I know it’s the correct way to word it, but this sounds like rifles on robotic arms mounted on real dogs
some style guides are really dumb and consider “a b-c d” to be “(a b)-(c d)”, as if a hyphen is less tightly binding than a space
Truly a weapon to surpass metal gear!
Oh thank God, I misunderstood and was shocked by the barbarism.
I recently visited the Boston Museum of Science where they have one of the Boston Dynamics robodogs on display, and they did a live demo with q&a. All I could think of the whole time was that one black mirror episode…
the tracking darts that embed in your body are nice and good
This was inevitable. I was imagining Ukrainians would love to have a tool like this to remotely walk up and clear trenches.
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Anyone actually surprised? It was clear from the get go that this was where these bots were headed…
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So, how soon is it until they cram ChatGPT, Tensorflow, and a few others into this thing and actually make a Terminator?
Also, let me know if anyone sees any naked dudes crawl out of some lightning balls.
The continued aggressive sheer will of the US government to take every cautionary tale ever written and make it reality.
God, this is such worthless doomer shit. Oh fucking no, the military can reduce lives lost in times of war. T H E H U M A N I T Y!
It’s like you want Russia to walk over eastern Europe using 50 year olds weapons.
What vacuum said.
We have reached the final frontier of pussies making machines to destroy their “enemies” machines… and unarmed civilians.
I guarantee you the US is not going to send these robots to Russia.
They are going to deploy them on impoverished people and on the boarders to murder immigrants.
And then inevitably into cities that are protesting Fascism.
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Its own lives, so it’s not about humanity, it’s about arming yourself.
But, of course, nothing that ominous in this either.
Here’s another cautionary tale.
DRONE | Animated short film about drones, AI, and live-streaming on YouTube
Only thing shocking about this is that it took this long. Any drone capable of carrying a weapon was going to get one. I mean, look at Ukraine right now. Consumer drones with soda bottle improvised explosives and cardboard drones. I can see a future where most warfare is drone vs drone, to see who can hit the other’s supply lines / storage first.
The way Russia’s turtling with illegal mines, drones are basically one of the only ways to attack without taking massive losses while also moving slowly and being sitting ducks for artillery.
The future will never be about drone vs drone, as no one cares about the drones. They have to hit where it hurts, which is human life.
Best case scenario, wars will be fought over drone command centres. Much more probably drones will be used to increase civilian suffering to end the wars.
If I were a dog, or the creator of a dog, I would say:
This beast is such an insult!
Totally stiff in the spine, stamping worse than a cow on dope, and that stiff body must stay horizontally at all times.
What a gross misconstruction.
Anyone who’s played The Division knows the Black Tusks did this years ago
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Well, yeah. That was the goal of creating all of these.
Hell, Boston Dynamics was originally funded heavily by DARPA. BigDog, AlphaDog, LittleDog, and LS3 were all funded by DARPA and designed for military use.
This is old anyway. They were strapping guns to the ghost robotics dogs as far back as 2021. https://www.popsci.com/technology/ghost-robotics-robot-dog-gun-lethal/
Absolutely fantastic stuff here.
Anyone still remembers when they said they would never use dog robots for weapon/war purposes? I do. Things always age like milk and it’s unsurprising.
Boston Dynamics said that, and they have stuck to that commitment. IIRC it’s even in the contract when you buy a robot from them that you will not equip it with a weapon.
This article is about Ghost Robotics, which has never made such a commitment. They are known to supply gun-equipped robots to governments at all levels.
I hear you can distract it by throwing some batteries at it.
Who’s a good boy?
I’m waiting for them to unleash Metal Gear
