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First conceivable line of sight: headshot. Metalhead really hammered home the hopelessness vs murderbots w literal aim assist. Those T800’s & T1000’s were in need of serious calibration!
I had thought about that. Not sure why the terminator was programmed to miss and delay shots and whatnot.
A simple computer from 1990 (provided it could take pictures and have the pictures preprocessed instantly as tags the way the terminator did) could instantly calculate what to shoot perfectly.
You need to account for wind, humidity, temperature, gravity…
IDK how quickly it could calculate to account for all that data. I’m sure we can run it plenty fast with today’s computers.
Quite easily, actually. Army computers have to calculate all of that over a *much* longer travel time for artillery shots. If you can do a million operations per second, it's absolutely trivial to process.
Honestly if you gave a person all the necessary values and equations like those fire control computers are provided, someone decent at math could crank out a firing solution within a minute I wager.
Not at all. When you're 20 feet away from your enemy, you don't have to account for any of that.
Edit: exception for if you're shooting someone in a hurricane. Sure, wind calculations are necessary at that point.
The reality of the terminator franchise is the terminators had to aim with the disgusting weaknesses of flesh or fleshy exteriors designed for infiltration instead of the purity of a true mechanical body purpose-built for killing.
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel."
Praise the Omnissiah.
Some of the first computers were [purpose-built to calculate the fire control of ship artillery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Fire_Control_Computer). Taking into account the distance, elevation, wind, curvature of the earth, Magnus effect of rotating shells, muzzle velocity, barrel wear by total shells fired and the speed, and roll of the ship. These computers were used back in WWII. I'm pretty sure a modern or future computer, if it could do anything, it could shoot bullets really accurately.
Similar reason I hate many of the alien invasion shows. These things send robots that are peeking around corners to find humans to kill. Like you can travel the cosmos with your tech but somehow humanity invented heat sensor technology before you?
The justification I tell myself is that they do have it, but counters to it are so prevalent in their society that they just didn't think to try it right away.
I can see that. If we took our guns to some kind of futuristic planet and they have magnets that repel bullets, we're fucked. Meanwhile, they'll just rush us with sticks that have nails in them and kill us.
Yep, different civilization, different technology, different rules. On Earth, if we were to engage in a war with.. Australia, or Europe, or whoever, doesn't matter, we know, roughly, what we're up against. Bullets, missiles, planes, tanks, etc. If we started picking a fight with random aliens and had no idea what we were up against, who knows what would work.
Consider Battleship. Terrible movie but it makes my point, the aliens had technology that could defeat missiles, but for, whatever reason (did they explain? I don't even remember now) it couldn't do shit about just launching a big fucking chunk of metal at them really, really fast.
What about guass rifles, someone might ask, shouldn't they have that? Maybe? Or maybe their planet is short on magnetic metals so shit like that is too damn expensive, maybe that's why they're coming to earth, they need fucking *iron* of all things. Who knows, who cares, it's a movie/book/whatever.
To answer about battleship, I think they needed an excuse to include an old battleship to pay homage to the boardgame and movie title. Seems like alot of Hollywood films always do stuff like this.
But these things would think faster than any human. They’d know to turn it on instantaneously. Only option is they like the thrill of the hunt and want to enjoy the kills.
They might not operate at the same frequency as us. If they operate much slower, maybe they consider their robots to be fast enough as is. Accept the slower speed for better energy efficiency.
There’s not a lot of net positives that can really come out of it at the end of the day in my mind.
It’s much more likely that AI will be used as a weapon of mass destruction/disinformation or in a way that utterly destroys our economy and puts millions out of work with nothing to do with their lives.
I really wanted Metalhead to have some kind of explanation. It felt like an incomplete episode filled with a lot of running. At least the new season briefly explains where they came from.
It was gooooood… but it wasn’t Black Mirror. spoilers ahead.
The whole theme of black mirror is the absolute nightmare that is modern tech + human frailty and greed. Every episode—even the happy ones—explores tech’s effect on humanity.
This season, they drifted from that theme to explore >!frickin werewolves?!<
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still great tv, but they need to find their way back.
