I know it’s the correct way to word it, but this sounds like rifles on robotic arms mounted on real dogs
Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army
Submitted 1 year ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/next-generation-rifle-robot-dog
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Infynis@midwest.social 1 year ago
Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 year ago
some style guides are really dumb and consider "a b-c d" to be "(a b)-(c d)", as if a hyphen is less tightly-binding than a space
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Truly a weapon to surpass metal gear!
3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Anyone still remembers when they said they would never use dog robots for weapon/war purposes? I do. Things always age like milk and it’s unsurprising.
cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Boston Dynamics said that, and they have stuck to that commitment. IIRC it’s even in the contract when you buy a robot from then that you will not equip it with a weapon.
This article is about Ghost Robotics, which has never made such a commitment. They are known to supply gun-equipped robots to governments at all levels.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, yeah. I Did A Thing did a video on exactly this a year or so back. His setup was a complete shitshow as they had to change robo-dogs at the last second (because Michael Reeves and OfflineTV didn’t want to get sued by Boston Dynamics) but the principle was sound.
But also? You are never going to replace a well trained soldier with this. Even with a proper gimbal mount, you aren’t doing rapid precise shots.
But also… you don’t need to. The advantage to this is to have a relatively low cost platform to handle suppressive fire or fire an anti-tank shot or whatever. Something where you would otherwise be risking a human being.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Before they made the knife missile, I expected someone to mount the robotic sniper array on a Predator.
But robot murder dogs are just another drone if they’re controlled by an operatons team.
We cross the crazy sci-fi line when they’re able to autonomously select and attack targets based on an algo.
Maeve@kbin.social 1 year ago
Remember when they were surprised that drone operators also got ptsd?
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean… that is another I Did A Thing video (the knife missile is Backyard/Backdoor Scientist). Well, I Did A Thing, Michael Reeves, random ass kids, etc.
Gun+Computer Vision = Autonomous Sentry Turret. Reeves and Alex made things “harder” by trying to specifically identify faces. But it doesn’t take much to realize that shooting at anything identified as a human approaching on an active battlefield is a LOT easier. And will likely be necessary as more and more “C4 duct taped to a drone” attacks are used against airfields and the like.
Petter1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The Drones used today already using AI/algos in order to finish their mission even if for example the connection to the pilot is lost.
ours@lemmy.film 1 year ago
Israel is already assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists with autonomous/remote-controlled gun platforms. The last one I’ve heard of apparently was able to use facial recognition and shoot the scientist in his car sparing the other passengers.
Next to that, putting the platform on a Spot seems almost trivial. Maybe one day they’ll be able to airdrop a bot, have it walk kilometers across a forest, and place itself in a position to snipe someone marked for death by one State or another.
CIWS-30@kbin.social 1 year ago
Only thing shocking about this is that it took this long. Any drone capable of carrying a weapon was going to get one. I mean, look at Ukraine right now. Consumer drones with soda bottle improvised explosives and cardboard drones. I can see a future where most warfare is drone vs drone, to see who can hit the other's supply lines / storage first.
The way Russia's turtling with illegal mines, drones are basically one of the only ways to attack without taking massive losses while also moving slowly and being sitting ducks for artillery.
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The future will never be about drone vs drone, as no one cares about the drones. They have to hit where it hurts, which is human life.
Best case scenario, wars will be fought over drone command centres. Much more probably drones will be used to increase civilian suffering to end the wars.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
So, how soon is it until they cram ChatGPT, Tensorflow, and a few others into this thing and actually make a Terminator?
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Concidering we already have robotic birds dropping explosive on enemies in curren warfare, this really isn’t that big of a deal
Seudo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Automation os the big deal. Drones have cameras so humans can make a (hopefully) informed dososiom to strike or not. When the drone doesn’t need a camera because it can make the call without a human in the loop, we have removed a vital bottleneck.
The only thing that stopped WWI from being total war is that once one generation is wipped out, it takes time to grow more troops. With autonomous weapons being manufactures autonomously by autonomously constructed factories, whoever controls the drones could of conquered the world.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, that assumes that resources and energy are unlimited. This is the main problem with any “grey goo” scenario.
And it wasn’t people being killed that stopped WW2. People are killed in every war. The defensive weaponry was more powerful than the offensive weaponry. Machine guns were only used on defense because they were heavy. Also, artillery was not mechanized so it was hard to move everything forward quickly.
ram@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Not to mention millions or even billions of robotic drones that monitor us all.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hear you can distract it by throwing some batteries at it.
HarrySlaughter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyone who’s played The Division knows the Black Tusks did this years ago
turbodrooler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Daisy 🥰
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
Now make a robo dinosaur.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
do you want horizon zero dawn? Because that’s how you get horizon zero dawn
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
Only if they start self-replicating.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If I may quote our future robotic overlord.
Neet.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I recently visited the Boston Museum of Science where they have one of the Boston Dynamics robodogs on display, and they did a live demo with q&a. All I could think of the whole time was that one black mirror episode…
decadentrebel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We’re now a step closer to making dogs with BBs in their mouths and when they bark they shoot BBs at you.
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Absolutely fantastic stuff here.
manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
I’m waiting for them to unleash Metal Gear
DarkLogic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This was inevitable. I was imagining Ukrainians would love to have a tool like this to remotely walk up and clear trenches.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine a mobile gun controlled by ChatGPT 3.5. 😐
Gerula@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Atlas’s brothers are in the making. The are searching for a proper name … any suggestions?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If I were a dog, or the creator of a dog, I would say:
This beast is such an insult!
Totally stiff in the spine, stamping worse than a cow on dope, and that stiff body must stay horizontally at all times.
What a gross misconstruction.
DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 year ago
Anyone actually surprised? It was clear from the get go that this was where these bots were headed...
intelati@programming.dev 1 year ago
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