Winchell Chung ⚛🚀6d ago

And so it begins...

https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-dogs-quadruped-data-center-security-boston-dynamics-ghost-robotics-2026-3

Robot dogs are protecting data centers. Operators are seeing payoffs.

Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics are selling robot dogs to data center operators, providing perimeter security and inspection capabilities.

Business Insider
Show threadswope6d ago
@nyrath
Was this a scene in Snow Crash?
Show threadFredKiesche 🇺🇦6d ago
@swope @nyrath http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=536
Slamhound by William Gibson from Count Zero

Slamhound by William Gibson: An automated assassination device with a keen sense of smell. (Text quote, book citation included.)

Show threadJaime Robertson

@FredKiesche @swope @nyrath This was the first thing I thought of too. Just looked up the quote.

Though Bradbury beat Gibson and Stephenson to it by a few decades, with the Mechanical Hound in Fahrenheit 451.

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