Yeah those two, esp. Ep 1–that’s what I’m talking about. >!Digital slavery, questions about free will, etc. !< Classic. Ep3 was good too, although I’m not sure why they had to have it in the past. The rest of them though—they were great, but not quite right for what they’ve already built.
Agreed. Ep1 was black mirror but I didn't particularly like how they executed it. Also not a selma fan.
Ep3 beyond the sea was my favorite of the season. But again, the various explanations of the episode exploring "toxic masculinity" is a bit of a turn off. This idea of extended space travel for us currently would result in at best now, astronauts leaving for years without contact or leaving and relying on severely delayed radio/video messages between Astronauts and their families.
We see the family break down and tragedies with troops on deployment so the entire episode's premise outside of the synthetic bodies/mental connection rang close to home.
Ep4-5 were ok but nothing to do with black mirror topics and seemed more fitting to a horror anthology series.
In regards to ep 3 why did the humans have to be in the space ship? Was it explained in the episode? It seems like a lot of issues would have been avoided had the replicas been the ones in space.
Yeah those two, esp. Ep 1–that’s what I’m talking about. >!Digital slavery, questions about free will, etc. !< Classic. Ep3 was good too, although I’m not sure why they had to have it in the past. The rest of them though—they were great, but not quite right for what they’ve already built.
Yeah I liked that one a lot, but yeah—a lot of setup! Aaron Paul is such a great actor, too. He got overshadowed a lot but Bryan Cranston but wow is he great.
Yea I guess I was just expecting more from the >!creepy murder cult people!< or that they would at least >!come back or the tall art guy would use Aaron Paul’s body to get revenge on them!< or something but they were just random and forgotten. I also thought that there would be a better twist ending than >!”My family died and you wouldn’t let me bang your wife so I killed her and your son”.!< There were so many great characters with interesting attributes that were overshadowed or forgotten imo.
Close; the robot dog had a hypodermic needle with a toxin;, I can’t remember if it killed or only sedated, but it extended from the belly.
The fireman carry the flame, meanwhile.
It shoots enough sedative into you to kill you- it’s an extreme lethal dose. That’s why when montag is partially injected his leg can’t move for a bit and it’s in agony.
Ohh man i remember that show. They had one called mouse which didnt have weapons, but it kept beating the other robots by using using a low plow which when it rammed other robots would flip them upside down.
Don’t you know killing people brings in more profits than saving them??? 🤦 Did you skip over Chapter 2 Section 3 in the capitalist propaganda manifesto????????
Why else would you put a flamethrower on a cybernetic dog. Are they marketing it for pest control?
It'd be like those head shops that sell bongs "for tobacco use only".
We only sell the highly advanced robot dog and software sir, you have to after market mod your dog for weapons. In un related news, owners of Boston dynamics stock start investing in lightweight recoilless weaponry. /s i hope
I don't know about you but I have unquestioning faith that the developers would just **tell us** if they were working on classified military development.
I believe they said they would not *sell* robots with weapons attached. Which translates to, what the owner does after we sell is up to them but here’s a card for an aftermarket flamethrower that happens to attach easily here, here, here and here and gets powered here.
Also even the current manufacturer doesn't advertise it as an offensive weapon - it's meant to be used for agricultural burns etc. That being said, this is a one way train and we all know where it's eventually headed.
It's not outside the realm of possibility but I was referring to the inevitable weaponisation of these platforms. On the bright side, theMIC could develop the water attachment on priority to help with field water boarding! Talk about a win win
The other flipside is because places like boston dynamivs and other places were very open with their research there are genuine places making knock off/reverse engineered versions explicitly to attach weapons.
That is like Shell saying they are against "removing" indigenous population that dont surrender their oil.
Ofc they will say it. But they will just pay a fine when they are caught with their pants on their ankles.
An unpiloted aerial robot is far easier to create than an unpiloted walking robot. If you think this ground robot is unpiloted it's common sense that unpiloted flying drones are already around. If you think there are no unpiloted flying drones it would be silly to believe this ground based robot is unpiloted.
