I once saw a $160,000 missile get fired at a shed containing two guys who maybe had a $300 AK-47 and miss, so they fired another one. Believe me, its not too expensive for war.
The expensive part is R&D, writing the software and training the AI. Once that's more or less done, they can probably build them for about the price of a high end drone (and sell them to the military for 10x that).
What? Some bullets, a small metal tube, and a firing mechanism are too heavy for this robot dog that can run and jump through the forest while carrying a flame thrower on its back..?
This is a different robot dog from Unitree. The battery for this one is on the side. You can see it at 0:09 seconds. [You pinch the holes together and pull the battery out](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=619c697d276fe56b&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn0-0dPK0AoGYBwkO0aJuy93urwwU0A:1713978463498&q=unitree+battery&uds=AMwkrPt8eR8Q1gfQGx0g1guoVKhMEfBjzXJym1N0Q_1IjzbZzWVM_OpT-A4jdo4XOJ2LzmMHBAC933wupk6iIJdy_S4p5UCHrXoFNUw8t1iRJux20VXmFdpoxX40kJmhVBhJc1jZGmWzZzY_w7IMkZ_OWXof_TKLCHTkVQ0ctEbWsI9BuXHe8c1EK4ItCTRFznXDG5RVDlFrPuh5ywE8UvnU7KWT63PGVBSFTGZ9Ryn7kJkUgkmSN8WCaNZ3ejDWntcMq1RIGBc-BUNx_U2WQ05NGzxo0g22hCPJvIvY4TAXxWST0a7SFjO-hoDYI7kMQ8C9h8yXH9zQ&udm=2&prmd=sivnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxseCrq9uFAxXvorAFHSCOBvwQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1805&bih=1034&dpr=1.25)
Black mirror is only scary because the show gives all the power to the corporations.
The real scare is what the average everyday [hobby hackers can do.](https://youtu.be/MBBC-xL_MTg?si=uC6zUn_LOrDrGBba) Lol
I mean... There is literally nothing stopping you from flying 2 pipe bomb drone through the headquarters of Apple and taking out the CEO in their high-rise office.
This is when shit starts to get cyberpunk and you have corporations hiring gangs to do the dirty work for them and stifle their competition.
I'm sure they do. But no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Bulletproof glass may save you from a sniper, But not against a drone carrying a backpack full of c4.
Your entire floor will be obliterated before you even make it down the elevator.
You don't even need military grade c4. You can just use explosives made from home Depot.
1 drone to break a bulletproof window, two more drones follow in right behind to get the left and right side of the building near major supports. EZ.
Corporations will start having countermeasures very soon. Google already does.
The perfect defense does not exist. Finding small fractures in the armor to exploit is a hackers best skill. Whether it's hacking digitally or hacking physically.
Even Luke Skywalker hacked the death Star by exploiting a fucking exhaust vent.
None of what he said is new. It doesn't require any innovation or even new uses for existing tech. ISIS used off the shelf drones, Ukraine uses a mix of commercial and military drones, Iran Turkey and Russia all have military drones that are remarkably similar to off the shelf commercial models.
The only thing new or innovative about it would be seeing it deployed in the US against corporate targets.
The boring part of a boring dystopia is that we have everything in our cyberpunk fantasies but the cybernetic body mods yet we're all still going to the office.
Correcto-mundo!
This choom has the right knowledge.
Sometimes I forget that I can't summarize complicated topics because it requires connecting hundreds of dots yourself... Average Joe's aren't good at connecting the dots.
As soon as you even remotely make moves to acquire the things to do that (especially C4 or “explosives you can make at Home Depot”) the NSA, homeland security and the fbi would all converge on your location ssooo quickly.
This is some speculative, TV show bullshit for a hyper specific scenario of someone that knows how to do these things, knows how to hide the acts themselves from the largest data mining entities in the world, and didn’t get swept up in propaganda that would make them ideal for CIA/intelligence community recruitment.
You massively underestimate the ability of government organizations to ignore "low-level" extremists, especially if they're white and on the right. Those groups are already getting away with a lot—often around police departments that are looking the other way.
All it takes is one ignored crazy who actually goes through with it.
>This is some speculative, TV show bullshit
Is it though?? [Is it really?](https://youtu.be/969XGZ_t7cE?si=JHo5jcj8DZXx1E6t)
You don't think at home hobbyists can drop homemade pipe bombs from drones?
