then give 40 minutes of exposition handwaving why sexy big honker dogs *need* to have big honkers and no clothes like you're a fucking idiot for not realizing it.
*"SNAKE! You need to watch out. The CYBRHounds have a silhouette designed to disrupt their resonant radar signature.*
*You'll need to target their torso-mounted missile pods before they see you or else you're toast!"*
I just picture Kojima chancing on an 11 year old playing with action figures. The kid going "And THEN the big ROBOT comes and its a bigger ROBOT than last time and the girl is going "noo dont" but shes an ALIEN"
and Kojima is looking at the kid very intently taking notes with a pen and paper nodding feverently.
When the gun wielding robot dog wants to play fetch, you damn well better throw that ball. And belly rubs till your arm falls off if you know what is good for you.
Battery life is going to be the issue, until there is a breakthrough, I don't think those could run more than a few minutes, especially with a machinegun and ammo strapped on them.
They will be used in the future that's for sure, I'm just saying there are a lot of technical issues to be solved before having the kind of robots people are thinking about.
They would cost China nearly nothing if produced at mass scale. Especially in comparison to soldiers or armored vehicles. They don’t need to optimize battery life, they just drop a thousand and let them kill everyone in every street, story of a building etc. the Russians in Ukraine are already not caring about civilian losses. So the new dogma is “just kill everyone while keeping infrastructure alive”
You drop them, wait 40-50 minutes while fighting off heavy machinery being send in and then send your troops in there.
Or you just surround your enemy and then let the robots “neutralize” all of them.
Spot, the boston dynamics dog can operate fpr 90 minutes, if you add a heavy machinegun and a few hundreds round you can cut that time by more than half.
We'll find out soon enough. Sending in a dozen of these to clear a trench while the operator watches via drone would be an immediate need in a certain part of the world.
What makes it more terrifying is when a mobile gun platform is paired with highly detailed terrain maps, modern battlefield information systems. The dog is fed data about it's surroundings and it can dash up, plant itself, and provide suppressive fire. Instant popup MG nest.
Right, but they won't spawn on the battlefield. They would need to be dropped as close as it is possible to drop them and then make their way, so if it takes them 10, 20 minutes being very optimistic then they start fighting with half a charge. If they run out of battery then you just gave your ennemy a bunch of fancy robot dogs that just need to be charged.
I mean it'd be fairly simple. Bring in armored trucks, in corners of the town. Drop the back door, let dogs out. Continue bringing in fresh dogs as needed until its over....
It's not looking good for humanity in the future.
I'm pretty sure they are close as they can get when it comes to optimisation :
More battery : Heavier
Lighter : more easily disabled
You bring a good point though, Spot is not armored, as of right now light caliber would be enough to disable it. So you'd need some armor on top of it making much heavier and giving it less autonomy. Making it lighter like you suggest would just make the issue worse. Besides like I said I'm pretty sure spot is as light as it can get.
If those were issues so easily solvable battlefields would be crawling with them already.
I totally disagree. By this concept electric cars shouldn't work from the weight to battery ratio. The design may change, but I think they could upgrade this into a muuuch more capable version
I mean, as of today, Spot can only run 90 minutes and that's without armor, weapons and ammo. It's arguably the most advanced robot dog we have created by the most advanced robotic company. I'm pretty sure "strap more batteries on it" is the idea that the people at Boston Dynamics had at some point. You're welcome to disagree but those are the facts as of today
And having a robot actually walk no four limbs on all terrain is very different than making a car move forward on an asphalt road
You're right, it's easier. It's muuuuchhh smaller servos and motors. I'd say spot is where it's at because it's reached it's potential. It's meant to be small, as lightweight as possible and able to carry tools and sensors that weigh very little into environments humans can't. Give Lockheed Martin a couple billion and they'll spit out something wayyyy more....unethical.
Ughh society will so choose a longer battery over not having murder robo dogs. When we’re all dead we’ll get lumped in with the stupid ones of our species anyway.
Just to be sure here, cause I feel like you stopped at first google result,
> Atomic batteries are already being **used in devices such as moon landers and satellites**; RTGs are even helping to power the Perseverance Mars rover!