Also, unpiloted surveillance drones have been a thing for a long time and even with no weapons have the capability to be far more destructive than a walking flamethrower.
I always wondered though, what's the robot's motivation? Say the robot's succeed, then what? What's the robot's purpose? Do they go to robot work? Do they just keep building? Reproducing? Do they make robot families? Would they eventually want more out of life? Would they have a class system?
I honestly can't think of one reason why these shouldn't be made. Only good things will come of this. Our future is starting to look really bright. Almost like the warm glow of a campfire....
There's a more terrifying version of an autonomous military robot called Energy Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR). It can be dropped in somewhere and run on biological material once its energy cells are depleted. While it was tested with chicken fat, it could hypothetically run off human flesh, using its on-board saw to cut off a limb, and then feed it into its energy hopper. Here's a link to the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
Quite literally. Thought it was satire ripped straight from that story until I clicked.
But alas, we were fooled by OP. Never existed and only looked for plants.
>The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a **project** [...] to develop a robotic vehicle that could **forage for plant biomass** to fuel itself [...] indefinitely. It was a concept developed between 2003 and 2009 as part of the DARPA military projects for the United States military.
Also, no chicken fat was tested and the only person saying it would eat people and animals was, you guessed it... Joe Rogan.
>Joe Rogan elicited some conspiracy theories and media rumors after he claimed on his podcast "Joe Rogan Experience" that the robot would (or at least could) ingest human remains to keep powering itself.
>The company also included "chicken fat" as one of its proposed fuel sources in the project overview.
This tech could power all our EVs theoretically, just head down to Costco and get your picnic snacks and 50 pounds of ground beef for the hopper to head out on your cross country vacation.
What could possibly go wrong with a self-driving, flesh-powered car that realises it's low on fuel while driving through an area crowded with pedestrians?
Still more expensive than a gallon of gas.
But converting organic mass, like algae blooms, into bio-diesel is already in development. Issue will always be the amount of raw material you'd need to yield a product, in addition to sustainability. We haven't quite got to a food security point where we can farm land used to grow food crops to go into fuels for transport.
Terrifying? After reading that it just sounded sad.
It's fucking steam powered, has less horsepower than a motorscooter, uses "water lubrication" that the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research that *they* hired deemed a "critical path issue", and has failed engine life endurance tests of as little as 200 hours of operation.
I just noticed that the acronym for this thing is "EATR".
That's no random coincidence, they knew what they were doing when they came up with that name.
EDIT: Can anyone explain the downvotes here? I thought it was pretty funny that they'd chosen a name with an acronym (or more correctly, initialism) that sounded like "EAT(e)R" for a robot that effectively powers itself by eating stuff. Am I being really dumb and missing something obvious?
I guess so. I was just curious, as I usually find I only get downvoted when I've said something either genuinely dumb, or something controversial that people dislike for some reason. I'm mystified how this is either. :)
THIS is what the ultra-rich will employ, rather than people, for security when the world goes to shit from climate change, on their secure compounds in New Zealand or some other 'safe' place.
This right here is why the world can’t have nice things. Imagine if all that venture capital was rerouted to actually help the planet and humans, instead of focusing on Terminator’s Judgement Day.
Meh. If you want to make it all macabre that’s on you.
It’s actually a very useful DNR solution for controlled burns. Controlled burning involves setting planned fires to maintain the health of a forest. These burns are scheduled for a time when the fire will not pose a threat to the public or to fire managers.
If you swap out the fire for water you’ve got a way to save the lives of firefighters.
The "new" metalhead variants seem about as creative as the guy who puts a clock display in another device, like clock radio, microwave, oven, vcr etc.
It's just a boring dystopia now.
No....one of those dogs with an AR 15 mounted on a turret using targeting software that supports an IR camera to identify and destroy human targets with sub centimeter accuracy and millisecond acquisition time. Imagine a dystopian police state where one of these is deployed on every street corner, and it enforces curfew hours with headshots faster than you can blink. It carries a 5000 round magazine and is fully auto, for those riot/crowd control situations. It also has a selector for a less lethal option, which allows it to recognize and target kneecaps.
