First the Oohs and Aahs, then the Running and Screaming

[bigtree]

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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[MagickMuffin]

1. Bad doggie and very bad aim

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

[Going to Canada]

26. Let the robot dogs fight each other.

The dogs can fight the war. This is crazy, crazy. We are doomed.

[Silent3]

2. One can "ooh and ahh" at the tech without being oblivious to the obvious...

...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.

[Hekate]

11. This

[Liberal In Texas]

3. What could go wrong?

Send 'em to Ukraine. Near the Russian border. Very near.

[Sky Jewels]

8. Send them Putin's home and office

[Trailrider1951]

4. God, that is scary

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

[2naSalit]

5. Absolute proof that...

We really need to dial it way back on the gunz thing.

[Brenda]

6. Darpa imitating Art?

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]

7. SCARY. And they never get tired, can pursue all day.

I'd hate to be confronted with that.

Talk about nightmare material.

[Phoenix61]

13. No battery charge lasts forever. nt

[brush]

16. Not forever, but long enough to outlast humans.

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

[Phoenix61]

18. 90 minutes with a 2 hour recharge time. nt

[brush]

20. Can you run for 90 minutes straight?

Even without dodging bullets?

[Phoenix61]

21. Doubt it but I'm also not sure it can run for 90 minutes.

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]

24. Let's just agree that we don't want one coming after us.

Especially one armed with an assault rifle.

[homegirl]

17. Or a very primitive

disguised pit of spears.

[montanacowboy]

9. Just like those things in

War of the Worlds
This is our future

[geardaddy]

10. That reminds me of a Black Mirror episode

[Victor_c3]

22. +1 n/t

[Hekate]

12. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against

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*

[Higherarky]

15. Yikes! Who let the dogs out?

🐾

[Marcuse]

19. Also available at extra cost is the airborne modular system.

[PufPuf23]

23. Humans are a pathetic species that probably should not and

will be their own demise. Poor Earth.

[packman]

25. If that scares you, wait for the cat version of it

[NickB79]

27. Is this fully autonomous, or a remotely controlled drone?

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]

28. Send them into the NRA headquarters and The Firearm Industry Trade Association home office.

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?

[AverageOldGuy]

29. If a few of them . . . .

. . . had been in Uvalda . . .