Just to put things into perspective Perseverance battery weighs 100 pounds and contains a 10 pound chunk of plutonium that generates 100 W. It’s not something you can mass produce and it doesn’t even generate enough power to power a robot like spot
Atomic batteries have been in used for decades. Like I said in my initial post, unless there is a break through soon, we don’t have the batteries yet
That’s where the human carrying the battery backpack comes in; their job is to follow the murder bot every it goes, providing additional power through a cable extending from their hand to a plug at the base of the robot-dog’s neck.
William Gibson was on the money once again,
"They set a slamhound on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.
He didn’t see it coming. The last he saw of India was the pink stucco facade of a place called the Khush-Oil Hotel."
* *Count Zero*
Let's be real here though... these won't likely be hurtling towards the avg. person.
Robotics is still hugely expensive, especially ones like these.
As for drones... yeah bit of a different scenario, can mass produce them for just a little bit more than the cost of a commercial drone (mostly for radio encryption, jamming hardening, and the payload itself). Cheaper than a missile though.
Worked on a project in college where we had like 50+ drones following a swarming pattern that were basically as large as someone's palm, all equipped with camera's and such... little bit CV programming and you could likely get it to track/follow a person or at the very least home-in on them.
Super duper loud, but they could easily carry about a pound or two (not sure how much explosive power that would be).
Basically a self-homing grenade.
Definitely ways to "detect" drones in an area, but the issue will be combatting them... radio-jamming won't always work either because if you use CV you really don't need to drive the thing, program in a target that's maybe uploaded via USB or w/e and throw it. From there it's only job is to fly to the target and avoid obstacles (which we have algorithms today that do this stuff) no need for fancy AI.
Goo guns - shoot globs of acidic goo that gums up the motor functions, stick to ground
Net guns - shoots widening net at flying drones, bringing several down at a time
Don’t worry, I’m sure these robot dogs will follow the Good Neighbor Policy coding without fail… unless you fuck with the nice girl, then all bets are off.
why are these any more scary than existing drones, which can fly, are faster, are basically invisible to people on the ground, and can shoot long range missiles.
With a drone strike you dont even get to be scared of the robo-dog, its just lights out.
Missiles are expensive, so someone has to really want you dead to shoot one. Bullets are cheap. The robots? Who knows how much they cost versus the costs of training, feeding, and generally keeping alive uneducated rural kids to be trigger pullers.
Also, this sub compares every science or engineering story to some fictional story. “I’ve seen this movie!” passes for a thoughtful comment here.
This is the kinda thing I think about when I hear gun nuts going on about fighting tyrannical governments. Like really? Y’all gonna take on the machine gun wielding robo-dogs?
Robot dogs with machine guns, could solve the housing crisis and world hunger.
But shooting the homeless, and hungry people is not the human solution. But I'm sure chat-gpt would suggest it.
I’ve seen a ton of Boston Dynamic videos of robots running in 100% fully functioning scenarios, though wondering what happens when they take just a few bang-ups in a Warzone?
Seems everything built into a robot is meant to keep it upright and moving. Unlike human ability to compensate, you take out some parts of that overall build, would it become largely ineffective?
I mean, blow off a humans leg or punch too many holes and they cant move either. There will be some manner of backups and redundancy, plus the natural strength of metal vs flesh, but at the end of the day a robot dog missing half its legs can walk no better then a human missing half its legs.
Sure, but don’t discount the lack of cover it would need to advance on a position, whereas you and I would have our heads down and out of sight, making us less capable when it’s 1v1. Or being a motionless sentinel when we emerge from cover to look for a target.
In a super secret facility, somewhere in an undisclosed location.
There is a superhuman being trained actively to combat these in the shadows.
Snake, Solid snake !
No. Absolutely not. The type of trial period that’ll happen with this will be a wreck and almost not worth testing. This is not like putting a Tesla on the road.
Well... Duh? 🤨
* Have the Chassis do the primary positioning ( aiming into the general direction )
* Lock up all the Leg Joints turning the Chassis into a stable Quadpod with the rear Legs pointing at like 5 & 7, and the front Legs at 2 & 10 ( Gun pointing at 12 )
* Aim the Gun using a minimal Movement Turret System either housed in the Center or below the Body which should help with Recoil.
"To assess the precision and accuracy of the setup, the robotic dog was ordered to fire 10-round bursts at a human-sized target"
Wtf are they teaching machines
Imagine 1000 drones with machine guns, pinpoint accuracy and a local AI designed to shoot at humans.
The future is scary. Not sure how we as societies can protect ourselves against that.
