Design Natasha Lomas TechCrunch "But while the home crowd cheered enthusiastically at how capable Google had seemingly made its prototype robot caller--with Pichai going on to sketch a grand vision of the AI saving people and businesses time--the episode is worryingly suggestive of a company that views ethics as an after-the-fact consideration. One it does not allow to trouble the trajectory of its engineering ingenuity."