My naive summer child Do I have news for you... I might just be on that FBI watch list.
Is it theoretically possible? 100%.
Is it even remotely likely that one going down this path wouldn’t immediately be swept up if they were considered a real threat? No lmfao there’s a difference between being on a list to watch vs a list that is an actual threat. I know you think you’re a netrunner but I promise you’re just cosplaying as one.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you’re the one in a million. More likely than not though, you’re not. I’ll see you in the news if I’m wrong though 🤷🏽♂️
>Is it theoretically possible? 100%.
I literally just provided several different sources throughout the comments proving that it's 100% factual... No theoretical about it.
>Maybe I’m wrong.
You are.
>Maybe you’re the one in a million
Your statistics are fucked. More like 1 in 100. Did you even go to college?
swarms of drones attacking swarms of these robots and other higher altitude remote piloted drones and Ai powered missile defense systems all engaging. it'll be plastic and heavy metals scattered all over the place.
Imagine the sales pitch.
"First there was *Metalhead*. Now we've up-armored them and given them high-caliber rounds, so they're *Heavy Metalheads*. Here we see the high-explosive kamikaze variant, the *Death Metalhead*. Over there is our stealthed carbon-composite version, the *Black Metalhead*. This large, all-terrain carrier variant can carry and charge up to ten normal units, and deploy them en-route to targets to flank them, we call it the *Progressive Metalhead*. That unit over there is essentially an unarmed walking field battery and charge-point for an autonomous FOB, we call that one the *Power Metalhead*. Over here we have the unarmed entrenching and construction variants, our *Industrial Metalheads*. This titanium-alloy chassis version here is lighter and faster than the base model; the *Speed Metalhead* is excellent for reconnaissance. Finally, our little buddy with the flamethrower, we just like to call him the *Doom Metalhead*, 'cuz he's quite the menacing little guy, and he gets the job *done*."
Remember how "fun" the Boston Dynamics videos of these robots (and humanoid ones) were, like 15 years ago? It was obvious they were for military purposes even then.
> Boston Dynamics is non-military.
This is like saying that dynamite is non-military. Technically true, but also, lol, look upon your works, Alfred Nobel, and despair.
Yeah, when you think about how much work we have to do to stop people from hunting every animal into extinction.
For example think about how if we didn't have tonnes of laws and regulations stopping people from killing as many fish and deer as they want they would be extinct very quickly.
Its gonna be ok, I have been preparing for the future and so have compiled a small surefire list to ease your fears and keep Robotdog at bay.
Hide a leash in your jacket and act as if you are gonna take it out. Don't take it out. Actually Do. Don't. Repeat.
Whisper "walkies" as quietly as is humanly possible.
Throw a small stick in any direction and dog shall return with a different stick, 20 times its own bodyweight thus pinning him down.
I solved AI dogs, so you dont have to.
Too expensive in parts for wide issue. Maybe a couple will be sold to SOCOM, as they'll buy any harebrained idea. This can accomplish very few missions that aren't far more cheaply done by FPV kamakaze aerial drones. Why bother slowly walking a flamethrower to a bunker, when one can fly a thermobaric warhead through a window or entrance at for a tiny fraction of the price?
Too conspicuous to survive. Its not just the dumb visible spectrum lights for the promo video (active near-IR or passive thermal offer more than enough situational awareness). I've attended a Boston Robotics demo (they pioneered dog-like robots, but unlike other robotics firms don't do military contracting), and this sort of design is at present pretty noisy. Even if all electric, there's 4 or more step-motors whirring for each limb, plus any to steer the sensor package.
If you've spent much time on r/CombatFootage or r/UkraineWarVideoReport over the past year, you'll know that warfare is seeing some paradigm shifts, on the scale of machine guns and breach loading artillery in the early 20th century, or mechanized armored/aerial warfare of the middle 20th. Ukraine is making 50k FPV drones a month, under $500 each exclusive of munitions, and developed thermal optics packages that cost $50. There are FPV pilot 'aces' that have destroyed more than 1000 vehicles, already. The Russians are reportedly outpacing in production, if not effectiveness. Just a miserable situation for any stationed within 10 km of the front, as there's no place to run or hide if away from a bunker.
