Why Your Cloud Data is Now Guarded by Robot Dogs

TL;DR: Data centers are quietly buying up fleets of Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics quadruped dogs to handle security and routine inspections.

Here is a wild thought. The physical servers storing your emails are now being guarded by robotic dogs.

Data center operators have started buying up quadruped robots from Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics in droves. They do perimeter security. They run thermal scans on server racks. They never sleep, and they certainly do not need coffee breaks.

This is exactly the kind of boring but highly valuable use case that robotics companies have been chasing. You do not need a robot doing backflips. You just need one that can walk a perimeter a thousand times without complaining. That is where the real money is.

Source: Business Insider

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