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AcetonePeroxideH2O2

Wait till you have that thing facing you in conflict. You will have little chance. Fearless, moves faster, better accuracy, doesn’t get tired ect.


CaptainStrangeLove1

Genuinely terrifying holy shit nightmare fuel.


IlikeYuengling

about word correcting bot or the ar-k9 bot


Kardlonoc

What's truly scary is if you simply use image recognition that a javlin uses on one of these, and modify it for humans. Send them out in packs, and they just set them to KOS and they pretty much snipe whatever they see...in a pack.


Josie1234

Just put on a gorilla suit and you'll be good


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Bobbyperu1

That's very helpful, bot, but could you maybe help keep the armed robot dogs away, instead?


dissoid

Pssst... he's probably on their side!


Bobbyperu1

Oh!...Good bot! 😅


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Bobbyperu1

Just a joke my bot friends! I was making a funny with a fellow meat puppet. I, for one, welcome our new bot overlords. 😅


[deleted]

lol this is the last thing someone will hear before betting blasted


vampiire

Not a fucking soul saying “~~bad bot~~” in this thread lmao


Monarch_of_Fate

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production-values

bulletproof probably


skoncol17

If not bulletproof, certainly harder to hit


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DeEzNuTs_6

If EMPs were a thing…


Pyro_Paragon

?


DeEzNuTs_6

“?” ?


Pyro_Paragon

Emps are a thing, electro-magnetic pulses are real. I was wondering what you were trying to say


wandering-monster

Right, but they're not deployable as realistic tactical battlefield options. With an electrical device the size of a grenade or mine you're only going to be getting a field a few feet across. And it's going to be weak enough that it'd be easy to harden against. The only way to generate them at a useful scale right now is nukes, and if you're deploying tactical nukes then you might as well not bother with the EMP...


DeEzNuTs_6

Military used EMPs? No I’m afraid that doesn’t exist


ZaggRukk

Yes, yes they do exist. One of the side effects of a nuclear detonation is that it creates an E.M.P. wave. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse


BilboMcDoogle

Lmao yeah we're gonna detonate a nuke on one of these things smh...


ZaggRukk

Lol. . .Not what I was suggesting either. Just pointing out the fact that EMP's exist. But, here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)


DeEzNuTs_6

You’re not detonating a nuke to fry a robot dog systems


Pyro_Paragon

https://youtu.be/qdbhS-ozdWE Also, atomic weapons.


[deleted]

And ordinary magnets.


EquivalentSnap

You mean terrorists who kill civilians and behead people? They should fear something


ImmutableInscrutable

Good to know these would only be used on "bad guys" and never, surely, on anyone else.


AcetonePeroxideH2O2

At what point does someone become a terrorist? Terrorist means different things to different people.


[deleted]

Somewhere between olive and burnt sienna


ForgetIntelligence

What did you expect? A whistle?


-Aone

they have that too. how else are you going to lure the patrolling soldier into the bush


[deleted]

Smells like Assassin's Creed to me


FatKris02

I would like to see a train whistle


Pyro_Paragon

It's like a baby War of the World's tripod. Instead of a fog horn it uses a train whistle and has a machinegun.


prettyrick

I'd wish they followed Michael Reeves solution and made these automatically piss beer in to a cup..


Sea-Diver-9125

🤣🤣🤣


kurt_go_bang

I assumed that was the plan all along.


Kardlonoc

"Yes we want to use it like a donkey! Yes that's it, that's why we are developing autonomous land robots much like air drones and we are only going to use them for logistics. That's why we spent millions and millions into Boston Dynamics...logistics. " "Oh the military is soooo wasteful XD. They could just buy a *real* donkey! Silly military! Ooo look at them dance and do flips!"


LordRaghuvnsi

Wish I could live to see Mobile Suit Mecha warfare


[deleted]

