• @mydude
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    357 months ago

    The wet dream of the 1% is coming true; Their own personal army with no moral compass.

    • SharkAttak
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      07 months ago

      On the bright side, it’s Chinese hard/software, so an ED-209 outcome is very probable, and highly anticipated.

    • @AMillionMonkeys
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      -97 months ago

      The 1% of China? I mean, I’m sure they have an elite, but the 1% thing is usually pointed out as a sore spot for capitalism.

      • @AFaithfulNihilist
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        197 months ago

        China is state capitalism anyway. There isn’t much Communist about them. The “party” is their 1% permanent ruling class.

        • @[email protected]
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          The “party” is their 1% permanent ruling class.

          Which is as communist as is realistically achievable. Percentage may wary but not by a lot.

          • @AFaithfulNihilist
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            147 months ago

            Communism is incompatible with private property or classes which is why no matter how many states write “communism” on the tin, what they actually put in it is just fascist enforced state capitalism.

            China is not more communist or even socialist than the USA. A strong ruling class loves fascism and hates socialism. They are actively hostile to communism.

      • @astropenguin5
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        17 months ago

        More like the .1% of the world, but also yes.

  • @iAvicenna
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    347 months ago

    it does not look like a derivative at all

    • NutWrench
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      167 months ago

      Both strongly resemble Boston Dynamics’s “Spot” robo-canine.

      I’m betting that’s exactly what they are, with some glued-on plastic detailing.

    • SharkAttak
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      27 months ago

      How dare you! China doesn’t copy, it just takes others’ ideas and improve them! sometimes.

  • @bassomitron
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    167 months ago

    I feel like these will be useless in all but limited circumstances. A modern battlefield in urban centers will be rife with small and large rubble, making these things unreliable in real world practice when you factor its ability to balance navigating obstacles and dealing with recoil. How does it reload? How long does its battery last? What happens when its weapon jams? Additionally, tricking current AI is fairly simple when you have the resources of a modern military.

    Anyway, it’s interesting to experiment with, but I just don’t think the technology is quite there yet. I think it’d probably be more effective to create self-destructing bomber robot dogs than gun toting ones with our current tech.

    • @[email protected]
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      547 months ago

      I’m less concerned about how these are deployed against soldiers as I am about how they’re being provided to police departments as they are in the US.

      • ME5SENGER_24
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        257 months ago

        This is exactly my concern. These little bullet dogs patrolling the street with someone able to take control of the trigger and blame it on a malfunction

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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        Ding ding ding. Rubble-covered battlefields aren’t the end-goal here. The end goal is urban warfare, precision strikes, and area denial by police. Cops can post these on patrol outside of a billionaire’s house. Charging isn’t an issue, because you can simply have them automatically return to base for charging, and patrol in automatically rotating shifts.

        Or have them near protests, and “accidentally” start killing people. When people get upset, cops will go “oops it was a malfunction. Too bad you can’t blame us for that. Because of, ya know, the malfunction. It totally malfunctioned. 100% wasn’t programmed to kill on sight, to break up the protest quickly. Nope, definitely a malfunction.”

        • @Maggoty
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          17 months ago

          You can’t stop a mob with live fire. Patrolling though, yeah.

    • @Maggoty
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      17 months ago

      There’s a use case for a crawling camera. They’re pretty good at going over rubble if they aren’t trying to shoot at the same time. For self destructing drones flying ones are easier and cheaper to manufacture.

  • HEXN3T
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    157 months ago

    Horizon is a WARNING, not a SUGGESTION!

  • @Agent641
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    97 months ago

    Lets see it clear a jam tho.

  • @Maggoty
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    17 months ago

    Well I hope their urban training is still that bad if we ever have to fight them. And the robot dogs seem like a good idea until one of them gets introduced to OPFORs size 12 boot.