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Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with AI-Enabled Rifles in Middle East
- hifix 2y agoSeems like it was always heading this way, I don't think anyone really bought that the common use case for these style of quadruped robots would be walking around doing "safety inspections" in a warehouse.
- Sakos 2y agoBoston Dynamics' BigDog was funded by DARPA for the military. Was there anybody who actually believed the primary purpose for these things being developed wasn't military? I'm sure we'll find plenty of other uses for them in the future, but much like the internet or GPS, quadruped robots probably have a military origin in general.
- jameslk 2y agoSlaughterbot normalization in foreign wars is the first step towards normalizing it domestically
- pixelready 2y agoFoucault's boomerang (aka the Imperial boomerang): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
- peacechance 2y ago[flagged]
- NikkiA 2y agoTo be fair, every country has it's own greedy defense industry that will happily bring about the worst dystopic armageddon for just a few more pennies.
- mharig 2y ago[dead]
- anthony100 2y agoLife imitates art. Many Hollywood films have already depicted this scenario.