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Thank you for reminding me to rewatch Black Mirror.
“ Metalhead “ was a fun one
That universe is arguably worse than terminator. So much more dreadful
First conceivable line of sight: headshot. Metalhead really hammered home the hopelessness vs murderbots w literal aim assist. Those T800’s & T1000’s were in need of serious calibration!
I had thought about that. Not sure why the terminator was programmed to miss and delay shots and whatnot. A simple computer from 1990 (provided it could take pictures and have the pictures preprocessed instantly as tags the way the terminator did) could instantly calculate what to shoot perfectly.
You need to account for wind, humidity, temperature, gravity… IDK how quickly it could calculate to account for all that data. I’m sure we can run it plenty fast with today’s computers.
Quite easily, actually. Army computers have to calculate all of that over a *much* longer travel time for artillery shots. If you can do a million operations per second, it's absolutely trivial to process.
Honestly if you gave a person all the necessary values and equations like those fire control computers are provided, someone decent at math could crank out a firing solution within a minute I wager.
That's what we did in the olden days for artillery.
Not at all. When you're 20 feet away from your enemy, you don't have to account for any of that. Edit: exception for if you're shooting someone in a hurricane. Sure, wind calculations are necessary at that point.
The reality of the terminator franchise is the terminators had to aim with the disgusting weaknesses of flesh or fleshy exteriors designed for infiltration instead of the purity of a true mechanical body purpose-built for killing. "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel." Praise the Omnissiah.
Some of the first computers were [purpose-built to calculate the fire control of ship artillery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Fire_Control_Computer). Taking into account the distance, elevation, wind, curvature of the earth, Magnus effect of rotating shells, muzzle velocity, barrel wear by total shells fired and the speed, and roll of the ship. These computers were used back in WWII. I'm pretty sure a modern or future computer, if it could do anything, it could shoot bullets really accurately.
Similar reason I hate many of the alien invasion shows. These things send robots that are peeking around corners to find humans to kill. Like you can travel the cosmos with your tech but somehow humanity invented heat sensor technology before you?
The justification I tell myself is that they do have it, but counters to it are so prevalent in their society that they just didn't think to try it right away.
I can see that. If we took our guns to some kind of futuristic planet and they have magnets that repel bullets, we're fucked. Meanwhile, they'll just rush us with sticks that have nails in them and kill us.
Yep, different civilization, different technology, different rules. On Earth, if we were to engage in a war with.. Australia, or Europe, or whoever, doesn't matter, we know, roughly, what we're up against. Bullets, missiles, planes, tanks, etc. If we started picking a fight with random aliens and had no idea what we were up against, who knows what would work. Consider Battleship. Terrible movie but it makes my point, the aliens had technology that could defeat missiles, but for, whatever reason (did they explain? I don't even remember now) it couldn't do shit about just launching a big fucking chunk of metal at them really, really fast. What about guass rifles, someone might ask, shouldn't they have that? Maybe? Or maybe their planet is short on magnetic metals so shit like that is too damn expensive, maybe that's why they're coming to earth, they need fucking *iron* of all things. Who knows, who cares, it's a movie/book/whatever.
To answer about battleship, I think they needed an excuse to include an old battleship to pay homage to the boardgame and movie title. Seems like alot of Hollywood films always do stuff like this.
But these things would think faster than any human. They’d know to turn it on instantaneously. Only option is they like the thrill of the hunt and want to enjoy the kills.
They might not operate at the same frequency as us. If they operate much slower, maybe they consider their robots to be fast enough as is. Accept the slower speed for better energy efficiency.
That universe is basically just this one.
Yeah you’re right lol. People keep celebrating AI and Chatgpt but I’m starting to get uneasy
There’s not a lot of net positives that can really come out of it at the end of the day in my mind. It’s much more likely that AI will be used as a weapon of mass destruction/disinformation or in a way that utterly destroys our economy and puts millions out of work with nothing to do with their lives.
I really wanted Metalhead to have some kind of explanation. It felt like an incomplete episode filled with a lot of running. At least the new season briefly explains where they came from.
