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kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, calling it the “T800” just screams what they want it for. This world is so cooked

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh.

    Robots capable of melee combat are pretty much pointless. Melee is what you resort to when someone gets too close and you can’t point your gun at them because your reflexes are too slow or you are not strong enough to overpower them pushing it out of the way. Robots will always have faster reflex times, can physically attach the gun to their bodies, and are going to be stronger than a human trying to push their arm out of the way.

    This is just the cultural dance aspects of martial arts. It shows that the robot has dexterity and coordination and is capable of elaborate choreography.

    This kind of robot is genuinely a good invention for the purposes of elder care (something China is going to have massive problems with because of their one child policy fundamentally breaking multiple generations). For the purpose of slaughtering those pesky non-Hans?

    terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-1 is a MUCH more effective design. Guns on a heavily armored weapons platform.

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