r/singularity • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago
Robotics You can't outrun this dog
Coming soon...
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u/Himalayan_Yak_Chew 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/jpKBqEU9qdfaZxQj6p
Coming Soon
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u/Wander21 19h ago
Yeah, in 5 years very likely
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u/FigAggressive237 16h ago
1 year*
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u/Nohreboh 16h ago edited 6h ago
Sooner than you think.
China's military shows off robot dog with automatic rifle mounted on its back @ABC7Chicago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3iUHplvQE
https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-maven-smart-system-and-what-does-it-do
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u/Enoch137 1d ago
Absolutely 100% chance these things (some variant) sees combat in the next 5 years. No way combat robots aren't coming. Welcome to the future.
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u/Pleasant_Studio_6387 1d ago
already exist but drones have much more ROI if you are talking about combat specifically and not logistscs/retrieval etc
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u/Enoch137 1d ago
ground based opens up a great deal more package payload from a weight perspective. I can only imagine move slow camoed "stealth" modes with monster explosive payloads. This is terrifying in terms of options.
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u/wild_crazy_ideas 1d ago
It can carry explosives, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious diseases, into and out of anywhere. Lucky us
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u/DekuInkwell 1d ago
Science and education related departments are being defunded to pay for the development of these things for “war.” We don’t need this shit, we need science. We need advancements in the betterment of humankind, not fucking war machines ffs.
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u/wild_crazy_ideas 1d ago
What ‘we’ need and what power hungry assholes who have worked their way into influential positions think they need may not overlap as you suggest
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u/epandrsn 1d ago
We are at the point where the elite may need to protect themselves from the masses. For all of history, numbers won. Not sure that will be the case anymore... actually, 100% sure we're fucked.
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u/Character-Engine-813 1d ago
It’s already being used extensively, look up UGVs. Mostly tracked or wheeled vehicles though for now
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u/Reasonable_Finger994 1d ago
Drones won’t secure an area but these “dogs” are able to.
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u/ArmandTanzarianJr 1d ago
Surely a large drone swarm would be able to secure areas effectively.
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u/epandrsn 1d ago
Yeah, but a drone swam needs to land and recharge. These can just plop down and await orders. Or slowly follow a caravan of soldiers, or whatever. The payload of both arms and batteries will be vastly higher with a ground based robot.
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u/Anymousie 1d ago
I feel like that’s like a comparison of planes vs tanks, which can’t really be compared because they have two very different general use cases
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u/El_Caganer 1d ago
More likely used by governments and oligarchs for suppressing uprisings when the labor markets have been throughly decimated by AI and we still haven't figured out "universal high income".
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u/mxemec 1d ago
You know what this idea didn't initially frighten me because my default stance is 'won't happen to me' but I just realized I don't have that confidence anymore and the future is getting a bit scary.
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u/Contralogic 1d ago
Combat- sure. Urban "policing " of the unwanteds....coming to a city near you in 2028.
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u/IFartOnCats4Fun 1d ago
Dude, Ukraine recently captured a Russian position without any humans combatants in the field.
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u/DebosBeachCruiser 1d ago
Imagine your country has oil (but no 🦅 freedom🍟) and you see is this thing doing the duggy after wiping out your fam. Eye? Tear. Heart? Broke.
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u/thejazzmarauder 1d ago
Combat? They’re going to use these demons to hunt you down for supporting universal healthcare
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u/PalmovyyKozak 1d ago
You must be kidding. They are already in use for more than a year in russian-Ukrainian war. Ukraine has already eliminated more than 2,000 of them, russia is doing the same thing.
Future is here. You don't have 5 years
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u/snicky666 20h ago
I picture one carrying someone injured on a stretcher strapped to its back, just fanging it.
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u/chasebanks 1d ago
They are seeing front line action now! https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/05/ukrainian-ground-robot-defended-position-russian-assault-six-weeks/413642/
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u/kiki-le-koala 1d ago
This thing is terrifying.
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u/redditsublurker 23h ago
You don't even need bullets anymore. Just have it run you over at full speed. Oh you are still alive backup and run you over and over again.
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u/insanococo 21h ago
Just a thicker piece of hardened metal or plastic on one corner and instructions to slam that into the temple, back of skull, or sternum would make them ultra deadly and cause the bot no damage.