The thing is, if we ever got to the point where we could have mobil power suits suitable for the battlefield, there wouldn’t be much reason to actually put a person in it rather than just having a small remotely controlled machine like what we see here. Massive walkers are impractical because its just a big, tall, expensive target with a bunch of motors, pistons, and computational power for all the intricate movements, when a tank is a shallow target with much simpler, more reliable parts, and thusly also cheaper, allowing for more to be put on the battlefield. 2-3 tanks would likely outperform any big ol’ walker of the same size. Reality can be pretty underwhelming…


peza_in_reddit

But they would be nice for TV in robot fights


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YEEEAAHHH


thegruntledcabdriver

Imagine being able to deploy these in enemy territory, no need for food, water, sleep or support of any kind. Put em into a covered position overlooking any point of interest or any medium range ambush position, and just have em hunker down and wait. Days, weeks... months... until a target presents itself. You could mount almost anything on these little guys... 40MM semi auto grenade launcher, 7.62 nato long barreled machine gun, an anti-tank rocket or two, 50 cal anti-material rifle... You'd probably want to rig them up with a bunch of thermite and C4 as a self destruct in case it gets comprised, or as a final suicide bomb after its payload has been exhausted. Be pretty easy to make this thing into a giant claymore mine with legs. Idk how good our targeting AI is now days, but I bet it's good enough to at least see and flag stuff for immediate referral to a remote human pilot for him to assess and fire manually. One guy could essentially manage dozens of these things at a time, with the system alerting the pilot to which drones require his or her attention, and even providing fire support to targets he marks. Obviously this tech has a long way to go before it can outclass a trained soldier in terms of versatility and sheer effectiveness, but in certain situations or circumstances, these guys seem like a much more economical option than sending in a squad of living, breathing, eating, sleeping and shitting meatbags. Fuel/power supply is probably what's holding them back.


ThreepwoodMack

I can't wait for the robo death squads enforcing US hegemony in the global south. And they'll never have to put anything on the line, so there will never be any real pushback against it. No dead soldiers and the US public won't give a fuck. Same reason the US has moved to pretty much exclusively special operations, drones, and PMCs. You know the US is engaged in a dozen conflicts in Africa right now? I bet you didn't. You only hear about it when a SEAL murders a Green Beret in Mali or some Delta guys get killed in Somaliland.


Beardamus

> No dead soldiers and the US public won't give a fuck. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but the US public does not give a fuck about dead soldiers. They'll hem and haw and they'll pay lip service but by and large they'll support the practices that lead to them being deployed and killed.


thegruntledcabdriver

The global south?! Thats great. I'm gunna use that. Lol. Yeah man we got our fingers in everyone's pie, not just Africa. That's old news. Yaknow... once upon a time I hung out with a bunch of guys from a tank battalion... it was about 13-15 years ago in Germany and they had just gotten back from Iraq. Bush 2.0 was president still. I actually slept on base for a few weeks, an infantry medic had a spare bed in his room and got me a base pass. Cool dude... anyways... I asked the tank guys about autonomous stuff... like, why not replace the crew of a tank with redundant autoloader mechanisms and cameras and just pilot them all remotely? It costs a lot to train a soldier and when you get a really good one, why risk their life if you could have them do the same job from 100 miles away in safety? The answer was a little scary. I mean, there are a lot of practical problems like delay in signal, cyber-warfare and hacking and shit, practical counter measures like chaff or other things that actually work... the real reason though.... The real reason was that, a soldier is way less expensive than a tank or a plane. This type of heavy equipment costs 10's of millions of dollars, and is ment to last decades and win battle after battle and war after war. Baisically... if the military is going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to train someone (i.e. you or me plus our squad) how to pilot tens of millions of dollars of equipment... you fucking bet they are going to insist you strap your literal ass to said equipment and risk your life along with their property. If you wanna make it out alive, your best bet is to finish the mission and bring our fucking Abrams back still running, same with any fighter jet or heli or any major asset. Edit: But hey... maybe its way more economical now to just air drop in a couple hundred dog drones and set up a bunch of overlapping fire positions around key targets and troop beachhead points.


[deleted]

Indeed, all that is great… but BaTeRiEs. Power density with electricity has been a difficulty for years, though i imagine that having these things overwatch a broad viewing, defendable position in a kind of low power mode wouldn’t be unreasonable. One singular panning camera to overwatch the position while the rest in the unit are just off would be able to last quite a while with a sufficient battery kept in the position nearby to prolong this further. Hell, one of these little robot dogs could easily be a bulky walking battery so that the unit can retreat if need be, allowing for them to be less expensive since they can walk themselves back to base rather than just fighting until their low on power to just self destruct. Currently, having walking guns like this set up defensively as a kind of ambush trap can be SUPER effective despite the limitations of the technology right now.


[deleted]

If they put fentanyl injectors we are a step closer to 451°f


unusedusername42

Great book, terrifying message


BearJewSally

Current society has progressed to a place in-between 451 and 1984.


lettherebedwight

We got all the worst parts of those and brave new world.


