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(86,005 posts)
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 01:19 PM Jul 2022

First the Oohs and Aahs, then the Running and Screaming

Sean Chiplock @sonicmega Jul 20
All the people who laughed off the “worrywarts” years ago for freaking out about the Funny Dancing Robot Dogs (tm) should be forced to watch this video once a day for the remainder of the year.



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First the Oohs and Aahs, then the Running and Screaming (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2022 OP
Bad doggie and very bad aim MagickMuffin Jul 2022 #1
Let the robot dogs fight each other. Going to Canada Jul 2022 #26
One can "ooh and ahh" at the tech without being oblivious to the obvious... Silent3 Jul 2022 #2
This Hekate Jul 2022 #11
What could go wrong? Liberal In Texas Jul 2022 #3
Send them Putin's home and office Sky Jewels Jul 2022 #8
God, that is scary Trailrider1951 Jul 2022 #4
Absolute proof that... 2naSalit Jul 2022 #5
Darpa imitating Art? Brenda Jul 2022 #6
SCARY. And they never get tired, can pursue all day. brush Jul 2022 #7
No battery charge lasts forever. nt Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #13
Not forever, but long enough to outlast humans. brush Jul 2022 #16
90 minutes with a 2 hour recharge time. nt Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #18
Can you run for 90 minutes straight? brush Jul 2022 #20
Doubt it but I'm also not sure it can run for 90 minutes. Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #21
Let's just agree that we don't want one coming after us. brush Jul 2022 #24
Or a very primitive homegirl Jul 2022 #17
Just like those things in montanacowboy Jul 2022 #9
That reminds me of a Black Mirror episode geardaddy Jul 2022 #10
+1 n/t Victor_c3 Jul 2022 #22
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war Hekate Jul 2022 #12
Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against LudwigPastorius Jul 2022 #14
Yikes! Who let the dogs out? Higherarky Jul 2022 #15
Also available at extra cost is the airborne modular system. Marcuse Jul 2022 #19
Humans are a pathetic species that probably should not and PufPuf23 Jul 2022 #23
If that scares you, wait for the cat version of it packman Jul 2022 #25
Is this fully autonomous, or a remotely controlled drone? NickB79 Jul 2022 #27
Send them into the NRA headquarters and The Firearm Industry Trade Association home office. Ford_Prefect Jul 2022 #28
If a few of them . . . . AverageOldGuy Jul 2022 #29

MagickMuffin

(15,958 posts)
1. Bad doggie and very bad aim
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 01:24 PM
Jul 2022


I don't like guns in the hands of emotionally mentally deranged humans or dogs living or robotic.


Silent3

(15,281 posts)
2. One can "ooh and ahh" at the tech without being oblivious to the obvious...
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 01:27 PM
Jul 2022

...potential military applications.

I'm sure there must have been some people who "laughed off the 'worrywarts'", but I doubt that many people who ooh-ed and ahh-ed were blithely unaware of the non-cute, non-dancing possibilities.

Trailrider1951

(3,415 posts)
4. God, that is scary
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 01:29 PM
Jul 2022

Where are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics? I guess robotics are in the hands of the sociopaths these days

Brenda

(1,072 posts)
6. Darpa imitating Art?
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 01:45 PM
Jul 2022

Looks like the dog aliens in the 2019 War of the Worlds Epix series with Gabriel Byrne.



Oh, I see that Boston Dynamics did create both the dog-aliens and the dogs-of-war.

“That [organic element] side of it came from the [series] writer Howard Overman, and we were left to develop it as a visual element,” says “War of the Worlds” production designer Richard Bullock of the alien creatures, which look like a cross between a giant insect and a large dog, with a metallic exoskeleton protecting human-looking internal organs. The creatures were developed by Boston Dynamics, a mobile robot company based in Massachusetts.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/how-those-creepy-war-of-the-worlds-aliens-came-to-life-on-epix/

brush

(53,876 posts)
7. SCARY. And they never get tired, can pursue all day.
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 01:46 PM
Jul 2022

I'd hate to be confronted with that.

Talk about nightmare material.

brush

(53,876 posts)
16. Not forever, but long enough to outlast humans.
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 03:11 PM
Jul 2022

The designers/engineers certainly didn't waste time and money for those thinks not to be able to run down humans.

Phoenix61

(17,019 posts)
21. Doubt it but I'm also not sure it can run for 90 minutes.
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 03:22 PM
Jul 2022

It definitely can’t climb so there’s that. My guess is the faster it moves the less run time. But I get your point.

brush

(53,876 posts)
24. Let's just agree that we don't want one coming after us.
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 03:38 PM
Jul 2022

Especially one armed with an assault rifle.

LudwigPastorius

(9,181 posts)
14. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 03:09 PM
Jul 2022

their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.

*moiven*

NickB79

(19,274 posts)
27. Is this fully autonomous, or a remotely controlled drone?
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 03:46 PM
Jul 2022

Because autonomous is worse. Far worse.

On the plus side, the recoil seems to make accuracy nil past 25 yards. Just gotta engage with a rifle at 50+ yards. Of course, you could just build them bigger, armored and a larger battery and they become walking tanks.

Ford_Prefect

(7,921 posts)
28. Send them into the NRA headquarters and The Firearm Industry Trade Association home office.
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 03:54 PM
Jul 2022

Let then have something real to fear: an example of Gun Control they can actually appreciate and hide from at the same time.

Can you imagine how long the responding officers would want to delay before entering?

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