• frauddogg [they/them, null/void]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    And this is why as soon as Boston Dynamics said no to the government, suspiciously, a company named Ghost Dynamics spun up with practically the exact same frames

    If this is what robotics is going to be used for I think a lot more roboticists need their hands chopped off at the wrists

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      Israel has already been doing this in Gaza, but with airstrikes. Giving a robot the ability to pull the trigger is barely different to air-striking buildings based on statistical modelling the likelihood that terrorists are inside as your only form of “intelligence” — especially when you don’t care about civilian casualties and have already proven to shoot first and not even bother asking questions later.

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    They strapped an m4 on some servos on a robot dog with a rangefinder camera on top.

    I would have expectedly a gun designed for the dog like some tank turret. This is less impressive than expected.

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        But Boston dynamics promised it was going to have a little barrel of whiskey around its neck and it would go find avalanche survivors!

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      Cheaper than a ground up design. But I think you can start the clock until someone uses a grinder and cuts the gun right off.

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