Hear me out : Cameras.
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.
SMASH THE CLANKERS ! Any solid metal rod will do ! Get out there and smash those sorry imitations of “dogs” to pieces !
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.
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.
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.
I wonder how far one of these would fly if it wandered onto a road and got hammered by a semi doing 55mph.
Would be funny to hear about a kid with a slingshot or something taking these out.
Gonna need something more than a slingshot.
Maybe a laser to their lidar eyes will do the trick.
People with good intentions should not hesitate to blast a robot. Just sayin’.
Black Mirror, here we come.
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 !
So steal the robot dogs?
No. KILL the robot dogs ! Much more fun.
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.
So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
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.
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.
guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
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.
I couldn’t help but read this in David Mitchell’s voice.
I take that as a compliment, thanks.
He really does have a rare gift for peevishness.
the coolest thing about these dogs? you can break them with a directional wireless jamming device.
also known as a .308 Winchester.