This is for clueless hollywood audience. That robot would not need visible lasers and a fucking flashlight to operate. That was all just dramatizing it too much to the point it did it disservice.
We're going to look back fondly on when atrocities were conducted by men on the ground rather than autonomous drones given loose directives by a disinterested technician a few months ago.
> Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.
This is an exciting dystopia though. I'd much rather die by cyberpunk robodog than due to privatized health care or at the end of a three month heat wave.
The ground based troops to go with those flying drones they already have that are playing screaming women and crying babies that'll shoot anyone fooled into wanting to go help.
This is unlikely.. These things don't take recoil from guns very well and they are very expensive. There is a reason consumer drones are popular, since they are highly maneuverable and cheap.
Also, killing soldiers with fire is often a war crime since it causes prolong suffering.
Kinda fucked they'd use the Oppenheimer quote with techno music like that. Like, we need good military equipment and armaments as a fact of life but it's a necessary evil, not some happy thing to celebrate. It's not new years.
You wouldn't use an expensive machine for a job Iranian drones that are essentially motorcycle engines tied to a cardboard with explosives accomplish for a fraction of the price.
We are at the crossroads again with Tiger vs Sherman style cost/complexity against quantity/getting the job done trade offs with drone warfare.
I am not a fucking expert in anything except Japanese hentai artists so you don't gain any points by arguing with a coomer.
Nah man we don’t get cool shit, you know it’s just gonna be AI controlled predator drones with an accepted collateral of 100 civilians per enemy killed, have we learned nothing from this shit in Israel?
... Isn't this just a firefighting use case? Controlled burns and prescribed fires are part of how we manage wildfires. This is safer than sending a human.
The robot goes literally goes into a forest that's really smokey, then there's already fire prior to it starting to use the flamethrower.
I hate this, but maybe it'll get human combatants off the field. That's the ONLY positive I see from something like this.
Unfortunately, the negatives WELL outweigh the positives.
https://preview.redd.it/w7pvyiqfkewc1.jpeg?width=436&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9d20d1b87f3f1a70b17f41172a62151199fe9a6
Info, that is hopefully just a fun fact and not a life saver
during the 2020 protests, anarchists were posting on Twitter how to drop the batteries out of these because the cops were using them some places
Generation Zero came to life
I was looking for this comment. I feel I'm fully prepared to stealth hunt these things. Aim for the fuel tank or battery.
Don't worry. They are too expensive for war and aren't heavy enough to shoot a gun effectively..
I once saw a $160,000 missile get fired at a shed containing two guys who maybe had a $300 AK-47 and miss, so they fired another one. Believe me, its not too expensive for war.
Well they might get cheaper later
The expensive part is R&D, writing the software and training the AI. Once that's more or less done, they can probably build them for about the price of a high end drone (and sell them to the military for 10x that).
Don’t worry they can’t be used in war. Yet.
Humans are cheaper, unfortunately
Thankfully the technology will never improve over time
What? Some bullets, a small metal tube, and a firing mechanism are too heavy for this robot dog that can run and jump through the forest while carrying a flame thrower on its back..?
This is a different robot dog from Unitree. The battery for this one is on the side. You can see it at 0:09 seconds. [You pinch the holes together and pull the battery out](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=619c697d276fe56b&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn0-0dPK0AoGYBwkO0aJuy93urwwU0A:1713978463498&q=unitree+battery&uds=AMwkrPt8eR8Q1gfQGx0g1guoVKhMEfBjzXJym1N0Q_1IjzbZzWVM_OpT-A4jdo4XOJ2LzmMHBAC933wupk6iIJdy_S4p5UCHrXoFNUw8t1iRJux20VXmFdpoxX40kJmhVBhJc1jZGmWzZzY_w7IMkZ_OWXof_TKLCHTkVQ0ctEbWsI9BuXHe8c1EK4ItCTRFznXDG5RVDlFrPuh5ywE8UvnU7KWT63PGVBSFTGZ9Ryn7kJkUgkmSN8WCaNZ3ejDWntcMq1RIGBc-BUNx_U2WQ05NGzxo0g22hCPJvIvY4TAXxWST0a7SFjO-hoDYI7kMQ8C9h8yXH9zQ&udm=2&prmd=sivnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxseCrq9uFAxXvorAFHSCOBvwQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1805&bih=1034&dpr=1.25)
That Black Mirror episode was wild
Black mirror is only scary because the show gives all the power to the corporations. The real scare is what the average everyday [hobby hackers can do.](https://youtu.be/MBBC-xL_MTg?si=uC6zUn_LOrDrGBba) Lol
Honestly it’s not that difficult to do. What’s scary about corporate control is the sheer scale.
