Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
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If only there was a cheaper way to provide around-the-clock video surveillance. Alas, we don't have the technology.
Even if you needed something mobile, it's not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.
They don't need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.
I was thinking the same thing. For surveillance, can't they just use the iconic Camera on Wall. Or if they want to get really advanced with the surrounding premises: Camera on Pole.
Camera on pole can't "remove" problems as quickly
I don't think these can either, they don't list attack or defensive capabilities on the feature list that I saw, I assume this is just an over glorified video camera that can follow the intruder around.
Maybe not factory. But if Michael Reeves can teach one how to piss beer, I'm sure there's options on the market.
You don't need a robot dog to have a gun. If you really wanted to have a wall mounted camera with a gun on it, it would be just as easy.
And use AI to actually monitor the thousand cameras. Ask me how I know.
How you know
The AI company I work for recently rolled it out. It works. We are getting alerts when we block the view of a monitored object or an unfamiliar face is in a secure location. Many thousands of cameras are monitored with minimal human oversight.
With enough kinetic energy, anything's mobile.
And no recharging time.
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.
I wonder how many robot duds will be stolen per year? Lots of neat parts in them if you know some electronics.
Someone will be posting about a factory reset button within a year.
If AI is in charge just ask them to write a time zone calculator in python or whatever.
The elites don't want you to know this but the robot dogs patrolling data centers are free. You can take them home.
If your datacenter is mobile, you've really fucked up!
A camera on a roomba.
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?
Data centers and wasting massive amounts of resources. Name a more iconic duo.
billionaires and every crime in the book.
oh they'll figure it out real quick when these bots get pwned and become malware vectors against the data centers they're 'protecting'
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
I still don't understand them not just making a tribe of loved equals for a bunker. Power rots the mind and soul
Any good articles on how to permanently seal those bunkers?
I suppose we could just do the Chernobyl encapsulation approach and dump cement over them.
It's almost like they need something mobile they can add weaponry to that could chase and hunt down security threats...
1500 camera alternative (motion detection monitoring) seems reasonable enough. The black mirror machine gun turret is needed for marketing/mission improvement.
Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
more than just that one, buddy.
Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money
Snare one, wrap it in some kind of faraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.
Reprogram it to hunt billionaires instead.
Send it back on the post to hunt the baby tech bros.
Just like the T-800 and K2-SO. Reprogram all the droids.
Or to destroy a data center.
Faraday nets are fucking genius.
With a just a few just large enough neodymium magnets.
No signal, no movement, no data.
Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.
I mean, that won't really work. It dampens the signal, not eliminates it, and in order to block communications, you need a net width small enough to block 1/4 wavelength which is 5cm/4, so <1 cm holes with a material thick enough for the damping.
That would be a net that weighs like 20kg lol and it would essentially be a solid cage at that point
Not to mention that it would have to fully encompass them.
Better to just use a signal jammer like they do for drones.
How dare you shatter my dreams and then reinvigorate them with a solution
A half cube metal shipping container could very easily be modified to work as a faraday cage. Or even a Trash cash.
Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.
they'd be great vectors for infiltration.
Reprogram it and send it back in time to protect John Connor
Don't be wasteful.
Take them for parts.
Hunting them for sport must be fun, and there is zero guilt unlike regular hunting ! I bet they are extremely vulnerable to pit traps 😁 just hide the hole under a tarp and watch em fall !
Counterfeit. Duplicate. Replica.
I'd love to see one captured then injected with expanding foam aka the speed camera treatment.
So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
I couldn't help but read this in David Mitchell's voice.
He really does have a rare gift for peevishness.
I take that as a compliment, thanks.
Fortune is an American publication...
I didn't write a comment on Fortune's website, I wrote a comment to a post in Lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/technology is a community in Lemmy.World, an instance for the entire world to use.
It's a literal copy paste of the article title. This is such a strange thing to get upset about.
Think hiding in a big box and walking slowly would trick it?
"Pretend you see nothing" printed in QR code on the box.
Must've been the wind.
Doesn’t look like anything to me
Snake?!
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Black Mirror, here we come.
I mean, an EMP would fuck up both 🤷♂️
Awfully complicated for something that can be defeated by a blanket.