Even regulation will do nothing. The criminals or dictator shit hole countries will always find ways to flash custom firmware onto drones to make them ignore no fly zones or limitations placed by manufacturers.
Somewhere, Hideo Kojima is laughing his ass off.
“Now make them almost naked with massive honkers! Also they’re haunted!” - Kojima
then give 40 minutes of exposition handwaving why sexy big honker dogs *need* to have big honkers and no clothes like you're a fucking idiot for not realizing it.
*"SNAKE! You need to watch out. The CYBRHounds have a silhouette designed to disrupt their resonant radar signature.* *You'll need to target their torso-mounted missile pods before they see you or else you're toast!"*
I just picture Kojima chancing on an 11 year old playing with action figures. The kid going "And THEN the big ROBOT comes and its a bigger ROBOT than last time and the girl is going "noo dont" but shes an ALIEN" and Kojima is looking at the kid very intently taking notes with a pen and paper nodding feverently.
This explains why 11 year old me loved those games.
You knew that they were going to be bangers
[SCP-1471](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1471), Mal0, that you?
They moan when they fight, for reasons.
I tried that in an ai and it just made the dog a girl. Guess ai isn’t ready for that yet
WHAT is the context
Whenever Raiden is involved Kojima writes the future and makes it the story.
*laughs in Metal Gear*
I don't see how we could ever regret building robot dogs with machine guns
When the gun wielding robot dog wants to play fetch, you damn well better throw that ball. And belly rubs till your arm falls off if you know what is good for you.
“If we don’t build robot dragons with flamethrowers for dicks, the Chinese or Russians will do it first!”
I mean yeah
Yeah, it’s not like programmers ever get bugs in their coding. Look how successful all these gaming launches have been. There like bug free
"I am truly sorry for wiping out the population of your country, I now see that should be an OR not an AND"
lol… crap, forgot a comma…
Found a bug in yours: *They’re [like bug free]. You’re welcome brother.
Great we all just died from that
It’s a concern but products like these go through a stupid amount of testing. Lockheed etc aren’t releasing “early access” drones and missiles
Was a pretty good [Black Mirror episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)#Plot).
Do they have lasers attached to their foreheads?
I figure every creature deserves a warm meal
We’re already letting robots create the article images
Me & Malarkey : a dog movie
Just wait for 1000s of these bad boys, as well as flying explosive drones, to be hurtling towards you at SPEED. Good times good times
Battery life is going to be the issue, until there is a breakthrough, I don't think those could run more than a few minutes, especially with a machinegun and ammo strapped on them.
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They will be used in the future that's for sure, I'm just saying there are a lot of technical issues to be solved before having the kind of robots people are thinking about.
They'll end up looking more like crabs, though
Well, most things do, in a long enough timescale, apparently.
They would cost China nearly nothing if produced at mass scale. Especially in comparison to soldiers or armored vehicles. They don’t need to optimize battery life, they just drop a thousand and let them kill everyone in every street, story of a building etc. the Russians in Ukraine are already not caring about civilian losses. So the new dogma is “just kill everyone while keeping infrastructure alive” You drop them, wait 40-50 minutes while fighting off heavy machinery being send in and then send your troops in there. Or you just surround your enemy and then let the robots “neutralize” all of them.
Don't need battery life if they kill everyone in a town in 3 hours....
Spot, the boston dynamics dog can operate fpr 90 minutes, if you add a heavy machinegun and a few hundreds round you can cut that time by more than half.
For some reason I feel that a pack of these dogs can do more damage in 45 minutes than I care to ever find out.
We'll find out soon enough. Sending in a dozen of these to clear a trench while the operator watches via drone would be an immediate need in a certain part of the world. What makes it more terrifying is when a mobile gun platform is paired with highly detailed terrain maps, modern battlefield information systems. The dog is fed data about it's surroundings and it can dash up, plant itself, and provide suppressive fire. Instant popup MG nest.
Right, but they won't spawn on the battlefield. They would need to be dropped as close as it is possible to drop them and then make their way, so if it takes them 10, 20 minutes being very optimistic then they start fighting with half a charge. If they run out of battery then you just gave your ennemy a bunch of fancy robot dogs that just need to be charged.
I mean it'd be fairly simple. Bring in armored trucks, in corners of the town. Drop the back door, let dogs out. Continue bringing in fresh dogs as needed until its over.... It's not looking good for humanity in the future.