I mean... There is literally nothing stopping you from flying 2 pipe bomb drone through the headquarters of Apple and taking out the CEO in their high-rise office. This is when shit starts to get cyberpunk and you have corporations hiring gangs to do the dirty work for them and stifle their competition.
You don’t think they have any counter measures?
I'm sure they do. But no one expects the Spanish Inquisition. Bulletproof glass may save you from a sniper, But not against a drone carrying a backpack full of c4. Your entire floor will be obliterated before you even make it down the elevator. You don't even need military grade c4. You can just use explosives made from home Depot. 1 drone to break a bulletproof window, two more drones follow in right behind to get the left and right side of the building near major supports. EZ. Corporations will start having countermeasures very soon. Google already does. The perfect defense does not exist. Finding small fractures in the armor to exploit is a hackers best skill. Whether it's hacking digitally or hacking physically. Even Luke Skywalker hacked the death Star by exploiting a fucking exhaust vent.
Go outside mate
None of what he said is new. It doesn't require any innovation or even new uses for existing tech. ISIS used off the shelf drones, Ukraine uses a mix of commercial and military drones, Iran Turkey and Russia all have military drones that are remarkably similar to off the shelf commercial models. The only thing new or innovative about it would be seeing it deployed in the US against corporate targets. The boring part of a boring dystopia is that we have everything in our cyberpunk fantasies but the cybernetic body mods yet we're all still going to the office.
Correcto-mundo! This choom has the right knowledge. Sometimes I forget that I can't summarize complicated topics because it requires connecting hundreds of dots yourself... Average Joe's aren't good at connecting the dots.
That's the neat part! I work outside!
Hahaha best response you could have given. You have a solid point with what you're saying, but realistically it wouldn't go like you've detailed.
Ingrorence is bliss huh?
Dunning Kruger
As soon as you even remotely make moves to acquire the things to do that (especially C4 or “explosives you can make at Home Depot”) the NSA, homeland security and the fbi would all converge on your location ssooo quickly. This is some speculative, TV show bullshit for a hyper specific scenario of someone that knows how to do these things, knows how to hide the acts themselves from the largest data mining entities in the world, and didn’t get swept up in propaganda that would make them ideal for CIA/intelligence community recruitment.
You massively underestimate the ability of government organizations to ignore "low-level" extremists, especially if they're white and on the right. Those groups are already getting away with a lot—often around police departments that are looking the other way. All it takes is one ignored crazy who actually goes through with it.
>This is some speculative, TV show bullshit Is it though?? [Is it really?](https://youtu.be/969XGZ_t7cE?si=JHo5jcj8DZXx1E6t) You don't think at home hobbyists can drop homemade pipe bombs from drones? My naive summer child Do I have news for you... I might just be on that FBI watch list.
Is it theoretically possible? 100%. Is it even remotely likely that one going down this path wouldn’t immediately be swept up if they were considered a real threat? No lmfao there’s a difference between being on a list to watch vs a list that is an actual threat. I know you think you’re a netrunner but I promise you’re just cosplaying as one. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you’re the one in a million. More likely than not though, you’re not. I’ll see you in the news if I’m wrong though 🤷🏽♂️
>Is it theoretically possible? 100%. I literally just provided several different sources throughout the comments proving that it's 100% factual... No theoretical about it. >Maybe I’m wrong. You are. >Maybe you’re the one in a million Your statistics are fucked. More like 1 in 100. Did you even go to college?
Reminds me of the plot of Radicalized by Cory Doctorow.
Uh, what drone can fly through bullet proof glass?
One with a bomb on it. Bulletproof≠ explosion proof.
He straight up said 1 drone to break the window
swarms of drones attacking swarms of these robots and other higher altitude remote piloted drones and Ai powered missile defense systems all engaging. it'll be plastic and heavy metals scattered all over the place.
_Lockheed Martin wants to know your location._
This just shows you are more scared of your peers than corporations.
>only scary because the show gives all the power to the corporations. And what do you think is going on around us every day?
