https://mobile.twitter.com/Ghost_Robotics/status/1447699250570203137

  • Animasta [any]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      so once they get mass production going

      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.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      once they get mass production going

      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.

      • Animasta [any]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        Xiaomi is already selling robot dogs for $1500 so that future might be closer than we think.

        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          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.