IDK, "walking gun" is pretty comprehensible. It's the economic system that makes this more cost-effective than ending homelessness I don't get.
The intent is for there to be homelessness. It's a coercive measure that lowers the floor of how bad things can get for you if you don't participate.
I know I’m weird but I unironically love the evil robot gun dog. If I’m gonna live in a dystopia anyways, this is at least less boring and more cyberpunk. And it means if I keep living I might have a chance at a glorious death in battle with a pack of evil robot dogs, which is definitely cooler than any other way I anticipate going out
Remember being called names on here when I said they were going to weaponize the DARPA robot dog. It's all good though.
This was a while back, got called paranoid and not smart. Like c'mon, why the hell else is DARPA making these things if they cannot be weaponized? That's what the company does.
Anyone who thought they wouldn’t weaponize the DARPA robot was a moron. For about 2 weeks I worked on a project funded by DARPA (and wasted their money while providing them with literally no data before they cut us off, does that count as praxis?) and it was about vagus nerve stimulation and I think their goal was to make cyborg super soldiers. DARPA’s fucking crazy.
something about how this picture shows the discarded packaging and tools in the background of this trade show floor space is just quaint, like there's some sweaty sales dudes just out of frame that just slapped this together so they can show it to rich security buyers and generals
and I can faintly hear some engineers whispering about how the recoil of the gun will overwhelm the torque of the electric servos after a few seconds of continuous fire, and the sales guy is like "that's just more $ in the service contract dude"
PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY. YOU NOW HAVE 15 SECONDS. YOU ARE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF PENAL CODE ONE POINT THIRTEEN SECTION NINE. YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
I like how these scary robo dog things have been on the edge of practicality for like the last 10 years. They're probably just impractical and this stuff is just a grift. How long could it possibly take to make a stupid robo dog thing actually useful? But they don't even seem to have a clear use case for it other than "dystopia robot".
I also like that the sign for some company in the background says "Five Years Out". That statement will probably remain forever true.
Robots are extremely fun to work on, and anyone who has ever worked on one knows the only thing a robot can be trusted to destroy is itself, so yeah, 100% grift. Get a full-time job working on your hobby project by strapping a gun on it and telling the military they'll be able to use it for war crimes in 10 years.
Arrow has actually been around since the 60’s. Think they do electronics. I guess it’s the equivalent of Boeing going ‘look at our future, ooooh’
I can't decide if that Trotsky "no, you are only the present" quote is becoming more inspirational or more cope as time goes on.
The only valid reason to own lawn sprinklers is for defense against these things.
Just another thing that is 10,000x more expensive than getting a human to do the same job, but you're supposed to be terrorized by its appearance because its in the uncanny valley.
