• XLE@piefed.socialBanned from communityEnglish
    2 months

    These systems are able to navigate complex landscapes on their own, alert authorities about security threats, and can provide around-the-clock video surveillance.

    If only there was a cheaper way to provide around-the-clock video surveillance. Alas, we don’t have the technology.

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      Even if you needed something mobile, it’s not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.

      • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2 months

        They don’t need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.

        • XLE@piefed.socialBanned from communityEnglish
          2 months

          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.

        • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          And use AI to actually monitor the thousand cameras. Ask me how I know.

            • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2 months

              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.

      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        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.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2 months

          I wonder how many robot duds will be stolen per year? Lots of neat parts in them if you know some electronics.

            • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2 months

              If AI is in charge just ask them to write a time zone calculator in python or whatever.

          • Chivera@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            The elites don’t want you to know this but the robot dogs patrolling data centers are free. You can take them home.

    • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 months

      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?

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Data centers and wasting massive amounts of resources. Name a more iconic duo.

    • borkborkbork@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 months

      oh they’ll figure it out real quick when these bots get pwned and become malware vectors against the data centers they’re ‘protecting’

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        I still don’t understand them not just making a tribe of loved equals for a bunker. Power rots the mind and soul

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 months

        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.

    • bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      It’s almost like they need something mobile they can add weaponry to that could chase and hunt down security threats…

    • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      1500 camera alternative (motion detection monitoring) seems reasonable enough. The black mirror machine gun turret is needed for marketing/mission improvement.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    2 months

    Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money

    • glibg@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      Snare one, wrap it in some kind of faraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.

        • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
          2 months

          With a just a few just large enough neodymium magnets.

          No signal, no movement, no data.

        • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
          2 months

          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.

      • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
        2 months

        A half cube metal shipping container could very easily be modified to work as a faraday cage. Or even a Trash cash.

    • arcine@jlai.luEnglish
      2 months

      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 !

    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      I’d love to see one captured then injected with expanding foam aka the speed camera treatment.

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
    2 months

    So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.

  • nshibj@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.

  • org@lemmy.orgEnglish
    2 months

    Think hiding in a big box and walking slowly would trick it?

    • SPRUNT@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Awfully complicated for something that can be defeated by a blanket.

    • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      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.

        • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
          2 months

          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.

          • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
            2 months

            especially when that something is probably at least like 60% lithium ion battery by volume.

            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.

        • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
          2 months

          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.

  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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
      2 months

      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
        2 months

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

    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2 months

      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.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      I understand the sentiment, although annoyingly enough Boston Dynamics kicks their “dogs” pretty often, and they’re build to adjust their balance very quickly.

    • Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Thats the funny part. There are human operators on stand by.

      The scary part is that we really will be fighting robots for water…

      • TwilitSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        Take comfort in knowing that the fight against robots for water will be short. Very, very short.

        • Olhonestjim@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Nah, they are nowhere near as good as the movies, nor are the villains all that smart.

        • Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          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

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      2 months

      I mean, ideally all dangerous jobs should be replaced by machines wherever possible.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      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.

      • arcine@jlai.luEnglish
        2 months

        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 !

    • Stampy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

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

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
        2 months

        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.

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 months

    Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      2 months

      But:

      • That won’t get you millions increase in investor funding, which also lets you increase your pay-cheque
      • You need to buy them from actual dog trainers, which are people and will eventually stop selling to you once you either become too evil for them or you murder them
      • They are a supply chain risk as once you eventually piss off the dog trainer by 4x-ing his electricity bills and getting your AI to tell the govt. to shoot his family, he can then bypass the dogs using his smell, because they would be familiar with him.
  • Jiral@lemmy.orgEnglish
    2 months

    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?

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2 months

      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.

      • nile_istic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        Until we get robot cats. Or robot squirrels. Maybe a well-placed Furby.

        • ViceroTempus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          It’s only a matter of time till “birds aren’t real” isn’t satire. I for one welcome our new robot overlords

          spoiler

          right into a pile of magnets

          .

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      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.

    • moustachio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      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

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.