didn't boston dynamics do this with their disturbing robot?
i think i saw a video on here a week or so ago of it doing target practiceThat video was created by some Russian tech company and posted by a Russian tech CEO named Alexander Atamanov. There are some Russian logos in the video footage. One of the more notable things about the video is that the dog robot is not programmed to anticipate gun recoil. The gun dog was not Boston Dynamic.
However it was Boston Dynamic in 2021 that sold robot dogs to the NYPD. This deal has since been terminated because of public backlash.
This deal has since been terminated because of public backlash.
good job public
Turns out destroying a couple $75,000 robo dogs only takes about $2 worth of materials and even less if you can find a ledge.
Boston Dynamics is still pretending their robots weren't designed as gun platforms and complaining to anyone who attaches a gun to one.
Not to mention things like laser targeting, or the fact that a mountable firing device doesn't necessarily need to have the same configuration as a conventional firearm.
I'm sure the US gov and other state actors have much scarier versions already functioning in prototype form at least.
the better current version of this doesn't bother with the legged nonsense. it's way easier to put a gun on a glorified RC car.
one of the battlebots teams uses a pneumatic canon, easily could do a gun instead if they were into murdering people instead of getting on a mediocre TV show.
battlebots TV is so much worse than NHRL's youtube streams. it's ridiculous.
discovery's reality tv bullshit and all the filler makes the show impossible for me to watch as broadcast. we have cable for some reason but i still watch it on some pirate site so i can scrub through all the commercial bumpers, slow walkouts, and shitty lingering shots of the box while the audience chants fightfightfight.
I want to see one of those battlebots with just a fuckoff huge captive bolt gun. Touch up against the other bot and slam a three foot tungsten rod through it.
i'm not sure the physics works out on that but it sounds cool if it does.
the funniest of these is still the quadcopter with the handgun.
the scariest one is the time the coward pigs put a bomb on a robot and blew up that guy in Dallas.
A quadcopter with a gun barrel, or specifically swarms of hundreds of these, is possibly the scariest weapon on earth. Look up "slaughterbots" if you don't believe me, or if you're ready to be doomerpilled on the prospects of a vanguard party.
You know how zoomers are in a linguistic arms race with TikTok auto moderation to figure out which words, phrases, and images flag their AI? Imagine that, but it’s a literal arms race with facial recognition turrets
We cannot hope to win this race.
Practically everyone on Earth is a potential target for someone. Development is easy and cheap. Barriers to entry are low. States will be disincentivized to use them against their own citizens, but non-state actors will have no such reluctance. Anyone who has a leakable or public identity, is a member of any group that another group would want killed, and lives within 50 miles of a major roadway has a slaughterbot or two with their name on it.
We have two things we can hope for. One is a swift and decisive global takeover of cyberspace by the Chinese, ushering in a socialist transition around the world where we cooperate as interdependent peoples. The other is sweet sweet technological collapse where maybe we manage to live in cob complexes, do a permaculture or two, practice holistic medicine centered around herbalism, and retain enough metallurgy to have bicycles.
swarms of anything are pretty terrifying, quads don't usually have shrouded fans so just making the things out of metal and crashing them into a person until you get the neck a few times could be some real Hitchcock's The Birds shit
too much momentum required, too messy and likely to fail before adequately performing its mission. this is way more assured
I’ve always wondered how difficult it would be for someone to build a diy version of that, and how much it might cost. Just browsing online, this off-the-shelf hybrid drone is relatively cheap at $16k and has a 7h flight time + 5kg (~11 lbs) capacity. That seems like enough to carry a lightweight semi-auto rifle with ammo and have a little room to spare. Someone could also maybe use something like a Jetson Nano ($100) for identification/targeting based on uniforms, facial recognition, etc. So I’m guessing it would be a little under $20k (assuming it actually works) which isn’t exactly “cheap” but is frighteningly cheap enough for a lot of people to have their own killer drone, provided they can get it up and running correctly. You could maybe even make a smaller and cheaper drone with an airsoft or paintball gun just to test the concept and harass your friends/family/neighbors, which would be pretty fun.
Years ago I remember seeing a video where some teen had built a working nerf gun version of the turrets from Portal, complete with voice clips, motion detection and motion tracking
Commenters were telling him that his cutesy project was massively unethical
I love I did a thing. He also dropped (inert) bomblet darts from a drone.
i'll admit, the little tricks it does worked on me. admittedly tho i'll pet a rock if it strikes me as cute.
The dog robot that they use in the video is the Unitree GO1. You can buy the same robot for $2700.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256802648609020.html
I remember when this, done by other people (I thought the actual boston dynamics people but idk), was posted here it was laughed at as being useless and unrealistic as a weapon, but yeah, it should fucking scare people. They don't need to put a fucking AR on these things, they can build the gun into the robot, they can account for recoil, etc.
The good news: if it's radio controlled, it can be radio hijacked.
The bad news: Hacking it jamming a radio signal while being shot at isn't exactly easy.
If it's microwave lasers, that means it's super low range and will need line of sight. The reason so many radio devices operate sub GhZ is because that's how you get range.
If they switch to a higher frequency to dodge remote hijacking, that means we just need to find out where the fucker that's operating it is and go there.
If they're using satellite control, then jamming is an option again.
They should've stuck one of these babies on its back! What could go wrong?
When the murderbots finally arrive, they'll be covered in brand stickers. The last thing you'll see is "Brought to you by LAY's!"
Samsung owns hospitals, shipmaking, banks, insurance, apartment blocks....same with Hyundai, LG and Lotte
Why the fuck did he think that intro was good in any fucking way?
Love that he convinced the AK Chud Brandon Herrera to help out.