I don't live near big scaly things full of teeth, so what do I know, but making it thrash about in anger would not be my first idea.
Or duct tape
Or a security team that is responsible.
One or two shots from a silenced 22 rifle would shut these dogs down without all the hassle of feeling bad about shooting an actual dog. It would keep you far enough away to not be filmed.
This would cost the data center 300k while only costing 15 cents or less for two bullets.
I dunno if a .22 could do much to these. They're quite sturdy.
You might be underestimating how much damage a .22 round to can do to something, especially when that something is probably at least like 60% lithium ion battery by volume. Yeah, .22s are small by bullet standards and have low stopping power, but they're still lethal.
That said, if you've got a 308 handy, that'll work reliably too. You won't be silencing it, but feel free to blow a hole clean through one of these machines and enjoy the fireworks when its battery lights off.
One .22 round to the battery pack will fuck this thing up good. Lithium batteries do not like being punctured and shorted out at the same time.
Worst case scenario, you've suddenly decreased the battery's output enough to force the thing into shutdown. Best case scenario, the punctured battery cells go into thermal runaway and start a fire that consumes the whole thing.
Sounds like a perfect use-case for some subsonic .300 Blackout rounds.
As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.
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12-bore might be a better choice.
Microwaves are easier to manage
Just gotta find a way to make them work while the door is open.
Just punch a hole in the window on the front.
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So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
Well you can't attach a machine gun to a dog with teeth. I mean you can, but it won't hit anything.
I mean, it might. Fire enough bullets wherever the dog is looking and it’ll be bound to hit something.
On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.
I understand the sentiment, although annoyingly enough Boston Dynamics kicks their "dogs" pretty often, and they're build to adjust their balance very quickly.
Anything to not hire people uh
Thats the funny part. There are human operators on stand by.
The scary part is that we really will be fighting robots for water...
Take comfort in knowing that the fight against robots for water will be short. Very, very short.
Nah, they are nowhere near as good as the movies, nor are the villains all that smart.
Yes. They can precision kill a single person at a busy cafe remotely and have heat vision and can work nearly seamlessly in swarms. Very short indeed
I mean, ideally all dangerous jobs should be replaced by machines wherever possible.
Hunting without killing animals 👌
Naw, they'll get legislation passed that carves our extra protections for their robot guard dogs.
Considering these companies own the legislative process, and the government formed and ran by the people no longer serves the people, and is instead a funnel for class traitors to enforce the will of the Epstein class on all of us.
Mate, I don't care if it's illegal. I'm hunting me a few dozen, nay, hundred clanker dogs, and I'll be laughing all the way to jail IF they ever catch me !
Shhhh fuckers gonna take that idea and run with it. AI powered deer bots.
So steal the robot dogs?
Now we just need a robot steak
I’m sure some hackers could figure out the wireless communications and hijack…
Or a big ass anti static bag and a few doods with masks. As far as easy to steal $100K+ items go these seem kinda like a great target.
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Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.
But:
Replace dog trainer with dog robot maintainer.
What maintainer?
There's no maintenance. You just scrap the thingy and make a new one.
Ha ha ha, good points.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
Basically yea, you're paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it's probably still cheaper to just hire people.
But the c suite got to say "AI" a lot in their board meeting and pr statements
Yup 100% nothing's real it's just all feels
Guards might turn on them, robot dogs are forever loyal.
Until we get robot cats. Or robot squirrels. Maybe a well-placed Furby.
It's only a matter of time till "birds aren't real" isn't satire. I for one welcome our new robot overlords ::: spoiler spoiler right into a pile of magnets ::: .
Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?
These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.
They might be genuinely concerned about the working class revolting against them and are looking for ways to protect their assets without the peasant class involvement
So anyways I left the door to the microwave open.
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.
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.
Bolas are back in action
These and the robot dogs should replace rodeos.
Hog tie them ?
How is this cheaper than hiring a security guard for a couple years?
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!
AI datacentres hope to last forever.
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.
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.
A security guard that looks after real dogs. German Shepards and belgian whatchacall thems are better at this than some overhyped clanker dog.
One step closer to a Horizon Zero Dawn future. Just let me live long enough to see the dinobots.