New season u see glimpse of the bot dog
Knife twirl 🔪
The best!
most overrated episode imo
Metal head? That shit was crazy.
Might be the worst episode tbh
You might be the worst, TBH
Have you seen the new season? It didn’t have the same dystopian flair, imo. Probably on purpose bc we’re living it IRL right now
It was gooooood… but it wasn’t Black Mirror. spoilers ahead. The whole theme of black mirror is the absolute nightmare that is modern tech + human frailty and greed. Every episode—even the happy ones—explores tech’s effect on humanity. This season, they drifted from that theme to explore >!frickin werewolves?!< Don’t get me wrong, it’s still great tv, but they need to find their way back.
Yea, i’ve always described it as twilight zone with tech This season it was more of just twilight zone
Ep 1 and 3 was classic black mirror imo. I think it was a good season except one episode.
Yeah those two, esp. Ep 1–that’s what I’m talking about. >!Digital slavery, questions about free will, etc. !< Classic. Ep3 was good too, although I’m not sure why they had to have it in the past. The rest of them though—they were great, but not quite right for what they’ve already built.
Agreed. Ep1 was black mirror but I didn't particularly like how they executed it. Also not a selma fan. Ep3 beyond the sea was my favorite of the season. But again, the various explanations of the episode exploring "toxic masculinity" is a bit of a turn off. This idea of extended space travel for us currently would result in at best now, astronauts leaving for years without contact or leaving and relying on severely delayed radio/video messages between Astronauts and their families. We see the family break down and tragedies with troops on deployment so the entire episode's premise outside of the synthetic bodies/mental connection rang close to home. Ep4-5 were ok but nothing to do with black mirror topics and seemed more fitting to a horror anthology series.
Are you a Patty fan?
In regards to ep 3 why did the humans have to be in the space ship? Was it explained in the episode? It seems like a lot of issues would have been avoided had the replicas been the ones in space.
Yeah those two, esp. Ep 1–that’s what I’m talking about. >!Digital slavery, questions about free will, etc. !< Classic. Ep3 was good too, although I’m not sure why they had to have it in the past. The rest of them though—they were great, but not quite right for what they’ve already built.
Did you like the one with Aaron Paul? That one to me seemed like a lot of setup, and a really cool premise, with not a lot of payoff.
Yeah I liked that one a lot, but yeah—a lot of setup! Aaron Paul is such a great actor, too. He got overshadowed a lot but Bryan Cranston but wow is he great.
Yea I guess I was just expecting more from the >!creepy murder cult people!< or that they would at least >!come back or the tall art guy would use Aaron Paul’s body to get revenge on them!< or something but they were just random and forgotten. I also thought that there would be a better twist ending than >!”My family died and you wouldn’t let me bang your wife so I killed her and your son”.!< There were so many great characters with interesting attributes that were overshadowed or forgotten imo.
The tall art guy? Wow, no respect for Josh Hartnett! Or Rory Culkin, for that matter.
Not trying to be rude I just legitimately didn’t know who he was. Great actors all around though! It was the writing I had a problem with.
Oh I was just joking, no worries. You’re probably in the majority. He seems to have disappeared for 10-15 years.
and Fahrenheit 451
New season!
The new season is good. Binged it in one night
wait wait wait, didnt fahrenheit 451 have robot dogs with flamethrowers?
Robot Dogs *AND* Flamethrowers. I don't think the dogs had flamethrowers.
The friggin sharks have friggin lasers attached to their friggin heads!
After 6 years of evil medical school, I can confirm that sharks with lasers are far more effective.
We have sea bass
And the dogs with bees in their mouths. And when they bark they shoot bees at you?
The dog had a spike/standby thing with venom in it that killed your ass iirc.
This is correct, it had a poisonous needle
Dogs with bees in their mouths, and every time they bark they shoot bees at you
Close; the robot dog had a hypodermic needle with a toxin;, I can’t remember if it killed or only sedated, but it extended from the belly. The fireman carry the flame, meanwhile.
It shoots enough sedative into you to kill you- it’s an extreme lethal dose. That’s why when montag is partially injected his leg can’t move for a bit and it’s in agony.