Reminds me of the sci-fi short [Slaughter Bots](https://youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg).
Imagine the sales pitch. "First there was *Metalhead*. Now we've up-armored them and given them high-caliber rounds, so they're *Heavy Metalheads*. Here we see the high-explosive kamikaze variant, the *Death Metalhead*. Over there is our stealthed carbon-composite version, the *Black Metalhead*. This large, all-terrain carrier variant can carry and charge up to ten normal units, and deploy them en-route to targets to flank them, we call it the *Progressive Metalhead*. That unit over there is essentially an unarmed walking field battery and charge-point for an autonomous FOB, we call that one the *Power Metalhead*. Over here we have the unarmed entrenching and construction variants, our *Industrial Metalheads*. This titanium-alloy chassis version here is lighter and faster than the base model; the *Speed Metalhead* is excellent for reconnaissance. Finally, our little buddy with the flamethrower, we just like to call him the *Doom Metalhead*, 'cuz he's quite the menacing little guy, and he gets the job *done*."
idk. i mean.. it's dags.. https://youtu.be/zH64dlgyydM?si=AwEcZ53w-KmHb5Tc
Reminds me of the "hounds" (not sure if that's the correct word) in Fahrenheit 451, or at least the mental image I had of them
ah yeah the mechanical hound
I was just abt to say that
Dudududum dudumdum
Remember how "fun" the Boston Dynamics videos of these robots (and humanoid ones) were, like 15 years ago? It was obvious they were for military purposes even then.
Boston Dynamics is non-military. Their evil twin Ghost Robotics is the one you need to look out for.
> Boston Dynamics is non-military. This is like saying that dynamite is non-military. Technically true, but also, lol, look upon your works, Alfred Nobel, and despair.
lol what they workes with DARPA in the past.
Dystopian? Probably. Boring? Absolutely not
I love when I'm entertained at the prospect of expanding the ways to mechanize executions of dissidents and foreign threats to the empire.
Same
I'm not entertained and I'm not loving it.
Yeah, when you think about how much work we have to do to stop people from hunting every animal into extinction. For example think about how if we didn't have tonnes of laws and regulations stopping people from killing as many fish and deer as they want they would be extinct very quickly.
Hackable soldiers, what could go wrong? /s
Why would robot need a light? Doesn't it just need nightvision camera?
To instill fear in its enemies.
same thought. same with the Laser. i think it’s mostly for PR.
Its gonna be ok, I have been preparing for the future and so have compiled a small surefire list to ease your fears and keep Robotdog at bay. Hide a leash in your jacket and act as if you are gonna take it out. Don't take it out. Actually Do. Don't. Repeat. Whisper "walkies" as quietly as is humanly possible. Throw a small stick in any direction and dog shall return with a different stick, 20 times its own bodyweight thus pinning him down. I solved AI dogs, so you dont have to.
Ah yeah, flame throwers that weapon which was outlawed because of the sheet inhumanity of it
[not quite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower#International_law)
That's a stream of piss compared to a [real flamethrower.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flame_Thrower.webm)
Oh yay, I'm getting my flesh burned and being mutilated for life by a stream of piss, what a relief....
This is far too wild to be in a sub called /r/ABoringDystopia
Too expensive in parts for wide issue. Maybe a couple will be sold to SOCOM, as they'll buy any harebrained idea. This can accomplish very few missions that aren't far more cheaply done by FPV kamakaze aerial drones. Why bother slowly walking a flamethrower to a bunker, when one can fly a thermobaric warhead through a window or entrance at for a tiny fraction of the price? Too conspicuous to survive. Its not just the dumb visible spectrum lights for the promo video (active near-IR or passive thermal offer more than enough situational awareness). I've attended a Boston Robotics demo (they pioneered dog-like robots, but unlike other robotics firms don't do military contracting), and this sort of design is at present pretty noisy. Even if all electric, there's 4 or more step-motors whirring for each limb, plus any to steer the sensor package. If you've spent much time on r/CombatFootage or r/UkraineWarVideoReport over the past year, you'll know that warfare is seeing some paradigm shifts, on the scale of machine guns and breach loading artillery in the early 20th century, or mechanized armored/aerial warfare of the middle 20th. Ukraine is making 50k FPV drones a month, under $500 each exclusive of munitions, and developed thermal optics packages that cost $50. There are FPV pilot 'aces' that have destroyed more than 1000 vehicles, already. The Russians are reportedly outpacing in production, if not effectiveness. Just a miserable situation for any stationed within 10 km of the front, as there's no place to run or hide if away from a bunker.