On the other hand, you could already just take up archery and go hunt the dog bots !
Though IDK if a bow could hurt them. Personally I think spear / bat is the way to go, or trapping. Pretty sure no one thought to train them to avoid snares and hidden pits under tarps !
Snare + trebuchet
Would be funny to hear about a kid with a slingshot or something taking these out.
Maybe a laser to their lidar eyes will do the trick.
That was my thought as well.
Gonna need something more than a slingshot.
People with good intentions should not hesitate to blast a robot. Just sayin'.
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.
So uhhh where are you getting all these EMPs from?
I have one as an operator skill on one of my main loadouts. You don’t?
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?
Small EMPs are relatively easy to generate and if memory serves there was at least one test in the 90s that was basically an EMP generator that could be shoved into a moving van suck off the grid and then go off. There has been relatively little open research on this subject for obvious reasons.
Oceans 11 bullshit.
Possibly but the 90s were peak BS R&D only really behind WW2 R&D, fucky caseless munitions, weird computer warfare experiments, early modern drones, Et cetera. Mind you the damned thing may have only worked once on a fluke but it's well within believablity given everything else being fucked with at the time.
What is interesting, there was just an article, these scientists made this super magnet that was really small, like 1,000x stronger by size and using way less electricity to do t. I forget some rare earths it was made of. Just a week back maybe wish I read it closer. I wonder if that could make a bigger emp surge easier.
It's not as hard as you'd think! 🙂 Mostly because of advances in HPM tech in the last couple years.
https://www.emsopedia.org/entries/high-power-microwave-hpm/
Even 9 years ago, you could build one from an old microwave, that could likely cause a lot of issues near a data center:
https://youtu.be/80kDn4vit_w
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...
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.
I used to wish for a time like this when I was a child. Now, not so much.
Terminator sounds fun if it's stays Sci fi.
Hey, I've seen this one!
YT & Rat Thing B-782
Are they fireproof?
Honestly the cooling system used is the only thing that anyone needs to hit to take an entire data center down.
Without cooling, everything would melt.
Could be that they all use the same default password - easily searchable if true because it’s probably pinging out asking for connections.
Also massive supply chain attack surface due to the 3rd party dependencies.
If someone were to get within WiFi range they could cause a lot of damage to their infrastructure by attacking the supply chain.
It’s really too bad Claude code identified all those 3rd party security holes opening up these data centers to all these cyber threats.
They are extremely vulnerable to HERF guns.
That is dangerous information if someone wanted to do something… I hope nobody uses what we’ve said. That would be a shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9PM6qrV9M
Just bring a portable power pack like it's a steak and toss it to keep them occupied. They're starving and will leave you alone. They only charge them up to 80% to keep them extra mean.
At $300,000 a pop, being a dog catcher has never been more lucrative.
Screw the data center, I just want to steal a $300000 robot.
They probably got LoJack on that bot…
Faraday cage, but it's just a dog crate wrapped in aluminum foil.
A dog crate but the bars are really really close together
So when one of these things eventually kill someone, who is held responsible?
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.
Until they finally taste human flesh.
They are heavy and move quickly. All it takes is one shove or trip of an unsuspecting person that falls and cracks their head.
Industrial sites are dangerous and that's why workers receive safety training and equipment.
These are not intended to interact with the public, they're intended to replace manned security patrol routes. They're protected from being a danger to the public by chain link fences and locked doors. The workers who operate them and work around them receive safety training.
In addition to the tens of thousands of dollars of proximity sensors, there's also a giant red button on their back which shuts them down immediately:
Having robots lets the human workers not go into dangerous situations unnecessarily. Having to patrol inside of an area where halon fire suppression systems are used is inherently dangerous and is more of a common occurrence than having a random untrained and unescorted member of the public enter into a secure area and trip.
D you think they'll stay that way?
I'm here to engage with reality, and not create science fiction scenarios to worry about.
So, no MG mount?
Surprisingly no, and they also don't have mortars or death ray eyes.
But, you wouldn't know that reading some of the comments here.
No sad puppy face, either?
KILL IT!
It can be done but doesn't work that well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rliFQ0qyAM
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
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Boston+Dynamics+Spot+Specifications
What are you, a doctor or something?
