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Sean Chiplock @sonicmega Jul 20All 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.
Link to tweet
MagickMuffin
(15,958 posts)I don't like guns in the hands of emotionally mentally deranged humans or dogs living or robotic.
Going to Canada
(169 posts)The dogs can fight the war. This is crazy, crazy. We are doomed.
Silent3
(15,282 posts)...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.
Liberal In Texas
(13,581 posts)Send 'em to Ukraine. Near the Russian border. Very near.
Sky Jewels
(7,151 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,415 posts)Where are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics? I guess robotics are in the hands of the sociopaths these days
2naSalit
(86,817 posts)We really need to dial it way back on the gunz thing.
Brenda
(1,072 posts)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
(53,904 posts)I'd hate to be confronted with that.
Talk about nightmare material.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)brush
(53,904 posts)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)brush
(53,904 posts)Even without dodging bullets?
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)It definitely cant climb so theres that. My guess is the faster it moves the less run time. But I get your point.
brush
(53,904 posts)Especially one armed with an assault rifle.
homegirl
(1,434 posts)disguised pit of spears.
montanacowboy
(6,103 posts)War of the Worlds
This is our future
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)Hekate
(90,837 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,181 posts)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
(637 posts)🐾
Marcuse
(7,520 posts)PufPuf23
(8,840 posts)will be their own demise. Poor Earth.
packman
(16,296 posts)NickB79
(19,274 posts)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)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
(1,545 posts). . . had been in Uvalda . . .