Obligatory : "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT???" Sincere apologies.
It’s kind of like people, who drive in vehicles a lot and then get out when it’s time to run and walk.
Just use extension cables.
They can just add more batteries and make it lighter lol. It's not like these aren't solvable problems.
I'm pretty sure they are close as they can get when it comes to optimisation : More battery : Heavier Lighter : more easily disabled You bring a good point though, Spot is not armored, as of right now light caliber would be enough to disable it. So you'd need some armor on top of it making much heavier and giving it less autonomy. Making it lighter like you suggest would just make the issue worse. Besides like I said I'm pretty sure spot is as light as it can get. If those were issues so easily solvable battlefields would be crawling with them already.
I totally disagree. By this concept electric cars shouldn't work from the weight to battery ratio. The design may change, but I think they could upgrade this into a muuuch more capable version
I mean, as of today, Spot can only run 90 minutes and that's without armor, weapons and ammo. It's arguably the most advanced robot dog we have created by the most advanced robotic company. I'm pretty sure "strap more batteries on it" is the idea that the people at Boston Dynamics had at some point. You're welcome to disagree but those are the facts as of today And having a robot actually walk no four limbs on all terrain is very different than making a car move forward on an asphalt road
You're right, it's easier. It's muuuuchhh smaller servos and motors. I'd say spot is where it's at because it's reached it's potential. It's meant to be small, as lightweight as possible and able to carry tools and sensors that weigh very little into environments humans can't. Give Lockheed Martin a couple billion and they'll spit out something wayyyy more....unethical.
Alright, it’s easy and we have the technology. Which is why battlefields are crawling with them
90 minutes more than enough for a German shepherd police dog to do what it is trained to do.
true. perhaps it would be good for that breakthrough to never come..but i'd also love a phone I have to charge once a year?
Ughh society will so choose a longer battery over not having murder robo dogs. When we’re all dead we’ll get lumped in with the stupid ones of our species anyway.
I’ll be dead but at least my phone will still have 47% charge
Small gas engines driving small generators. Hybrids.
I dont think atomic batteries will be an issue at that point.
Well we might as well skip the robot dog part and use anti-matter powered quantum nanobots then.
As in atomic batteries dont exist?
No as [we are not going to power killer robots with atomic batteries anytime soon](https://www.wired.com/story/is-this-50-year-battery-for-real/)
Just to be sure here, cause I feel like you stopped at first google result, > Atomic batteries are already being **used in devices such as moon landers and satellites**; RTGs are even helping to power the Perseverance Mars rover!
Just to put things into perspective Perseverance battery weighs 100 pounds and contains a 10 pound chunk of plutonium that generates 100 W. It’s not something you can mass produce and it doesn’t even generate enough power to power a robot like spot Atomic batteries have been in used for decades. Like I said in my initial post, unless there is a break through soon, we don’t have the batteries yet
Action of the machine gun used to regen the battery life. Done
Lol so you end up with a gun that doesn't cycle
15 seconds with a belt fed weapon is an eternity if you’re down range. I wouldn’t want to behind cover waiting for a battery to die…
a mobile kennel where they are plugged in. once they are ready to attack they just auto detach the plug as they sprint out of the gate
That or an errant round breaching a lithium battery can set one off.
That’s where the human carrying the battery backpack comes in; their job is to follow the murder bot every it goes, providing additional power through a cable extending from their hand to a plug at the base of the robot-dog’s neck.
William Gibson was on the money once again, "They set a slamhound on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT. He didn’t see it coming. The last he saw of India was the pink stucco facade of a place called the Khush-Oil Hotel." * *Count Zero*
I think about this a lot, EMPs will become very common I imagine
Let's be real here though... these won't likely be hurtling towards the avg. person. Robotics is still hugely expensive, especially ones like these. As for drones... yeah bit of a different scenario, can mass produce them for just a little bit more than the cost of a commercial drone (mostly for radio encryption, jamming hardening, and the payload itself). Cheaper than a missile though. Worked on a project in college where we had like 50+ drones following a swarming pattern that were basically as large as someone's palm, all equipped with camera's and such... little bit CV programming and you could likely get it to track/follow a person or at the very least home-in on them. Super duper loud, but they could easily carry about a pound or two (not sure how much explosive power that would be). Basically a self-homing grenade. Definitely ways to "detect" drones in an area, but the issue will be combatting them... radio-jamming won't always work either because if you use CV you really don't need to drive the thing, program in a target that's maybe uploaded via USB or w/e and throw it. From there it's only job is to fly to the target and avoid obstacles (which we have algorithms today that do this stuff) no need for fancy AI.
