A quote, "So loveable, it tugs at our heart strings." WHAT???
And before one of you uhh achksullys me, yes I know that is a paintball gun. Just broaden your imagination a bit more please and include the NYPD in this imagination.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1364769189874065413?s=20
I don't say this often cause it's kinda silly most of the time. But this really is manufactured consent for thinking we need robot dogs having guns. It escalated so fast from a bomb detector/natural disaster aid to a fucking walking turret. All under the guise that oh isn't technology so cute!!! uwu
Remember, part of the legal justification for this will be from the precedent set by the Dallas cops who used a remote-controlled robot to blow up Micah Xavier Johnson after he shot and killed five cops.
Looking forward to when these things get autonomous tracking and "threat-assessment" software like the turrets Samsung setup at the DMZ.
To be fair it is slightly easier to train a neural net to shoot any human then it is to only shoot the black ones.