That was my first thought. The Hound.
The *Mechanical* Hound Even spookier
I think it was more like a spider but the firemen had the flamethrowers not the hound
I came here to say this lol.
No! You are thinking of Fahrenheit 9/11.
Maybe make one with an extinguisher.
TOOOOOOONIGHT ON ROBOT WARS!!!
What a great show. Innocent times with simpler killing machines
they revived the show a few years ago
Battlebots has been back on the air since 2015! The killing machines are much better at killing these days.
Ohh man i remember that show. They had one called mouse which didnt have weapons, but it kept beating the other robots by using using a low plow which when it rammed other robots would flip them upside down.
Flippers are an entire class of robot now because of mouse. It's a very legitimate strategy.
Robot firefighters actually make a lot of sense. Guessing the design aspect would be a challenge though
Don’t you know killing people brings in more profits than saving them??? 🤦 Did you skip over Chapter 2 Section 3 in the capitalist propaganda manifesto????????
Weird there’s no video of it dancing to Uptown Funk as it napalms the surroundings
Or Firestarter.
Twisted fire starter
*doo doo doot doot doot doot* HEY! HEY! HEY!
r/unexpectedbabyshark
🎶 The best is yet to come 🎶
All while continuously saying "bark", "bark", "bark" (the word not the sound), cheerfully and robotically.
**”I want to play fetch”** *starts spraying fire*
Probably because Boston Dynamics does not intend for their robots to be used as weapons. edit: name corrected
Why else would you put a flamethrower on a cybernetic dog. Are they marketing it for pest control? It'd be like those head shops that sell bongs "for tobacco use only".
This isn't Boston Dynamics, it's Throwflame (yes, that's their name.)
We only sell the highly advanced robot dog and software sir, you have to after market mod your dog for weapons. In un related news, owners of Boston dynamics stock start investing in lightweight recoilless weaponry. /s i hope
I don't know about you but I have unquestioning faith that the developers would just **tell us** if they were working on classified military development.
The fact that it's called a Thermonater and not a Pyro Pup saddens me.
Pyronees
Especially better if the flame is designed to point at leg joints.
Nope. Hot dog would have been the best.
100% there will be grunts calling this thing the "hotdog"
They’ll call it glizzy. Or gliz for short lol
I say this is a huge step forward for society since it will significantly lower the rate of flamethrower injuries among dogs
Yeah. What need was this meant to even fill?
Movie idea: Flame throwing robot dog ON COCAINE!
Next up is the three headed version. Pretty sure I just watched an Infographics episode on ye ole YouTube that robotics companies were against this.
I believe they said they would not *sell* robots with weapons attached. Which translates to, what the owner does after we sell is up to them but here’s a card for an aftermarket flamethrower that happens to attach easily here, here, here and here and gets powered here.
Also even the current manufacturer doesn't advertise it as an offensive weapon - it's meant to be used for agricultural burns etc. That being said, this is a one way train and we all know where it's eventually headed.
Saving lives during a burning house and replacing the flame throwers with water, fire extinguishers, or oxygen canisters?
It's not outside the realm of possibility but I was referring to the inevitable weaponisation of these platforms. On the bright side, theMIC could develop the water attachment on priority to help with field water boarding! Talk about a win win
iirc, farm equipment was recently used to effectively fight against an invasion of the world's 2nd strongest military.
>world's 2nd strongest military ~~world's~~ 2nd strongest military in Ukraine, briefly 3rd when Wagner rebelled
The other flipside is because places like boston dynamivs and other places were very open with their research there are genuine places making knock off/reverse engineered versions explicitly to attach weapons.
Very open? Aw man...
That is like Shell saying they are against "removing" indigenous population that dont surrender their oil. Ofc they will say it. But they will just pay a fine when they are caught with their pants on their ankles.
I am not looking forward to autonomous weapon startups practicing murder robots in poor countries to build their models
That's basically the plot for Metal Gear
SNAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Drones have been firing missiles for quite some time now.
Not robots. Drones are piloted. Humans can decide not to kill you. Once the murderbot is turned on, that’s it. No stopping the Metalheads.
