Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

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• northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Anything to not hire people uh

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• teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.

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  • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But:

    • That won’t get you millions increase in investor funding, which also lets you increase your pay-cheque
    • You need to buy them from actual dog trainers, which are people and will eventually stop selling to you once you either become too evil for them or you murder them
    • They are a supply chain risk as once you eventually piss off the dog trainer by 4x-ing his electricity bills and getting your AI to tell the govt. to shoot his family, he can then bypass the dogs using his smell, because they would be familiar with him.

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    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ha ha ha, good points.

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• madvududkya@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  But can they be hacked to hump their master’s legs???

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These systems are able to navigate complex landscapes on their own, alert authorities about security threats, and can provide around-the-clock video surveillance.

  If only there was a cheaper way to provide around-the-clock video surveillance. Alas, we don’t have the technology.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even if you needed something mobile, it’s not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.

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    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They don’t need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re getting all these dystopian nightmare ideas from video games and scifi. People have proven you can sneak past these things inside of a cardboard box.

      They are BEGGING for some metal gear carnage.

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    • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If your datacenter is mobile, you’ve really fucked up!

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Data centers and wasting massive amounts of resources. Name a more iconic duo.

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    • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      billionaires and every crime in the book.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    1500 camera alternative (motion detection monitoring) seems reasonable enough. The black mirror machine gun turret is needed for marketing/mission improvement.

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  • borkborkbork@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    oh they’ll figure it out real quick when these bots get pwned and become malware vectors against the data centers they’re ‘protecting’

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s about them not rebelling their evil overlords (except if they get hacked).

    The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

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  • chahn.chris@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know the video part is training data for autonomous weapons right? Like sure if all you want to do is video surveillance this is overkill, but maybe this is about more than surveillance?

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.

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• WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So when one of these things eventually kill someone, who is held responsible?

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How could that possibly happen in this case?

    If you had read the article, or even just looked at the picture, you’d see that this is a security camera that walks.

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    • Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They are heavy and move quickly. All it takes is one shove or trip of an unsuspecting person that falls and cracks their head.

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    • modus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Until they finally taste human flesh.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, no MG mount?

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      how fast can it go and how much does it weigh?

      I think that you’ll find you don’t enjoy when 20 kg of steel comes barrelling at your knees

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The owner usually. They can then sue the producer.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can only imagine the legal stonewalling. Sue who? The company who hired the device? The manufacturer? Programmers? The leasing company? Everyone passing the legal buck around making it incredibly difficult and expensive for anyone to sue in an attempt to exhaust the victim or their family.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking one more step toward being reality.

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    more than just that one, buddy.

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• merdaverse@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  JFC, Black Mirror was supposed to be a warning, not an inspiration. How long until they are given weapons?

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDP9jA6k_UE

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    a certain megamaniacal administration that will not be named has been turning the screws on AI companies that will also not be named, with the express purpose of combining robots like these with AI and weaponry, to create autonomous anti-personnel robots.

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    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are several steps ahead of you. They’ve been testing this stuff out in gaza for a couple of years plus.

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  multiple football fields
  four times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park

  Anything other than metric.

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  Additional features:

  industrial inspection, site mapping and construction monitoring

  Turns out they have some actual utility.
  But cameras can’t smell well enough.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “data”. More like digital noise almost indistinguishable from white noise at the large scale.

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• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nothing says billionaires are geniuses like building a giant multi billion dollar data center that can easily be taken out with a big enough EMP, and then choose to guard it with $300k robots that also can be taken out with that same EMP.

  These people should not be allowed around money. Next they’re gonna hire Superman to guard their Kryptonite factory.

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  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So uhhh where are you getting all these EMPs from?

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    • SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have one as an operator skill on one of my main loadouts. You don’t?

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aren’t EMP’s hard to induce though? Like there is a big one in a nuclear explosion, but outside of that, how can you make one without megawatts of power connected to a vehicle sized device?