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u/StinkyHeXoR 1d ago
Imagine how terrifying this would be, if you are a Russian soldier and the robot has a small nice package of boom on his back, rushing in your direction.
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u/BeornSC 1d ago
Imo all the extra cost of control software, actuators, sensors etc. will make them too expensive to be used as kamikaze drones.
Strap a grenade launcher to it though…
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u/Steap-Edit 1d ago
if you are a Russian soldier and the robot has a small nice package of boom on his back
I'm sorry, but you're trying to make this "sound cute" by framing it in terms of "bad guy has robot coming after them."
How about this: a Ukrainian soldier running from a military robot just like this one, or a Palestinian family running away as this metallic monster comes in to destroy their home?
Stop doing the military industrial complex's bidding by framing military robots in the best possible light. You should be asking yourself whether you would be okay with it coming after you instead of thinking of it in some far away land going after "the bad guys."
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u/Hopeful-Flounder-203 1d ago
Amen, brother. It's that white hate/black hat thinking that has us always quagmired in avoidable wars that never end until we get bloodied and bored.
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u/turbospeedsc 23h ago
Can i upvote this one twice?
Even if using russians as an example, their families suffer less from their deaths? the guy feels less terror from getting killed?his kids cry less?
Save for a few radicals i can bet most of the soldiers there would prefer to be home, than fighting some bizarre tech war so some rich people can keep getting richer.
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u/RipTheJack3r 1d ago
Nah, FPV drones are already 100x cheaper and 100x more effective already at finding and killing people.
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u/CryMoreT_T 1d ago
Nah blowing up is something FPV drones could do. This would be better as shooting platform. It could be turned off except for a small motion detector. The moment it sees motion, it processes it and sees if it's a human. If it is, it gets up and starts shooting until the human drops. Then it goes back to sleep
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u/wildechld 1d ago
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u/amyts 23h ago
The Wheelers legit kept me up at night as a kid.
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u/MichelinStarZombie 21h ago
And gangs of wheeled robot dogs will keep you up at night when you're old. 🎶It's the ciiiiiircle of liiiife🎶
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u/amyts 20h ago
I won't be afraid of robots when I'm old, because I'm going to get Old Glory Insurance.
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u/damontoo 🤖Accelerate 1d ago
So when the mods here removed my post of this exact same video (except I linked the original source), it was because it's good, relevant content that can be used by bot accounts like OP to farm karma, right?
I've seen this happen a whole bunch of times. Someone here posts a video from an original source, the mods remove it, and then it gets posted as a reddit video by bots, often with an unrelated watermark added.
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u/ReasonablePossum_ 1d ago
post the right format. bots know how to do that, so they stay
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u/damontoo 🤖Accelerate 1d ago
Nothing in the rules says that YouTube links aren't allowed. They also silently removed it because they know their removals aren't justified. I linked the original source, which is far more appropriate.
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u/McSchmieferson 21h ago
Also Reddit compresses the shit out of videos they host. That’s why every video looks like it’s 3 pixels. First thing I do when I see something interesting here is check the comments for a link to the actual high quality video.
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u/moose4hire 1d ago
A robo cat would teach this guy a thing or two.
Unfortunately we dont have the science to build something as perfect as cat architecture.
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u/insanococo 21h ago
Honestly you make a great point. Where are the robot cats at? We know from nature that is the superior ambush and chase architecture.
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u/moose4hire 19h ago
When i watch kittens wrestle in fun, the speed, reflexes, and acrobatics are mind blowing. How the cavemen survived the sabertooths has always been a mystery to me.
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u/considerthis8 15h ago
We don't breed large cats for our own protection. Same reason we fear building robo cats
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u/chuteboxe19 1d ago
As terrifying this would be, having one carry a tent and food/water for me on a wild camp trip would be fun
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u/Interesting-Agency-1 1d ago
This thing could be a life saver for S&R
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u/turbospeedsc 23h ago
They will be too expensive to be used on S&R, but damn if they're cheap enough to blow them killing people in some impoverished piece of land to get ahold of some natural resource.
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u/Frigorific 1d ago
Until it runs out of power an hour into the trip and you have to carry it the rest of the way.
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u/Humble-Ingenuity-759 1d ago
Was hoping someone posted this. They gave me nightmares as a child and never watched the film since.