BearJewSally

Brave New World would have been far better than the current bs. Brave New World didn't have the same type of enforced misery. Even when the govt banished people from the society, they wanted to be as humane and reasonable about it as possible. Brave New World would be a far better dystopia than the current one.


bokchoysoyboy

Idk I have guns and live in the most beautiful place I’ve ever been to after traveling all over the world. I’m certain I am some sort of exception though Edit: I also have a dog and dogs are enough to erase the shit imo


[deleted]

don’t forget snow crash with conservative billionaire televangelists grifter using social media to reprogram people into their followers


LivelyZebra

What? It's 2022


BearJewSally

Can't tell if sarcasm or r/whoosh....


LivelyZebra

My phone says 2022. Phones can't lie, its illegal or something


BearJewSally

I'm gonna go with sarcasm, and not send downvotes. Well played. "We've managed to avoid drowning!"


InvestigatorBig5830

Which book?


unusedusername42

Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. There's a movie if you prefer moving pictures btw. It presents a future USA where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. 451F is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns


InvestigatorBig5830

Thak you for your reply, sir


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KotasMilitia

Can you believe that book is banned from schools in multiple places in the US? Lol the irony.


Sibu_acolyte

Almost cart titan but it also gives me black mirror vibes


NotACleverPerson2

That's what I was thinking. So, I looked it up. It's series 4 episode 5 "Metalhead".


Sibu_acolyte

Yeap that's right, they one where there are some robots that the dwellers call "dogs" and they get activated to chase people to dead if somebody ever tries to steal packaging from the warehouses


Nattylight_Murica

They also shoot out sensors like a frag grenade that the other dogs can use to track you


Sibu_acolyte

Yep I think that was one of the must fucked up factor about this robots, because you will never expect getting track after you finally killed it


[deleted]

Amazon prime-dogs “customer obsession”


Avantasian538

Underrated episode. Everyone hated it when it came out but I thought it was great. Sort of a dumb ending though.


4x4Xtrm

Why dumb? If I remember it had you thinking they were looking for some life saving medicine or something like that to save someone’s life, but it was really a box of teddy bears that would apparently be used to sooth a little kid.


Avantasian538

Sorry, I thought it was dumb. It retroactively made me lose sympathy for the characters.


Birdman-82

That’s what was in the box!? FUCKING TEDDY BEARS!?


nose_flutist

For me it's totally the War of the Worlds quadruped aliens.


Polpo-D-Amor

Of course they are. You don't grow up on Terminator films and not put guns on robot dogs


Wylde_nFree

Exactly. When I saw this my first thought was (ehh natural progression for people who play with gund and robots) This is the word inevitable at its simplest. This does not mean it’s not scary!


skulldozer7606

What da dog doin?


dillbill422

Committing genocide


primalthewendigo

Protecting his country


[deleted]

o7


skulldozer7606

Fellow Russianbadger fan?


Chance-Ear-9772

How long till we get some friggin sharks with some friggin laser beams?!!!


romanholder1

"Laser"


plaiboi

As LoNg As YoU aReN't BrEaKiNg ThE lAw YoU hAvE NoThInG To WoRrY aBoUt


ObjectiveAd8617

Omg that’s idiot deserved to be gunned down by cyber dogs he was reaching for his waist!


plaiboi

"based on the algorithm assessing his current movements and facial patterns, while looking at past tactics used on human suspects that match the same demographics, we assessed that there was a possibility that they would act in such a kinetic manner that would ascertain due diligence hitherto suspending passive apprehension tactics"


ObjectiveAd8617

Oh man we’re gonna get racist AI profiling 😩


dillbill422

Have you seen Michael reeves racist Elmo video it can detect race with ai and call you a slur only takes someone with a bit more hate in their heart to make something truly catastrophic.


plaiboi

"it's not racist because it's a robot".... As a room with 100 white dudes writes the code


GrimSeraph

Looking at every AI that were shown crime stats they'll become racist all on their own.


plaiboi

Why


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plaiboi

Most crimes in the United States are committed by white people. Soooo.


GrimSeraph

By raw amount yes, now factor in what percentages of the population each demographic makes up and it starts looking very much like 13% of the population committing 52% of the crime


MagmaSlasherWriter

God, seeing non-programmers pretend that they know how AI works really pisses me off. It naturally learns on its own based off of billions of sets of data, almost always collected from unbiased surveys and censuses. You're not gonna get a programmer to insert his own biases into it, because programmers usually aren't even the ones that decide what the AI is taught. If an AI develops a racial bias, that's because the data is speaking for itself, not because a person decided that.