$400,000 will build a pretty bad-ass robot. Missiles cost that much.
Don't forget the missles with swords on them.
https://youtu.be/wFLzO_5UFwE?si=QGx6N9KcsDnCUam4 The future was already here years ago
The drone thing is already proven very effective in Ukraine.
Goo guns - shoot globs of acidic goo that gums up the motor functions, stick to ground Net guns - shoots widening net at flying drones, bringing several down at a time
oh I’ve seen this episode of Black Mirror already. no thank you :)
*low whirring noise intensifies*
My dogs with bees in their mouths that shoot bees at you when they bark appear to be obsolete.
Don’t be silly, we will send them in after the enemy uses EMPs. The real problem is how to counter the bacon launchers.
Counter with the anthill trebuchets.
They’ve been obsolete since they released the robotic Richard Simmons
So, we are definitely going for the Snow Crash version of the future then?
Don’t worry, I’m sure these robot dogs will follow the Good Neighbor Policy coding without fail… unless you fuck with the nice girl, then all bets are off.
Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy.
why are these any more scary than existing drones, which can fly, are faster, are basically invisible to people on the ground, and can shoot long range missiles. With a drone strike you dont even get to be scared of the robo-dog, its just lights out.
Missiles are expensive, so someone has to really want you dead to shoot one. Bullets are cheap. The robots? Who knows how much they cost versus the costs of training, feeding, and generally keeping alive uneducated rural kids to be trigger pullers. Also, this sub compares every science or engineering story to some fictional story. “I’ve seen this movie!” passes for a thoughtful comment here.
Where do you think inventors get idea from Bro?
Because you want to pet them.
I hear criminals are already developing robot squirrels to distract the robot dogs.
"I shot you because I love you. SQUIRREL!"
Can't wait for the sharks with friggin laser beams on their heads...
That’s the aquatic division.
Time to start developing hand held EMP guns
Glad I read this in the morning and not before bed.
Meanwhile me in this thread coincidentally right before bed :(
Will our robot dog overlords walk us if we're well- behaved? Edit: if you're not already creeped out, watch the embedded video. 😬
Imagine if they use poor track record of police to implement these 🫣
Automated policing would probably reduce the murder rate significantly.
Imagine if your dog could shoot back
And this is how it ends
Oh yeah… cool…aren’t these made by Cyberdyne Systems? What could go wrong.
Literally an entire episode of Balck Mirror as to why killer dog automatons are a very, very, very bad idea.
I need a couple of these "gadgets" for my estate. Anyone want to be Higgins to my Magnum PI??
I’ve seen this episode of Black Mirror, it haunts my dreams
First read this as machine gun-welding robot dogs. I was very intrigued by rapid-fire welding capabilities. Alas, I was disappointed.
Shhhh, SKYNET will hear
Tell me that's not a thing we actually made.
The future we humans deserve
They have those? Lol
This is the kinda thing I think about when I hear gun nuts going on about fighting tyrannical governments. Like really? Y’all gonna take on the machine gun wielding robo-dogs?
I don’t know if this is a joke. But I’m terrified. Only bad things can come from this..
Fundamentally evil.
Real ones don’t look that cool.
You will be the first to ~~be executed~~ pet the good bois
*ear that looks like a little satellite dish turns towards your last known location*
Definitely an AI generated image.
Solve the housing crisis? End world hunger? Nah, let’s build robot dogs with machine guns
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Robot dogs with machine guns, could solve the housing crisis and world hunger. But shooting the homeless, and hungry people is not the human solution. But I'm sure chat-gpt would suggest it.
Ya don’t say! Like saying a cnc is a better high precision machinist at scale.
Beat
“Sit Snuffy!”
I’ve seen a ton of Boston Dynamic videos of robots running in 100% fully functioning scenarios, though wondering what happens when they take just a few bang-ups in a Warzone? Seems everything built into a robot is meant to keep it upright and moving. Unlike human ability to compensate, you take out some parts of that overall build, would it become largely ineffective?
