Like half of the comments in the quote replies are people explaining how they could easily take down the robot with a can of spray paint or with a grenade or with a lasso or with some clever anti-AI camouflage. I wanted to argue but thought better of it. Let people have their fun while it lasts.
Don't forget, this shit is built like Tesla. They're meant to be a grift, not a properly functioning product (which is why they always focus on aesthetic).
You could probably defeat the targeting system with a flashing light and some reflective gear
Those may suck, but they already sell the Spot robot for like $75k, so once they get mass production going they'll be able to buy a small army of those things for a cost of a humvee.
Soon enough we will see all this stupid shit running around small territorial conflicts, like we saw suicide drones fucking shit up in Armenia.
Yeah most likely not. America doesn't have the manufacturing capacity it used to have and can't crank out new weapons like its still ww2.
My God we scrapped the f22 program and are giving the f35 the same "artesian product" treatment we game the f22 before we scrapped it in favor of updating the old fucking f16 again. Our military manufacturing capacity is married to the shitty old cold war tech we've had for decades and nothing short of shifting to a total war mobilization of the economy is going to change that.
Like half of the comments in the quote replies are people explaining how they could easily take down the robot with a can of spray paint or with a grenade or with a lasso or with some clever anti-AI camouflage. I wanted to argue but thought better of it. Let people have their fun while it lasts.
Yeah in all seriousness these things are terrifying and will probably be able to snipe people long before the target gets close.
Don't forget, this shit is built like Tesla. They're meant to be a grift, not a properly functioning product (which is why they always focus on aesthetic).
You could probably defeat the targeting system with a flashing light and some reflective gear
Those may suck, but they already sell the Spot robot for like $75k, so once they get mass production going they'll be able to buy a small army of those things for a cost of a humvee.
Soon enough we will see all this stupid shit running around small territorial conflicts, like we saw suicide drones fucking shit up in Armenia.
Exactly. At those sort of prices they can be deployed in hordes. One person could reasonably control a large amount of them.
Black Mirror episode about a drone swarm massacring civilians, but with quadruped drones instead
Yeah most likely not. America doesn't have the manufacturing capacity it used to have and can't crank out new weapons like its still ww2.
My God we scrapped the f22 program and are giving the f35 the same "artesian product" treatment we game the f22 before we scrapped it in favor of updating the old fucking f16 again. Our military manufacturing capacity is married to the shitty old cold war tech we've had for decades and nothing short of shifting to a total war mobilization of the economy is going to change that.
Oh my god, the implications of this technology mixed with Libertarian brain worms...
Imagine robo-dogfights to decide who has property rights over an air purifier.
Xiaomi is already selling robot dogs for $1500 so that future might be closer than we think.
In that case I'm gonna head over to hollywood and pitch my show "Cesar Millan, but for robots" while I'm still ahead of the curve.
I hope they catch on fire the same way Teslas do lol
What, you don't carry a 1200m lasso