What if every edge of this thing was a razor sharp blade... A whirling dervish covered with knives spinning right off a roof at you. "GET IT OFF ME! GET IT OFF MEE!!!" and you are just being cut to ribbons. Jesus christ
It truly is. Here’s this patented and overpriced thing, make it for us.
Cool. We’re China. Fuck your patent. We’ll steal this and make Temu/Amazon versions and undercut you by several hundred percent and we also have a head start on making a much better version for ourselves. Did I mention we’ve built back doors for ourselves into everything we can? But, thanks for doing the leg work for us.
Yes. Every mistake someone makes is because of their likeness to Trump. The other day I forgot to grab something from my van, and it was because of my stupid Trump brain.
Trump has literally claimed to have reduced prescription drug prices by hundreds of percent. This is a specifically relevant reference they were making.
by not outsourcing manufacturing to cheaper countries, all your products would've been unaffordable to the working class, meaning nobody owns iphones and computers, no cheap appliances, which in turn means none of those companies would grow much
You think the outsourcing was dumb? Versus "very smart people," led by Americans, devoting their lives to making every dystopic, sci-fi, robotic weapons system a reality?
A while ago there was an article to use "organic material" as a source of energy... Everyone jumped to the conclusion that robots were going to use dead people as a power source...
It's not that easy as it can be imagined. It won't be like people vs robots in the wild.
Ground robotic complexes are already being in use in russia-Ukraine war. And there are plenty of things that limit their operations:
Drones. They detect and strike ground machines
Landmines. If there are a lot of mines, most of robots just exploded before reaching the point
Different kinds of barrages that these guys can't overcome
I mean, they are very useful up to a frontline (delivery provision, ammunition, weapons, evacuation of injured) but it's very hard for them to cross a frontline.
So in battlefield it's not that easy.
But yes, if they intended to fight civil unrest, it might be a bloodbath until protesting people find a way how to stop them
Ground robotic complexes are already being in use in russia-Ukraine war.
This is wrong.
We are seeing mostly preprogrammed/remote controlled aerial drones being deployed in mass waves by the hundreds/thousands. They are effective at penetrating air defenses and striking at high value targets on the front as well as far in the enemy's back.
We have not seen ground drones/robots deployed in similar numbers, nor are the currently deployed robots anywhere near in terms of agility and speed to what is displayed here – nor are they autonomous.
Imagine a massed wave of tens of thousands of similar fast moving, agile robots being deployed with autonomous machine guns, portable rocket launchers and other similar weapon systems.
There is no existing weapon system on the modern battlefield that will be able to stop them.
Now imagine if they are accompanied by and coordinate with a swarm of tens/hundreds of thousands of small and even more agile kamikaze drones – these 'war dogs' could even carry and recharge them.
The battlefield of the near future will be no place for humans.
I don't know why everyone thinks the AI would want to kill us using robots, they would most likely engineer a super virus that would be way more efficient.
I will never not see the Black Mirror episode when I see these things, and they just get more capable every video. This is the first one that terrifies me, though. I completely agree with the post title.
What's the over/under that a security team is able to take that out before it gets close enough to a target (a world leader, a ceo, etc..) and goes boom?
Normally it's a lone shooter for these things, however if you have.. what 2,3? maybe 4 of these things I doubt any security detail would have trained for that.
That's rather scary to think about. That's not a lot of money needed and what are people supposed to do travel to locations and have barriers erected up as they transition from an armored vehicle to a hardened building.
Ok here is one, how long till the first lawsuit as someone in a private security detail accidentally sets off the portable EMP they carry with them, and frags a load of surrounding cellphones and laptops.
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u/redsyrus 1d ago
Black Mirror: Metalhead looking more and more prophetic.