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It is disquieting for sure, but from the first police robot with a sand bag shotgun and likely even before, we have been on this path. I imagine many people whe
by uberman 4y ago
It is disquieting for sure, but from the first police robot with a sand bag shotgun and likely even before, we have been on this path. I imagine many people when they first saw "spot" and "big dog" thought to themselves that they were ultimately going to be a weapons platforms. Hell their (Boston Dynamic's) "cheetah" is a 10 times more terrifying than this "Russian demo" in my opinion.
In any case, if that Russian guy's back yard project scares you, you definably don't want to know about Ghost Robotics collaboration with Sword International.
I'm not sure it was ever feasible to prevent this escalation in unmanned warfare.
- deepdriver 4y agoThe Israeli-American firm Duke Robotics has built drones with guns for the better part of a decade. I believe they’ve already been deployed in Israel: https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/israeli-military-veterans-built-a-sniper-drone https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/israeli-military...
- uberman 4y agoYa, those are the professional version of a second back yard job by an American teen six or seven years back who put a handgun on a cheap quad copter. The remote warfare cat" is as the say "out of the bag" for sure. I think the only real debate is how autonomous are we willing to be with respect to these platforms.
- deepdriver 4y agoIs this the video you meant? https://youtu.be/MBBC-xL_MTg https://youtu.be/MBBC-xL_MTg If my math is correct, the Duke prototype (2015) predates it by a few years. Agreed with your point though, this genie’s out of the bottle.