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
what could possibly go wrong!
The fully automated genocide of the working class… sparing only the hottest of us for sex slavery.
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.
Well, I guess it’s a prototype. Also guessing they’ll soon start murdering people like this. Beautiful world we live in.
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.
“Just like in the treats.”