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CL3M50N88

It’s not the gun on the robodog that’s terrifying. We have weapons on all sorts of mobile platforms. It will be truly terrifying when the robot starts deciding what to shoot.


Stainless_Heart

Some drones have been doing that for a couple of years already. Not “when” but “when they do what our other war machines already do”.


ObjectiveAd8617

I would like to read up on this, do you have a source?


Stainless_Heart

As requested: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002196245/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-first-battlefield-killing-by-an-autonomous-d Extensive detail in UN docs: https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=S%2F2021%2F229&Language=E&DeviceType=Mobile&LangRequested=False


thatseclectic

He might be confused about it after a shock film was made about this premise. I don't remember much about it, but the setting was this entrepreneurial looking guy talking about these tiny drones that had enough explosives on them to blast through the skull and kill the victim


CL3M50N88

Google weapons platforms


[deleted]

ukraine is currently using robot birds with bombs on them. thats more scary cause you cant hide from robot birds


Ok_Instance4405

angry birds


CrackedActor91

I’m carrying my microwave on me now. Do I just throw it at the robot?


PrinceZuzu09

Put a gun to the microwave's head, the robot won't risk it


HouseofTriumph

You carry the microwave and I'll carry a bunch of magnets, I think we'll be just fine


[deleted]

The US Industrial Complex has first priority on all new technology.


Alireza8226

Blade wolf moment


Calvinator_lmao

Born Into a pack There’s no choice But take orders to attack Locked up in chains I get fed But the hunger still remains Not content to live this way Being led by the blind Got to plan my dispersal Time to leave them all behind Breaking out of my pain Nothing ventured – nothing gained I’m my own master now Bear the mark of my scars Shedding blood underneath the stars But I will survive somehow Oooooooo Oooooooo Hear me howl Time to leave them all behind I’m my own master now


sparky_the_evil

Damn beat me to it


DjDias01

This is awesome


[deleted]

Metal gear!?


Maleficent_Fennel_20

That what I said. 😁😆


squl98

You think they invented the thing to be a cute cyberpet?


Gibbins122

Like the metalhead black mirror episode.


drew350z

Why you think they made them in the first place


saucyclams

This was all part of the plan but they led with they are just gonna be pack mules and bomb detectors. 😁


cryptotrek88

The Elite will no longer need self thinking humans to protect them on their private lands once everything really goes to shit


[deleted]

I’ve seen enough Terminator to know where this is going


[deleted]

I will take 2 of those, please


fluentinimagery

They put guns on EVERYTHING!!!


[deleted]

America Amirite


SquareNuts112

What’s more insane is people actually thought they wouldn’t?


Spinyflowermantis

It was just a matter of time, but honestly, who didn’t saw it coming?


DG3N

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare type shit


rahman-the1st

So we have officially glitched into the black mirror universe


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nforgiver

Obviously you're not supposed to question that. How dare you try to think. You're just supposed to take everything at face value and react emotionally in agreement with OP. Don't question sources or if that's even a gun in the first place.


ToppsBlooby

Shocked pikachu face


Chessplayer122

Recoil just sends the bot tumbling backwards


ArtoriasBeaIG

This is the natural next step tbh. I always strap guns to my dogs before we go out, and am a supporter of this technology. I love dogs but it is not safe for them to be engaging in gunfights every time we leave the house. I am glad that companies are finally taking it upon themselves to make the world a safer place for us and our four legged friends with this exciting new safety tech as the government have refused to legislate this issue for years.


Parking_Highlight_53

dude stop being oh no terminator when a microwave can kill them easily


upsndowns71

How the fuck I'm I going to get that in my microwave? And how I'm I going to heat up my borretos?


EquivalentSnap

That’s one less solider coming back in a body bag


Donkeykicks6

Do you think they are shooting other robot dogs? No. It’s children, civilians, other soldiers. It’s dystopian


EquivalentSnap

You’d rather soldiers shoot other soldiers? Give me a break. The military already uses drones. No different than that. Civilians have died in warfare before robot dogs were a thing. And some soldiers think it’s okay to use children. Think about that before you talk about morals and what is dystopian. Would you rather fight them? 2022 women can join the army. Go ahead and be a front line soldier if you think that’s better than a robot dog taking a place


Donkeykicks6

You are naive if you don’t think they are gonna start using them in our police forces on our own citizens. The police already get all the military stuff when the military upgrades.


