‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because they are too expensive for schools to buy.

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• bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If not fren, why fren shaped

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  • SquatDingloid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It looks like a fun and fulfilling thing to hit with my car.

    Those little fuckers creeped me out ever since the black mirror episode when they were turned into automated murder dogs

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because not spend $10,000 on $1,000 worth of security camera system instead of helping poor people. Rich bastards.

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  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    try 75,000 dollars

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• Freefall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because musk is an ignorant child redditor…that is why.

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  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boston Dynamics isn’t a musk company

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    • Freefall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is correct and not relevant. Being an ignorant twit that is pretty much the first lady and has likely always wanted robot guard dogs, and so suggested them to trump…is kinda on brand though.

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• nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  oh cool/good

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• nomous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah’s. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that’s the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.

  The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.

  “Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside,” Hiro says behind her… “A radioactive substance that makes heat. That’s its energy source.”

  “How do you turn it off?”

  “You don’t. It keeps making heat until it melts.”

  The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.

  As part of Mr. Lee’s good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido’s in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good book, Snow Crash

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• xenomor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you encounter one of these, absolutely don’t pet it. Instead, kick it. Run over it. Perhaps, light that little robot fucker on fire. But definitely don’t pet it.

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  • horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are demonstrations (or of ATLAS I forgot) that shows them keep straight after hard kicks and such. Wont work

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What about an angle grinder?

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Keep the proles out.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is such a shame, I mean we could be putting those bots to good use.

  Can I get a rule 34 on these robots?

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  • sndmn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any robot is a sex robot if you are brave enough.

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How did you even fit into that USB port???

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While the robotic dog seen at Mar-a-Lago is not armed, she says competitors appear to be experimenting with models that are.

  “People are trying to weaponise these dogs,” Cummings adds, citing a Chinese model with an attached rifle which she learned about at a robotics meeting this week.

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Accelerationism coming from exactly the social class we expected

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Coo at them. Pet them. Call them a good doggie. Drop a treat on them, all in defiance.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a unique approach to suicide-by-cop

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    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The ones at Mar-A-Lago are unarmed.

      My approach to the armed ones, particularly the tazer-equipped ones used by some US law enforcement departments, would be very different.

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• scumola@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All these AI detection sentry robots are all trained on the same AI datasets. Just wear a black see-through hood over your face with a stop sign on your front and back and they’ll ignore you and probably stop walking when near you. You can waltz right in.

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  • sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or dress like a deer and it’ll just ignore you and keep going

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dress like Trump, attack it, then flee.

      Guess who’s now considered a threat to the AI?

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I want to Walz right in

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• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These are not good boys

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?

  Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.

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  • 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These things are communicating by radio. Whether it’s wifi or 4G/5G modem, either can be disabled easily with a raspberry pi and some software.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.

    Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.

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  • perestroika@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Level 3000 hack: compromise security with drone fleas that jump onto drone dogs.

    Level 9000 hack: join the pack with a drone attack dog.

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  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure the secret service is absolutely thrilled.

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    • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sure the secret service is absolutely thrilled complicit’with his horseshit

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• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d like to pet it with a .50 cal.

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• Kekzkrieger@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  can you just approach them and turn them over so they cant get up themselves anymore, would be some fun activism?

  Or is that a crime already in such a free country

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, put a traffic cone on 'em.

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  • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is how you start the Great Robot War.

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    • SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll see her standing by the monorail She’ll look the same except for bionic eyes She lost the real ones in the robot wars I’ll say I’m sorry, she’ll say it’s not your fault Or is it? And she eyes me suspiciously Hearing the whir of the servos inside

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  • LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    youtu.be/jEBELMDT6cE?t=262&si=dprkjYTi5nhRjbuK

    You can’t really keep them from getting back up, they won’t stay on their sides perfectly balanced because of the curves on their legs. And I’m even so they could “kick” their legs to push them to be able to get back up.

    Just in case you’re wondering in the future if that will work.

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    • Kekzkrieger@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.

  This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a golf coarse… it’d be perfect for the simplicity of wheels.

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  • HeneryHawk@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re robots, probably don’t “rough”

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  will it also say “move along citizen there is nothing to pet here” in a male robot voice?

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  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It can, but it comes out more like “ROOVE ARONG RITIZEN!”

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably because Trump hates real dogs.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the bronzer has a bad effect on them.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So they have a coffee brewer on their back but you cannot pet? Please make sense.

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• lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny and sad. Society so divided, so polarized, cemented bipartisan - they can’t have candidate above divisions.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. God help us.

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  • Peter_Arbeitsloser@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The moment when you seem them and suddenly everything turns black & white. Oh no.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Metalhead? I really didn’t get the twist of it.

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    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does it need a twist? They accurately warned us about exactly what US fascists are building to protect their bunkers.

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.

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  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When Q-Anon speads baseless pedophile ring accusations it’s ridiculed but apparently doing the exact same thing for their side is fair game. Great display of double standards yet again.

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    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re just pals, nothing to see here.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If we want to win over Republican voters we need to appeal to their sensibilities.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Trump is appointing a pedo to be Attorney General.

      Trump is a pedo.

      One is a lie is based on projection and the other is pointing out that pedos are pedos.

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    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you don’t get jokes it can’t be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.

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• workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re guard dogs

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• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies

  Ah life really does imitate art

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  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t be surprised if it was named after the game. These guys like to name their companies nerdy sinister names on purpose. Like Palantir

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• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s always a place for a happy little accident.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why are you holding my birth certificate???

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Should I drop it?

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• 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You just reminded me I need to pick that back up.

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• qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because real dogs refuse the job.

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But despite their many impressive features, the devices can be taken down.

  “You just have to spray it with Aqua Net hairspray in its ‘face’,” Cummings said. “And that would be enough to stop the cameras from working correctly.”

  FYI

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  • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol why is Aqua Net hairspray specifically the thing that takes them down? Like other brands of hairspray don’t work? Spray paint or Elmer’s glue or maple syrup aren’t effective? You can’t just throw a bedsheet over them or hit them with a crowbar?

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Definitely don’t Google “2K spray paint” because it’s impossible to remove and you can seriously damage surveillance devices with it, like cameras and stuff I dunno

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Small Soldiers also taught us how to turn an electric pole transformer into an improvised EMP device. That turns the dogs off.

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