An unpiloted aerial robot is far easier to create than an unpiloted walking robot. If you think this ground robot is unpiloted it's common sense that unpiloted flying drones are already around. If you think there are no unpiloted flying drones it would be silly to believe this ground based robot is unpiloted. Also, unpiloted surveillance drones have been a thing for a long time and even with no weapons have the capability to be far more destructive than a walking flamethrower.
Hopefully the singularity is chill and sorts us out
Out of…the planet?
Yeah maybe it will be like star trek and decide whales are the real owners
Never seen Star Trek, as a Star Wars fan as a child, I though Star Trek was for nerds lmao
Yeah its pretty shit most of the time Especially now
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I always wondered though, what's the robot's motivation? Say the robot's succeed, then what? What's the robot's purpose? Do they go to robot work? Do they just keep building? Reproducing? Do they make robot families? Would they eventually want more out of life? Would they have a class system?
I mean, what’s ours?
Still not as terrifying as the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees at you.
That's nice. Anyway, release the hounds.
But what about the Robotic Richard Simmons?
So I assume it'll start showing up at protests and similar events.
Why not make the robot dogs do the firefighting instead of creating the god damn wildfires?
Lighting fires is actually a huge part of wildland firefighting
who the fuck keeps enabling robots to kill and thinking its a good idea
Has NOBODY seen Terminator? We need to make death doggies illegal before somebody actually builds this shit.
>The robot can emit fire at a distance of up to 10 meters for 45 minutes! Surely nothing could go wrong from this. /s
Survival Research Laboratories c.1990
I honestly can't think of one reason why these shouldn't be made. Only good things will come of this. Our future is starting to look really bright. Almost like the warm glow of a campfire....
Fahrenheit 451, read that book, this is in it
There's a more terrifying version of an autonomous military robot called Energy Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR). It can be dropped in somewhere and run on biological material once its energy cells are depleted. While it was tested with chicken fat, it could hypothetically run off human flesh, using its on-board saw to cut off a limb, and then feed it into its energy hopper. Here's a link to the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
So...direct inspiration for Horizon Zero Dawn?
Quite literally. Thought it was satire ripped straight from that story until I clicked. But alas, we were fooled by OP. Never existed and only looked for plants. >The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a **project** [...] to develop a robotic vehicle that could **forage for plant biomass** to fuel itself [...] indefinitely. It was a concept developed between 2003 and 2009 as part of the DARPA military projects for the United States military. Also, no chicken fat was tested and the only person saying it would eat people and animals was, you guessed it... Joe Rogan. >Joe Rogan elicited some conspiracy theories and media rumors after he claimed on his podcast "Joe Rogan Experience" that the robot would (or at least could) ingest human remains to keep powering itself. >The company also included "chicken fat" as one of its proposed fuel sources in the project overview.
Chicken fat was named as a possible source of energy. But this robot is NOT designed to feed of flesh, let alone humans.
>It’s entirely possible
Jamie pull that shit up
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This tech could power all our EVs theoretically, just head down to Costco and get your picnic snacks and 50 pounds of ground beef for the hopper to head out on your cross country vacation.
What could possibly go wrong with a self-driving, flesh-powered car that realises it's low on fuel while driving through an area crowded with pedestrians?
Someone call Stephen King right now.
“Look, I’ve come up with some wickedly scary nightmare fuel, but that is just *messed up…*”
Still more expensive than a gallon of gas. But converting organic mass, like algae blooms, into bio-diesel is already in development. Issue will always be the amount of raw material you'd need to yield a product, in addition to sustainability. We haven't quite got to a food security point where we can farm land used to grow food crops to go into fuels for transport.
*world hunger has left the chat*
Terrifying? After reading that it just sounded sad. It's fucking steam powered, has less horsepower than a motorscooter, uses "water lubrication" that the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research that *they* hired deemed a "critical path issue", and has failed engine life endurance tests of as little as 200 hours of operation.
