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The video also shows the dog robot, each time I see it I imagine there are versions with machine guns on their backs and get anxious, I would stop showing the
by simion314 6y ago
The video also shows the dog robot, each time I see it I imagine there are versions with machine guns on their backs and get anxious, I would stop showing the dogs ones in the unrelated PR materials.
- ekianjo 6y agoCurrent flying drones are a lot scarier thsn dogs with machine guns
- MarcScott 6y agoEspecially when you add a flame thrower - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_eEO0Cvwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_eEO0Cvwg
- simion314 6y agoAre there such drones without human remote control? What would help at least me is to see this dogs actually used for something useful where they are the best solution, what I mean used in production not demos - because I can't imagine that many scenarios where are a good solution over a drone or a robot with wheels.
- bratcomplex 6y agoYes. Definitely. autonomous flying air craft are not new. much easier compared to anything moving on the ground. object and path detections is arguably less likely to fail being less contact with terrain.
- delfinom 6y ago>Are there such drones without human remote control? To be realistic. Spot (the dog) is not autonomous currently either. In fact it doesn't even use "AI", all of its movements are electrical and mechanical control theory on steroids ;) The BD customer can integrate an AI to direct movements if desired but it's not what BD ships. BD instead offers a human operated remote control with camera system.
- simion314 6y agoAny idea What is it good for?
- emteycz 6y agoSpaceX uses them to inspect still burning crashed spaceships (minutes post-crash).
- simion314 6y agoDo they do it for PR reasons? i assume you can use drones more effectively.
- emteycz 6y agoWhy do you think so? A drone has to be piloted the whole time, while a dog can be positioned and stay there with no further piloting or energy requirement. I also imagine that piloting a drone around hissing gas and in low vision could be problematic.
- simion314 6y agoSo if SpaceX needs video of the landing/crash sites then you could buy a few drones instead of a single dog. Because of possible debris and fire on the ground I also expect a drone would be better, and if teh land is clear then a drone could also be configured to land and film from the ground(because you could afford multiple ones you can have different configurations). I might be missing something though, a scenario where an robot with legs can do better then a flying or wheeled one.
- Mountain_Skies 6y agoFires, especially large hots ones, create wind and other aerodynamic instability.
- delfinom 6y agoTake any quadcopter, attach high explosives to it, ram them into people and blow them up. While you are at it, throw on a cheap raspberry pi with some simple machine learned computer vision to target humans. There, I made you afraid of cheap $100 quadcopters off Amazon and raspberry Pis.
- simion314 6y agoTrue, but there are like 1 billion more real world examples where this devices are used in production, so if you see a drone on the sky you think that is probably some kid with his toy, if you see the dog robot what scenario are you imagining ? (assume you are not on a big city with a university)
- serf 6y agoas someone who was into building quadcopters in the DIY drones community since somewhere around 2009, I can tell you that the majority of people who had the opportunity to see me flying my quadcopter (in the far-from-society rural wilderness, by the way) during the early days routinely bothered me about the danger of having such a large flying object, and whether or not I knew if anyone like me was placing weapons on-board. Now you can buy larger quad-copters than I had built off the shelf. Things change , people get used to it, opinions morph. When robotic dogs and bipeds become more common place, people will become less threatened by them just due to sheer anxiety fatigue, if not more friendly reasons. My take : when I see a robotic dog I think "That's a corporation with a spending budget!"
- imtringued 6y agoMost of them cannot carry any significant loads.
- lanternfish 6y agoYou don't need a very significant load to blow up a person.
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- scjody 6y agoJust don't call it a war dog! Boston Dynamics might get upset. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56182268 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56182268
- dane-pgp 6y ago> [Boston Dynamics] warned that if the "spectacle" goes ahead, Spot's warranty might be voided, meaning it could not be updated. Wait, so they reserve the right to void your warranty if you use their product to make art? I remember there was a case where a company bricked someone's device because they left a bad review[0], but having companies judge the artistic merit of their customers' use cases seems somehow even more dystopian. [0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/iot-company-bricks-customers-device-after-negative-review/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/iot-company-bricks-cust...
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoI'm torn on that scenario. They do not feel fear or worry about self preservation. There is no such thing as "I thought he had a gun and felt threatened."
- aksss 6y agoI could see plenty of "I thought he had a gun" scenarios, we're just chopping off the "...and felt threatened" part. Unless the robot accompanies a group of humans and decides they are threatened by the situation. It becomes "I thought he had a gun and decided the humans with me or around me were threatened". Maybe these robots could be outfitted to coat a person in immobilizing goo or something rather than filling them full of holes. Or long range tasers. Or tranq darts.
- perryizgr8 6y ago> I imagine there are versions with machine guns on their backs That actually sounds even more awesome :)