The wet dream of the 1% is coming true; Their own personal army with no moral compass.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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On the bright side, it's Chinese hard/software, so an ED-209 outcome is very probable, and highly anticipated.
it does not look like a derivative at all
Both strongly resemble Boston Dynamics's "Spot" robo-canine.
I'm betting that's exactly what they are, with some glued-on plastic detailing.
How dare you! China doesn't copy, it just takes others' ideas and improve them! sometimes.
I feel like these will be useless in all but limited circumstances. A modern battlefield in urban centers will be rife with small and large rubble, making these things unreliable in real world practice when you factor its ability to balance navigating obstacles and dealing with recoil. How does it reload? How long does its battery last? What happens when its weapon jams? Additionally, tricking current AI is fairly simple when you have the resources of a modern military.
Anyway, it's interesting to experiment with, but I just don't think the technology is quite there yet. I think it'd probably be more effective to create self-destructing bomber robot dogs than gun toting ones with our current tech.
There's a use case for a crawling camera. They're pretty good at going over rubble if they aren't trying to shoot at the same time. For self destructing drones flying ones are easier and cheaper to manufacture.
Horizon is a WARNING, not a SUGGESTION!
Pre-emptive Zero Dawn, do it now!
China seems to disagree.
Lets see it clear a jam tho.
Well I hope their urban training is still that bad if we ever have to fight them. And the robot dogs seem like a good idea until one of them gets introduced to OPFORs size 12 boot.