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This gives me Black Mirror-fueled nightmares... not least because those videos suggest that a Black Mirror scenario may not be that far off and what probably saves us for now is battery capacity.
What's the Black Mirror scenario?
there ought to be plenty of money in this for delivering explosive payloads... (Edit: although come to think of it, in the animal world, jump height is much more constrained by 9,81 m/s2 than by body size)
Artillery exists. Delivering explosive payloads is a solved problem. Detecting humans is a solved problem. The hard part is reliably distinguishing enemy solders from friendly soldiers or civilians.
These could swarm in the back door.
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What's the Black Mirror scenario?
General dystopian outcomes. After world powers harness robotic armies, revolts will no longer be possible and citizens will be permanently enslaved and must succumb to whatever oppressions are put on them.
there ought to be plenty of money in this for delivering explosive payloads... (Edit: although come to think of it, in the animal world, jump height is much more constrained by 9,81 m/s2 than by body size)
Physics constrains jump height to be about a few meters regardless of size. The basic problem is that the total energy required scales with mass, but the total energy available also scales with mass. The two end up cancelling out and you get a maximum jump height that is independent of size. What really matters is the energy density of your storage medium, which is the same to an order of magnitude for any system bas…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHXwTa5-DA
(But for all but extreme designs I fully agree with you)
You get a chuckle before you die
This gives me Black Mirror-fueled nightmares... not least because those videos suggest that a Black Mirror scenario may not be that far off and what probably saves us for now is battery capacity.
What's the Black Mirror scenario?
If you watch it then those research legged robots will look rather more sinister... or maybe it's just me. That episode really stuck with me.
As a reminder: CMU and its robotics program is intimately associated with the US Department of Defense, and although there are certainly civilian applications for this technology, one of the most likely short-term applications is improving legged drones for battlefield deployment (often, it should be said, in humanitarian roles, including search and rescue, or support roles, such as ammo, food, and water resupply, bu…
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What's the Black Mirror scenario?
Oh, right. There is a Black Mirror episode in which dog-like AI robots are hunting down humans [1] If you watch it then those research legged robots will look rather more sinister... or maybe it's just me. That episode really stuck with me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)