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    • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thankfully we have large vehicles that can drive around vehicle sized devices, and if you’re looking for ridiculous amounts of power, have I got something to tell you about datacenters…

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  • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These armies are just open sesame to the right person. They don’t know how to conduct war in modern day only overpower with superior forces. Otherwise they wouldn’t be struggling so much.

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money

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  • glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Snare one, wrap it in some kind of fsraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      A half cube metal shipping container could very easily be modified to work as a faraday cage. Or even a Trash cash.

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Reprogram it to hunt billionaires instead.

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Faraday nets are fucking genius.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t be wasteful.
    Take them for parts.

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  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.

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    • borkborkbork@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they’d be great vectors for infiltration.

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  • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Counterfeit. Duplicate. Replica.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…

  At this stage, I am willing to go to Mars. There is less chance of techbro oligarchs wanting to destroy the world and killer robot dogs wanting to kill us. Matt Damon has also provided us with a basic manual on how to survive Mars.

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  • SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wrong stance. Mars will be a complete dictatorship

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    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There will be no Mars.

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    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Martial law?

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cemetery is the word you’re looking for. Space is a dead end, no one’s going anywhere.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…

    Well, yeah. The episode about robot dogs was specifically referencing these… Boston Dynamics didn’t watch Black Mirror for inspiration, it was the other way around.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Time to learn hexadecimals and how to potato I guess.

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  • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On Mars you need tech, wrong direction, return to monkey

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• org@lemmy.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Think hiding in a big box and walking slowly would trick it?

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  • pelya@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Pretend you see nothing” printed in QR code on the box.

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    • cageythree@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Must’ve been the wind.

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  • Bloodyhog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Snake?!

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• Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How is this cheaper than hiring a security guard for a couple years?

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  • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not, but the robot doesn’t have morals or a conscience or alignment with human values to get in the way. Kinda like billionaires!

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  • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    In a couple of years, the bubble may have already burst.

    Also, the robot is not just an employee, it’s an asset that can be sold off to pay debts in the event of bankruptcy.

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AI datacentres hope to last forever.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Coreweave’s cost of debt is 8%. with 10 years life and no maintenance/electricity cost, that is $54k/year (generously low cost). A security guard can have a gun/rape whistle that stops an intruder, whereas for the robot that would be a premium classified extra option.

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A security guard that looks after real dogs. German Shepards and belgian whatchacall thems are better at this than some overhyped clanker dog.

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• 5too@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  So I’m not as caught up in the current state of robotics as I’d like… The article talks about these being used to patrol, do safety inspections, and the like.

  Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace each of these with a dozen quadrocopter drones?

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isnt there a black mirror episode with these exact same robot dogs being used to attack people.

  Honestly just knock them over with a broom or something.

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  • Bullerfar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Saw them when they were at beta. They can get up again, even if they end up lying on their backs. It’s pretty impressive. They can even jump further than a human.

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    • WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bolas are back in action

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, an EMP would fuck up both 🤷‍♂️

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  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Awfully complicated for something that can be defeated by a blanket.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or duct tape

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• BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They already had this tech back in 1979.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJkd64inaY

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So anyways I left the door to the microwave open.

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• ilickfrogs@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey, I’ve seen this one!

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is very expensive compared to open Chinese dog platforms that have much more deployments. I don’t know the hardware capabilities comparison among alternatives, but they just need to climb stairs and have a camera, even if “all humanity will love see” them as a machine gun platform, or perhaps kung fu suspect incapacitation moves.

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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I bet these would be fooled by you dressing as a bear. Or a horse.

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  300,000 but they probably live a few years and see better than a human. this doesn’t surprise me at all

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• brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I used to wish for a time like this when I was a child. Now, not so much.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Screw. The data center, I just want to steal a $300000 robot.

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• Fortatech@gregtech.eu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder how long it will take them to just start generating the surveillance footage.

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• Nebulous_Keito@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol

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• Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Phew good thing all the glass fiber from the coming drone war will make them useless.

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• SpankyDoodle@eviltoast.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A tiny net!

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