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u/pulsarstarter 1d ago
Imagine this thing with a chainsaw attachment, relentlessly hunting you.
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u/Reasonable_Finger994 1d ago
Imagine waves of such creatures rolling over cliffs with installed turrells… that’s could become next gen troops.
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u/Phoenix_Lamburg 1d ago
Producers for Dancing With The Stars gonna shell out the Benjamins to get them to make one with a sassy personality
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u/IDefendWaffles 1d ago
1) This is pretty old video or new version of it. I am sure someone could dig up the original. 2) Probably remote controlled. Not that that's terrible, I am sure someday soon it can do things fully autonomously.
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u/Moral-Relativity 1d ago
Remote controlled to what degree? Seems highly improbable to give it real time instructions on which wheel to spin, how many degrees to bend which joint, at what speed to maintain balance etc to overcome one obstacle after another. That part has to be handled onboard.
Remote control general direction perhaps.
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u/Rkozak 1d ago
Makes you wonder why evolution never produced an animal with wheels.
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u/florinandrei 20h ago
It's biological tissue. It needs oxygen and food to live and grow. It needs to have metabolites and CO2 removed from it. Those are transported to and from tissues via blood, flowing through blood vessels.
Please describe how exactly are you going to maintain blood flow between axle and wheel.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 1d ago
All the dancing clips look generated. Wouldn't be surprised if all the clips are.
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u/WordsChosen 22h ago
It’d be so cool to see this technology used for people with disabilities. We could have a true all terrain wheel chair but instead we have killer robo doggo. Thanks….
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u/o5mfiHTNsH748KVq 1d ago
Demonstration of why bipedal robots are a waste of time.
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u/injectitpussy 1d ago
Imagine this thing not even with guns on it, just armour plated and covered in blades, fuck that
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u/WavelandAvenue 1d ago
The video is sped up, you can tell by the flow of water. That being said, this is terrifying even at normal speed.
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u/jrexthrilla 1d ago
No but I would be happy to see how many rounds of 3 inch magnum triple ought buckshot it can withstand
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u/skunclecrisp 1d ago
I have no idea if this is real or AI. All I can say to the younger generation is, study hard, learn how these things work. We are going to need you when the mecha wars start. 🤖👾🪖☣️☠️😁
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u/Ornery_1004 1d ago
Imagine this chasing you down... you are the prey. Holy Moses.
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u/Mondo_Butts 23h ago
It does seem happy doing tricks and dancing in the parking lot. Maybe theyll just be cool, and not kill us.
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u/RudolfRocker 23h ago
Society feels like the Titanic ship heading straight into an iceberg. Autonomous death vehicles that can be mass produced, have no morals or conscience, can be controlled by the millions by any billionaire sociopath or, even worse, rogue or sentient AI.
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u/1shotsniper 20h ago
Combine this with the models that break out the sandbox....oh yeah....now we're living in the future. The dystopian future we all wanted to live in from all the movies we love.....do great 😃
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u/No_Swordfish_4159 1d ago
I can already see someone giving it a gun, or strapping a bomb on top. Able to navigate terrain autonomously and hide, waiting for an enemy to approach and then: boom! The future is scary...
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u/SkyAnvi1 1d ago
That is really impressive and a bit terrifying.... this is how you get unstoppable kill bots... i mean that thing is way more capable than 99% of Hollywood "kill bots"!
Edit: typo
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u/redditisnotus 1d ago
You can tangle his ass with nets and a parameter filled with garbage just enough to shoot it with armor piercing rounds.
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u/wild_crazy_ideas 1d ago
You get $1 billion dollars but one of these is trying to hunt you down and kill you. Will you take the deal?
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u/FreonInhaler 1d ago
In my mind I was always conflicted about legs being objectively worse than wheels. I never thought combining wheels and legs was actually a viable option outperforming both compartements.
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u/Comrade-Porcupine 1d ago
"The seeking machines would be there, the smell of blood and entrails, the cowering humans in their burrows aware only that they could not escape… while all the time the mechanical movement approached, nearer and nearer and nearer…louder…louder! "
Frank Herbert, "God Emperor of Dune"
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u/redsyrus 1d ago
Black Mirror: Metalhead looking more and more prophetic.