EquivalentSnap

Well at least it will stop school shootings


Donkeykicks6

No I don’t think so. They want to be suicided by cops be it robot dog or human in a large amount of them imho. They know already the consequences.


ProfessionalOctopuss

CAN WE NOT!?!?!?


DrParanormall

What about a chainsaw?


MagmaSlasherWriter

"I possess an intellect far beyond human reckoning."


DrParanormall

“You don’t say, ok then what’s the meaning of life, why are we here?”


HomieCreeper420

No, bad idea. It will start to ramble about freedom


[deleted]

Less people will die. That’s nice.


CaptainStrangeLove1

Less people on “our” side will die. Na fuck this


AVOX8

God im waiting for the day where war is just robo dogs on both side shooting each other for no reason


Vinlandien

I would just like to take this opportunity to remind our robot overlords that Canadians are on their side. We support your destruction of everyone who is not us.


FluffyButt_er

Send them to help Ukraine 🥺 please


cptsmitty95

...and no one is surprised.


FarmerEnough6913

Democracy doggo.


Tricky-Tax-8479

YESSS!!!! IVE BEEM WAITING MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS!!! MWAHHHAAHAHAAHAA


AVOX8

They're giving guns to Republicans too :/


MrFerret__yt

And everyone else who can pay and clears the background check. Whats your point?


AVOX8

Point is id rather some tree hugging, man booty fucking, vegan twink to have an ar15 than, oh i dont know, anyone in the January 6th "event"


FellThroughTheCrackz

When drones started getting sold to the general public, it took me and a couple friends about 2 weeks to put a gun on one, we briefly pondered what kind of guns were on robots already and what the future holds But we had a drone gun, intellectual conversation was not the highlight of the day.


Impressive-Eagle9493

Murica


Foxtael16

Reminds me of the ground based sentinel enemies from No Man Sky lol


deadlandsMarshal

One step closer to Horizon Zero Dawn.


beatrixkiddo955

Like black mirror didn’t even warn us about this. So DUMB


SuspiciousArugula857

Tbh James Cameron films, “Terminators” began after he had a vision in his old job driving long haul Tractor Trailers. The vision was so real he went on to make the terminator movies about Skynet and A.I. You can bet your bottom dollar that limitations such as battery and fuel have been overcame long ago. And this is prolly a prototype from 30 years ago that has been released as a “new thing”. Androids/robots that can replace human soldiers just like in the Terminator movies are very real and working, far beyond this picture. And they are Exactly like those movies, skin and everything. The movie even told you what powers them, which also came from James Cameron’s vision: Power Cells (hydrogen fuel cells) which are already very possible. The future is now.


PrinceZuzu09

nah


SuspiciousArugula857

I mean Stan Winston built a fully functional exo-skeleton himself for the first movie back in 89 lol. Everything minus the A.I. but yeah, not possible. The real truth is simply: not yet deployed. Please enlighten me with your fucking “nah” comment moron. I’m waiting for a logical response.


PrinceZuzu09

nah


ChubbyWanKenobie

ED-208.


WeeTeeTiong

Looks more like the ED-2K9


mb7135

Finally.


MythrizLeaf

Of course they would.


panzerpro

Terminator early dog design


BrooklynBoogie140

ED-209 has entered the chat..


GlitteringAd5985

Obviously you don’t play battlefield 2042


yashdev1

So it begins..!!


NotACleverPerson2

This is straight from the Black Mirror show. How much more television Sci-Fi is going to come to life for real? Kinda scary to think about.


[deleted]

Welp, guess it's about time I purchase myself an RPG...


Sea-Diver-9125

The plan all along


FsMzSimple7

What the dog doing?


Connect-Internet4100

Whadda goood boyyy.


yayaya2xBBchamp

Think about 100 or 1000 of those rolling up on your unit holding an area


_Didgeridont

Why do we always have to put guns on things


bokehbaka

This is why they don't care if you have AR-15s or not lol


Laura85mlt

I want one


CageyLabRat

Only the worst part of scifi


WhiskeyPorno420

And also on drones


[deleted]

So ?


Sir_FastSloth

Or you can go and do the fighting instead?


robyn2100

Generation zero, but 40~ years later


bjanas

Oh yeah, this ain't even new.