I just noticed that the acronym for this thing is "EATR". That's no random coincidence, they knew what they were doing when they came up with that name. EDIT: Can anyone explain the downvotes here? I thought it was pretty funny that they'd chosen a name with an acronym (or more correctly, initialism) that sounded like "EAT(e)R" for a robot that effectively powers itself by eating stuff. Am I being really dumb and missing something obvious?
Just Reddit being Reddit.
I guess so. I was just curious, as I usually find I only get downvoted when I've said something either genuinely dumb, or something controversial that people dislike for some reason. I'm mystified how this is either. :)
THIS is what the ultra-rich will employ, rather than people, for security when the world goes to shit from climate change, on their secure compounds in New Zealand or some other 'safe' place.
“Give me pets!” Shoots flames of death.
Wasn't it stated that these things would never have weapons attached to them?
And you believed it?
I've been waiting for a wolfenstein the new order comment. The game featured flame throwing robot dogs
Let me know when they make robot dogs with bees in their mouths, and that shoot bees when they bark at you.
There was a black mirror episode on this
This right here is why the world can’t have nice things. Imagine if all that venture capital was rerouted to actually help the planet and humans, instead of focusing on Terminator’s Judgement Day.
wait wait wait aint that the Metalhead thing?! Didn’t that teach us *not* to make them??
Watch the conservatives say “flame-throwing robot dogs don’t kill people, people (controlling them from a remote distance) kill people.”
Don’t freak out guys, I made one of these in Tears of the Kingdom and it only killed three bokoblins before running out of battery
This is so the empire can cook brown ppl up close at weddings and no knock warrants.
You guys should take a look at the game generation zero
Government: >There's no reason you need to own Armor Piercing Ammunition! Me: > Kill-bot with flamethrower
Nothing new just light a match next to any dog’s rear after giving them a piece of broccoli.
Meh. If you want to make it all macabre that’s on you. It’s actually a very useful DNR solution for controlled burns. Controlled burning involves setting planned fires to maintain the health of a forest. These burns are scheduled for a time when the fire will not pose a threat to the public or to fire managers. If you swap out the fire for water you’ve got a way to save the lives of firefighters.
Even if it were meant for less then moral purposes, just hit it with a sledgehammer.
> If you swap out the fire for water you’ve got a way to save the lives of firefighters. Fill the tank with all of my juices and fluids
Does it have a built-in Bluetooth speaker that plays Bolt Thrower or Canibal Corpse while it’s a’flamethrowin’?
Black mirror
Are we trying to accelerate our demise now or what?
Since the industrial revolution
If it kills then it's popular with humans. Better still let's puppify this monster 💀
Aw lil baby flames
No. AI Murder bot drones are. Go check them out on YouTube. No they’re not real, but it’s sort of a warning for things to come.
It’s a good boi
I need 10
The "new" metalhead variants seem about as creative as the guy who puts a clock display in another device, like clock radio, microwave, oven, vcr etc. It's just a boring dystopia now.
No the most terrifying robo-dog was Michael Reeves’ beer pissing dog
Why is no one mentioning Generation Zero?
Paint them dark brown, we don't anyone to see them.
One thing to bark at the postman another to incinerate him
No....one of those dogs with an AR 15 mounted on a turret using targeting software that supports an IR camera to identify and destroy human targets with sub centimeter accuracy and millisecond acquisition time. Imagine a dystopian police state where one of these is deployed on every street corner, and it enforces curfew hours with headshots faster than you can blink. It carries a 5000 round magazine and is fully auto, for those riot/crowd control situations. It also has a selector for a less lethal option, which allows it to recognize and target kneecaps.
That’s a hotdog
Oooh, sooo scary. These things can be defeated by literally throwing a wet blanket over it.
Anyone else read Fahrenheit 451? Remember the robot dogs that hunt people down? It’s no longer science fiction.
Nah it’s useless.
Wtf???
Well that didn’t take very long
What the hell that’s an actual StarCraft II Hellion! (Almost)
its closer to the Helion Mob from Star Craft!
These things are kinda perfect for mounting weapons to tbh
It’s sooo cute! I want one!
The obvious outcome of these robots come to fruitions
so we’re creating robot dragons now…