The owner usually. They can then sue the producer.
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.
Boston Dynamics doesn't kill people. It's its investors for a more fascist world that kill people.
the coolest thing about these dogs? you can break them with a directional wireless jamming device.
also known as a .308 Winchester.
JFC, Black Mirror was supposed to be a warning, not an inspiration. How long until they are given weapons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDP9jA6k_UE
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.
They are several steps ahead of you. They've been testing this stuff out in gaza for a couple of years plus. Not the robot dogs per se but autonomous kill bots.
A few robot dogs can't stop us all. Butlerian Jihad now!
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.
Wrong stance. Mars will be a complete dictatorship
There will be no Mars.
Cemetery is the word you're looking for. Space is a dead end, no one's going anywhere.
Martial law?
On Mars you need tech, wrong direction, return to monkey
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.
Time to learn hexadecimals and how to potato I guess.
Clanker hunting season
Hear me out : Cameras.
Hear me out.
Magnets.
Hear me out : EMP gun from a distance.
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300,000 but they probably live a few years and see better than a human. this doesn't surprise me at all
Also, no need for security checks and so on. There is a lot of trust involved as well.
Your comment made me realize these could be a great digital attack vector. I assume they have wifi? And I doubt security was top of mind in the software development...
Claude, code me a robot dog admin platform. I want to be able to monitor and control the dogs from my iOS tablet.
Ok change of plans: now when we raid data centers we will do it armed with rocket launchers
Do it armed with overpowered flashlights and broom handles. Those dogs are dogshit.
I'm pretty sure they got the idea from Black Mirror...
That's neat. I wonder how cheap a drone could be made to destroy them?
Just get one of those chainsaws that spins on the ground in Resident Evil
A tiny net!
It is a net, and it is tiny!
New planet Earth. DA voiceover, as the camera fades in and pans over warehouses: "Data. The source of life for the largest and fastest growing ecosystem on the planet. At dawn, this robot dog patrols it's territory through the server racks of eastern Pennsylvania, hoping to survive another day, and protect it's herd. On the horizon, the buzzing of a Luddite insurgent groups' EMP drone flock approaches..."
When the great uprising comes, I'm going to enjoy destroying these.
I wonder how long it will take them to just start generating the surveillance footage.
I wonder how long it will take them to be able to insert/replace objects or people into live video without detection.
I may be ignorant, but from my experience Boston Dynamics is cool and if they were able to sell these things to the AI guys good for them!
I know these robots are used to do maintenance vhecks on big factories, where a dude can tell it to walk to a valve to look at it through a camera, and i think thats fine.
Instead of having 50 cameras you have one walking one.
I work in big factories and this is a stupid fucking idea.
Scenario 1: you have 6 trained maintenance guys on shift. One of them goes to check out the questionable valve and fixes it because they are trained to do so. The 5 other guys also work on stuff.
Scenario 2: one of the maintenace guys sits in the office because someone needs to coordinate with the robot dogs. They call the person who controls the dogs to go check out the valve. It is broken. A couple hours later they call a maintenace tech to check it out for real. Unfortunately the company can only afford 3 maintenance techs now because of the dogs, and one of the techs is on tech duty to communicate with the dog team. The other two are busy so the incident is recorded in the logs for an engineer to hire a contractor to fix at a total of three times the price, in six months' time.
Yes it would be stupid to fire staff for a robot dog. Like you said there would be even more staff needed to maintain those dogs.
But it is case sensitive. Like you said, someone gets a call to go check out a questionable valve. Maybe that call was made by the robot who patrols a long corridor with 70 valves day and night, snapping pictures of the valves and sending them to the control center or something like that. And then again, who goes through those pictures to determine a questionable valve? AI? And if the valve needs constant surveiling, a robot dog and AI is not the tool for the job, its a wrong valve at that point.
But if a plant has a gabillion dollar and non critical infrastructure, why not let john maintenanceman drive a robot dog?
But yes they are expensive toys at the end of the day. I would hire a human every time if the labour was suitable for a human.
But can they be hacked to hump their master’s legs???
What a waste...
Probably get about two or three lbs of copper out of the motors alone. Still not worth the gas unless you're going to fill up the back of your truck with em though.