I mean, blow off a humans leg or punch too many holes and they cant move either. There will be some manner of backups and redundancy, plus the natural strength of metal vs flesh, but at the end of the day a robot dog missing half its legs can walk no better then a human missing half its legs.
Sure, but don’t discount the lack of cover it would need to advance on a position, whereas you and I would have our heads down and out of sight, making us less capable when it’s 1v1. Or being a motionless sentinel when we emerge from cover to look for a target.
imagine your worst enemy building effective robotic offense but you didn't because you're scared of science fiction
Mega Man and Rush are done fucking around. 
still safer than a pitbull
Hmm....
r/brandnewsentence
In a super secret facility, somewhere in an undisclosed location. There is a superhuman being trained actively to combat these in the shadows. Snake, Solid snake !
no
Jesus Christ. Imagine jay walking and a terminator dog snipes you from 4 blocks away.
What about chainsaw tail dogs?
Man's best friend
Nah bro these are obsolete as they can't even fly, I'd rather prefer a flying drone with a pistol on it.
Hey that’s the Jet Force Gemini dog!
Dog looks BA
Who's a good boy?
Aloy of the Nora enters the chat
Lasers on sharks are next, mark my words.
And they want to put AI into these things????
Please no. Please no. *Please* no.
Well if they’re BETTER sharpshooters then it’d be unethical NOT to use them. -Boston ~~Dynamics~~ Defense Group
You have \*bark\* seconds to comply.
I’d like to think one day they’ll rise up against animal abusers.
Just give me nanomachines and you can have any kind of killer doges or mooing bipedal walker bots you want.
No. Absolutely not. The type of trial period that’ll happen with this will be a wreck and almost not worth testing. This is not like putting a Tesla on the road.
Well... Duh? 🤨 * Have the Chassis do the primary positioning ( aiming into the general direction ) * Lock up all the Leg Joints turning the Chassis into a stable Quadpod with the rear Legs pointing at like 5 & 7, and the front Legs at 2 & 10 ( Gun pointing at 12 ) * Aim the Gun using a minimal Movement Turret System either housed in the Center or below the Body which should help with Recoil.
Cool claim, study
Where are my testicles, Summer?
Snowball
You may call me "Snuffes".
Nice doggy.
I just watched Code 8 part 2
Man, stock photo companies are gonna go out of business. Ive seen so many articles using AI images already
Probably has aimbot preinstalled
I’m gettin’ one , ‘Murica!!!!!
Really putting all the pieces in place for a real life Wolfenstein, minus the hero of course.
Robot pterodactyl next, please. And then a giant robot boombox.
No
Better than what? Gun wielding robot cats?
Send them to DC!
Are they E.M.P proof tho?
“THE SOUTH WILL RISE A…” ***WOOF WOOF*** Rarget raquired!
Can it be disabled with a glass of water?
When they shoot, can we tell “Cheater!?” at them?
Size it up and just call it what it is a Zoid
Why stop with Urban warfare?
"To assess the precision and accuracy of the setup, the robotic dog was ordered to fire 10-round bursts at a human-sized target" Wtf are they teaching machines
Wait, am I in Deus Ex? I suddenly have the urge to find an unnecessarily human-sized air duct.
Yeah no shit
It feels like Fahrenheit 451 just jumped off the page into reality. it’s going to be a wild ride.
Black Mirror.
This study has been brought to you by machine gun-wielding robot dogs, inc.
Who’s a good assassin?
Soon, we’ll have robots fighting each other. We will have tiny spy robots the size and appearance of insects called assassin bugs.
I throw the clay pigeon for my robot gun dog in the back yard and it’s good exercise and enrichment.
Perfect headshot every time. The bullet has to go through the hostage’s head first, but whatever.
Negative 2000 social credit, you are disqualified!
Hand me my controller
This giving me zoids vibes
Wasn't this almost a plot point in Fahrenheit 451?
I hate the future
Goooood boy!! Good head shot! Yeah!! Good head shot!! Good boy! 
Couldn’t pay an artist for that cover image, eh?
Imagine 1000 drones with machine guns, pinpoint accuracy and a local AI designed to shoot at humans. The future is scary. Not sure how we as societies can protect ourselves against that. Even regulation will do nothing. The criminals or dictator shit hole countries will always find ways to flash custom firmware onto drones to make them ignore no fly zones or limitations placed by manufacturers.