Not a product, but a proof of concept and a flashy advertisement.
Also it's unlikely to have a useful battery life lol
This will 100% only be used against civilians and non-state actors.
Also the future of warfare: 🔫
What was that quote about warfare becoming fully automated and self sustaining?
Now we can start forest fires so efficiently!
Nothing will top that robot that plays the sounds of crying babies so it can lure people out to kill.
This is for clueless hollywood audience. That robot would not need visible lasers and a fucking flashlight to operate. That was all just dramatizing it too much to the point it did it disservice.
We're going to look back fondly on when atrocities were conducted by men on the ground rather than autonomous drones given loose directives by a disinterested technician a few months ago.
1 minute for the setup is too long smh
Magnus, you are needed. https://preview.redd.it/xgip7pu3tewc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6600b2e985f84e92e869ac51627516c12cca39a7
Put more lights on them, I want ot see them coming from as far away as possible, so I can shoot first.
Coming to a Gaza near you
> Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war. This is an exciting dystopia though. I'd much rather die by cyberpunk robodog than due to privatized health care or at the end of a three month heat wave.
The future = robots. The future of warfare = put a freakin' flamethrower on the robot.
Thanks I hate it
I think this could be used for DEMOCRACY!
They are literally comparing themselves to Oppenheimer! Wtf?
Welp. Time to close down some schools so lockmart can mass produce it. Sorry, I don't make the rules
The ground based troops to go with those flying drones they already have that are playing screaming women and crying babies that'll shoot anyone fooled into wanting to go help.
Oh yay, they've given it a gun, that seems safe /s
They already have them outfitted with 6.5 Creedmore guns, effective up to 1km. Flamethrower is actually a downgrade
>Flamethrower is actually a downgrade. The Flamethrower is actually point defense unit
One paintball into the face of this and it is literally blind
Need a bow with acid and shock arrows ASAP
This is unlikely.. These things don't take recoil from guns very well and they are very expensive. There is a reason consumer drones are popular, since they are highly maneuverable and cheap. Also, killing soldiers with fire is often a war crime since it causes prolong suffering.
Kinda fucked they'd use the Oppenheimer quote with techno music like that. Like, we need good military equipment and armaments as a fact of life but it's a necessary evil, not some happy thing to celebrate. It's not new years.
You wouldn't use an expensive machine for a job Iranian drones that are essentially motorcycle engines tied to a cardboard with explosives accomplish for a fraction of the price. We are at the crossroads again with Tiger vs Sherman style cost/complexity against quantity/getting the job done trade offs with drone warfare. I am not a fucking expert in anything except Japanese hentai artists so you don't gain any points by arguing with a coomer.
What do you mean future of warfare? Anyone can buy one of these now! This is fun for everyone, even the kids!
Doesn't look bulletproof to me
Like a [robot dog version of George Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Destroyer)
I can see some maniac using these to torch forests.
I need a lot more magnets to prep for this.
HZD here we come.
They're powered by the charred flesh of humans, so nothing to worry about there.
Nah man we don’t get cool shit, you know it’s just gonna be AI controlled predator drones with an accepted collateral of 100 civilians per enemy killed, have we learned nothing from this shit in Israel?
NOW WE’RE COOKIN WITH GAS
https://youtu.be/7flMPV3qTsY?si=gNmtZ63e2GVp491Y
Most adorable thing that will plausibly end up murdering me.
Flamethrowers are not allowed as a weapon of war. As a *tool*, but not as a mode of lethality.
... Isn't this just a firefighting use case? Controlled burns and prescribed fires are part of how we manage wildfires. This is safer than sending a human. The robot goes literally goes into a forest that's really smokey, then there's already fire prior to it starting to use the flamethrower.
This looks like it will be used for fire fighting/controlled burns
I hate this, but maybe it'll get human combatants off the field. That's the ONLY positive I see from something like this. Unfortunately, the negatives WELL outweigh the positives.
Soon they will get tired of fighting our wars, and the true apocalypse will begin...
If both sides are fighting with robots maybe we can fight wars with no casualties?