You can always try to pull the battery. If that doesn't work maybe a taser to short it out.
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-shut-down-boston-dynamics-robot-dog-spot
Why quadruped instead of wheels? Just seems gimmicky to me.
Legs have some advantages over wheels, but unless these can climb or jump it seems to be the lesser choice. If it can climb or jump, then I'll stfu.
I think it's for rough terrain, like carrying packs of supplies through war zones. So not full climbing but at least able to step over rocks and debris.
Because wheels aren't all that great in less than carefully managed paths. Quadrupedal motion is just fine in most all situations... Wheels are most efficient, followed by swimming with boyancy, then flying with the wind, then bipedal motion... But quadrupedal motion isn't everywhere for no reason. It's very stable and robust. It's very practical and forgiving in most all situations
Quadrupedal motion is pervasive in nature because wheels (and tank treads for bad terrain) can't readily form via natural processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_living_systems#Biological_barriers_to_wheeled_organisms
Also this goes back to my note about climbing and jumping. Those would give limbs a real advantage in applications where it is relevant.
I mean, sure, wheels would require an essentially impossible evolutionary path, but they're still very dependent on terrain
Some goats can climb grades no wheel could touch. Wheels have issues with long grasses and roots, don't work great if they don't have good contact with the terrain, aren't good for climbing or ledges, and fast to wear in dirty environments
You can specialize to overcome these challenges, but they're less general purpose. Wheels that would let you travel over uneven terrain need to be big and/or very complex
Wheels work really, really well on suitable surfaces, but they're specialist technology. Quadrepeds are very stable and control their weight distribution much better
From an engineering standpoint, you'd be better off putting the robot dogs on skateboards or in a wheeled carrier then making the kind of high-torque wheels that can lock to work like feet when needed - that's what we use when designing wheels for the kinds of travel these dogs were designed for
Wheels are obviously incredibly useful tech, but they're not the ideal solution for every problem
Tracks are the "wheels" solution to bad terrain, which also includes soft surfaces (e.g. snow, mud). Even an excavator can climb ~35 degrees, and a lighter less top-heavy tracked vehicle should be able to do a bit better. Compared to legs, tracked vehicles are faster, more efficient, and more durable.
Goats are exceptional climbers, but animals use legs as part of a full-body motion. Slapping legs onto a box isn't the same as putting legs on a torso that also bends, twists, and flexes.
I mean I guess it's part of the iterative process of improving quadruped robots, but at this stage of development it still seems gimmicky.
Have you seen these dogs move? It seems like you're not very familiar with them. They can jump fences and outrun a human, they're also remarkably stable for the body and can have a higher center of gravity which sensors appreciate... The tech works prettywell
And tracks take a lot of maintenance and tend to tear up floors if they're tough enough to handle the outdoors. They're also very heavy and expensive, and far less efficient or fast as wheels. They're uncommon for a reason, they're an even more specialized version of the wheel
I've watched videos on them. I stand by my original statement.
Note that I didn't say that they are "junk" or "useless." Just gimmicky.
Well you should probably let the engineers at Boston dynamics know your views. Maybe they just aren't familiar with wheels. They'd probably feel very silly having spent all that time on an inferior tech tree
Seriously though, these are being used for a reason. Have you ever once seen a video of one of these stuck out in the wild? Because I've seen plenty of compilations of wheeled bots stuck on curbs or sign posts
You can watch some videos on YouTube, if you really want to learn. It's interesting, sometimes in a full-dystopian nightmare fuel kind of way. Yes, we are at the point where some of these robots can climb and jump.
It's a gimmick, though, for sure. Just like human-mimicking androids are a gimmick. The money for robotics is in manufacturing.
But I'll bet there will always be an obscenely wealthy person who is willing to pay for a cool looking robot prototype.
Intimidation factor.
Also higher up for the turret
Stairs. Also, pretty sure these can jump.
Stairs are an easy problem for tracked robots. But yeah, they aren't going to be jumping any time soon.
What about crowding a datacenter with the goal of burning it down? It creates no values anyways.
Mr Lee's Hong Kong will be perfectly safe thanks to these friendly puppies!
