https://mobile.twitter.com/Ghost_Robotics/status/1447699250570203137
I will protect you, Comrade Castro :fidel-salute:
Like, I dunno, we could probably tip them over. It would be funny.
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
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.
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.
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.
Remember when that Boston robotics dog appeared and they swore up and down they wouldn't weaponise it?
Yeah.
BD is a DARPA funded operation, so their knowledge is shared with the defense contractors
Yeah… “we don’t do that, we just give all our data to people who do.”
I'm sure this is an ultra effective futuristic weapons system out of our worst nightmares and not a useless cash grab that will have to be physically carried everywhere by an actual human and still manage to fall down the first flight of stairs it encounters.
still manage to fall down the first flight of stairs it encounters.
Amazon dog intensifies
likely the max effective range (in perfect conditions) of the bullet fired, not the dog gun thing itself. its marketing
I just had a thought. How do these things not fall over from the recoil?
The robots weights like 30 kilos without the gun and the gun looks huge. I guess if they get kids to effectively shoot Kalashnikovs in Africa the 40 kg robot can manage the recoil.
These things can take someone kicking them and stay standing, recoil is a fraction of that.
6.5 CR is a relatively lightweight recoiling cartridge (essentially a necked-down .308 case pushing a .264" VLD projectile of about 120-140 grains). From a stable, robotic platform, I do believe it would be effective out to or even beyond 1200m. I have seen people hit steel at 1000m from a mass produced bolt action rifle and
$600$480 optic using only the BDC reticle (no manual adjustments or calculations)CW for chud channel:
https://youtu.be/CRc1QCs3ryE?t=1
