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Marines Test Fire Robot Dog Armed with Rocket Launcher
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#32Won't be long now before we're reading a post about a robot dog with a suicide vest taking out a target softer than an armored vehicle.
The article neglects to mention that shipping is $1000, according to the Unitree website.
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#33As a human, this looks terrifying. Imagine being attacked by robot dogs. Now imagine being attacked by robot dogs that have rocket launchers! Straight out of a Fast & Furious movie. You can(!) make this shit up. But as a person in tech, where all my values are directed towards "making a better world"... this also goes against every ideal we have. Unless you count living in a world where we have the ability to extermi…
> this also goes against every ideal we have Counterexample: https://www.wjcl.com/article/officers-kill-man-who-killed-a-... And there are countless other actual police dogs hurt or killed by violent offenders. Sending actual dogs in to snoop out bad guys, who then shoot the police dog, sadly happens. Send in a robot with a rocket launcher, the bad guy is like oh fuck this bad guy nonsense, and the robot dog just has…
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#34ok thats cool.I was just playing with one of these last night.
The owners were making behave like a playful puppy and holy hell was it agile and fun to play with.
it sat up and begged, it jumped back and forth like a puppy that wants to play would do... it rolled over and flipped itself back onto its feet.
amazing tech with a very short battery life.
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#35As a human, this looks terrifying. Imagine being attacked by robot dogs. Now imagine being attacked by robot dogs that have rocket launchers! Straight out of a Fast & Furious movie. You can(!) make this shit up. But as a person in tech, where all my values are directed towards "making a better world"... this also goes against every ideal we have. Unless you count living in a world where we have the ability to extermi…
> this also goes against every ideal we have Counterexample: https://www.wjcl.com/article/officers-kill-man-who-killed-a-... And there are countless other actual police dogs hurt or killed by violent offenders. Sending actual dogs in to snoop out bad guys, who then shoot the police dog, sadly happens. Send in a robot with a rocket launcher, the bad guy is like oh fuck this bad guy nonsense, and the robot dog just has…
> who then shoot the police dog
What would you expect them to do? Play fetch with it?
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#36As a human, this looks terrifying. Imagine being attacked by robot dogs. Now imagine being attacked by robot dogs that have rocket launchers! Straight out of a Fast & Furious movie. You can(!) make this shit up. But as a person in tech, where all my values are directed towards "making a better world"... this also goes against every ideal we have. Unless you count living in a world where we have the ability to extermi…
I mean tanks are machines. Why can’t you have a remote controlled anti tank device.
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#38When I first saw Boston Dynamic's Atlas I thought "I wonder when will they fit a firearm to that". I was hoping my first thought was out of my cynism or bad sense of humour...
A few more years of development and it will be capable of going out and getting its own weapons.
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#39As a human, this looks terrifying. Imagine being attacked by robot dogs. Now imagine being attacked by robot dogs that have rocket launchers! Straight out of a Fast & Furious movie. You can(!) make this shit up. But as a person in tech, where all my values are directed towards "making a better world"... this also goes against every ideal we have. Unless you count living in a world where we have the ability to extermi…
To even think that robot dogs would "attack" you in the same sense a real dog would is the funniest thing to me. Of course a robot dog would use missiles, guns, lasers, chemical spray, etc.
lol nah it should use a mechanical mouth with some insane hydraulic clamping force. And claws, why not give it some stainless razor wire claws while we're at it.
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#40As a human, this looks terrifying. Imagine being attacked by robot dogs. Now imagine being attacked by robot dogs that have rocket launchers! Straight out of a Fast & Furious movie. You can(!) make this shit up. But as a person in tech, where all my values are directed towards "making a better world"... this also goes against every ideal we have. Unless you count living in a world where we have the ability to extermi…
But this is the direction warfare is going, whether we like it or not. It started the first time anyone used a machine as a weapon. The mechanized warfare of the first half of the 20th century was very scary to people, and was very efficient at killing, but now we all look at it as the norm. The same will happen with this, and this is just a continuation of the same process.
Ukraine using cardboard drones to blow up Russian tanks, Hamas using quads to hit targets. Eventually all warfare will be done this way, and every actor will have access to autonomous technologies.
I argue it is a good thing; the goal in warfare is to negate the enemy's ability to continue their campaign, strategically as well as economically. Historically, manpower was the source of economic production as well as strategic advantage, so warfare focused on killing people. In a world where the strategic and economic targets are machinery rather than people, the number of human casualties decreases. Target automated factories and caches of autonomous weapons, force surrender, less people die.
It also democratizes access to force, no more will the ability to establish sovereignty be limited to those will large populations. It levels the playing field, like firearms did, and reduces the ability for despots to concentrate power. It is the great equalizer 2.0.
Of course, during the process of normalization of fully mechanized warfare, there will be asymmetry and people will die. But I believe the end result of this is a more peaceful world.