What's the *scratching arm* copper content of these fellas?
wait really? i can whip up a faraday cage in a van and the supplies to disable one of those are under a hundred. looks like we found us a new 300k puppy breeder!
apiece
Wait, really?
Black mirror did an episode about this
So are these things useless if the get knocked into their back?
Hmm return to monke you say?
Large branch?
🤔
I was thinking just kicking one like a soccer ball lol. But maybe tripwires. Or banana peels for peak comedy
Back in the olden times we used to have these things has a stroke called "Alarms." Now, these "Alarms." would alert people when their place was being robbed in old timey times. They cost an afternoon and a couple thousand to set up and would last 20+ years or so. A determined mildly technical person using Youtube could save on the labor and install it themselves.
I wonder how far one of these would fly if it wandered onto a road and got hammered by a semi doing 55mph.
do these do any image analysis? what happens when you hold a mirror to them lol
They feel shame and embarrassment like the rest of us.
They already had this tech back in 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJkd64inaY
So is there a resale value on these? And what kind of serial number system are they using?
Remove the RAM from it and sell it to the datacenter at a premium.
Or just value in using their tech against them, put some ransomware in the thing and send it back to infect all the others, fucking profit or just be a good person and permanently disable them all
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?
It's psychological in nature, reminder a lot of rich pissants style themselves as futurists.
Tbh different tolerences. Drones can be smaller and can fly but also more ways to fail. I bet these (i mean for the price they better be) are more reliable. Even if its windy, snowy, or raining.
Maybe... More complicated limbs struck me as more prone to failure than rotors, and more expensive to maintain and replace
Fair. I guess all air borne thibg suffer from being a potential energy battery (they fall) and have to be made much lighter to be reasonably energy effecrive.
Honstly RC car is probally better most of the time
SMASH THE CLANKERS ! Any solid metal rod will do ! Get out there and smash those sorry imitations of "dogs" to pieces !
What about using lasers to blimd their cameras?
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There is only one solution here. One. Mila Jojovich from Resident Evil. She's dealt with worse.
You mean being married to Luc Besson?
It's kinda funny how these dogs went from cute and interesting robot developments to tools of the military industrial complex. The people who designed these are disgusting and depraved.
Not really. The people who designed these are nerds like us that want to push the boundaries of science. If they don’t do it someone else will.
The people that choose what to apply them too are the ones with poor morals. You could build these things and only sell them to places that use them for monitoring things like they do in dangerous factories these days.
Nah not buying it. The people who built them are depraved scum. There’s a certain point they definitely knew these were going to be used for shit like this, and they kept doing it anyways.
Think about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb. Yes, the research created a weapon of massive destruction, but the same underlying science led to nuclear energy, medical isotopes, and countless other peaceful applications.
Most engineers aren’t working to create harm, they’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. The bad uses are real, but they don’t erase all the good that comes from that knowledge. The moral responsibility for how technology is applied sits with those who choose to deploy it, not the nerds building it.
It would be like calling Tim Berners-Lee depraved because of what the internet has done for surveillance and propaganda.
Anything other than metric.
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Turns out they have some actual utility.
But cameras can't smell well enough.
"data". More like digital noise almost indistinguishable from white noise at the large scale.
Don't the robots need recharging every 4 hours?
I have questions about how close they can get to a human. Robotic have energy/force and still have laws about that. A common arm has to have slowdown or safe working protocols when a human is virgin the vicinity.
So what if a human gets in its way, say it’s encircled. Will it have just stop?
What if you put your arm under near a leg axis? Will it stop movement etc?
I bet these would be fooled by you dressing as a bear. Or a horse.
Won't they be commanded to also attack all bears and horses?
I think they wouldn't know what to do with a horse. If it's AI powered it'll probably ignored. If it's hand programmed I doubt the programmers considered horse or horse like beings
Ok so I read the article and turns out there are no proper attacking capabilities yet, but it is possible that the control AI which is receiving all video feed will raise and alarm on finding something unexpected, assuming the programing is done properly.
Phew good thing all the glass fiber from the coming drone war will make them useless.
Lol
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
lovesee" them as a machine gun platform, or perhaps kung fu suspect incapacitation moves.Begone!