• Wilco@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 hours

    Would be funny to hear about a kid with a slingshot or something taking these out.

  • Kite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4 hours

    One step closer to a Horizon Zero Dawn future. Just let me live long enough to see the dinobots.

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
    4 hours

    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.

    • MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40 minutes

      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.

    • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4 hours

      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.

    • Stampy@lemmy.caEnglish
      58 minutes

      I’m sure some hackers could figure out the wireless communications and hijack…

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
        48 minutes

        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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    the coolest thing about these dogs? you can break them with a directional wireless jamming device.

    also known as a .308 Winchester.

  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 hours

    So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.

    • Logical@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      Well you can’t attach a machine gun to a dog with teeth. I mean you can, but it won’t hit anything.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6 hours

        I mean, it might. Fire enough bullets wherever the dog is looking and it’ll be bound to hit something.

  • nshibj@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    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.

  • discocactus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 hours

    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…”