$84,000 Boston Dynamics robot washes a lioness, sparks animal-intervention debate
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-12
An $84,000 robot from Boston Dynamics and Harvard professors was filmed washing a lioness at an Indian zoo. It's pitched for endangered-animal care — AI perception monitors movement, posture, breathing and behavior to detect stress, injury or illness early — though the quoter argues turning machines into fake caretakers for nature is hubris.
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