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Didn't darpa or whoever made the robo dog swear they weren't going to arm it?
this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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Think it was Boston Dynamics, but yeah.
Probably but I also know for a fact that development was done with DARPA and they were strapping guns to that thing before it was even publicly shown. When DARPA pulled funding later they said it was due to it being too loud for combat.
The goal was always to use this as an assault device of some kind.
It was too loud for combat and gave hearing problems to some troops lmao.
Ahahaha fuck the troops
iirc thats because batteries are too heavy/dont last long enough for military work so they had to power it with essentially a go-kart engine, making it almost as loud as a truck and ruining the stealth of any infantry unit its attached to like a humvee would. infantry often depend on stealth to maneuver into position so thats a no go for now but it wouldnt matter as much to police probably.
Good boy
This in fact makes it more likely to shoot because you can punish an operator for disobeying orders
This machine won't be machine-controlled, it will be controlled by a human!
Hold on, I am receiving news about the role of a human machine operator inside a military machine
Looking forward to truly dystopian Captchas: Prove you are human, click all squares with terrorists that need to be shot
"Please select all combat-aged males to proceed."
Every time I hear about these "human-in-the-loop" systems, I just imagine a guy mashing the A button to kill like he's skipping through a cutscene.
Boston Dynamics or w/e built this robot dog and now every PMC in the states is salivating at the very thought of strapping different guns to it.
These assholes were always going to do this shit
Nobody believed them for a second when they said these wouldn't be weaponized. Why else would you design these, to play fetch?
idk even as stupid and murderous as the militaries are, small arms robots are gonna be right next to your own guys, they don't mind robots killing civilians ofc but they probably would want to avoid trigger dog perforating one of their expensive operator hogs
I remember that episode.
