While the robotic dog seen at Mar-a-Lago is not armed, she says competitors appear to be experimenting with models that are.
“People are trying to weaponise these dogs,” Cummings adds, citing a Chinese model with an attached rifle which she learned about at a robotics meeting this week.
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Accelerationism coming from exactly the social class we expected
So they have a coffee brewer on their back but you cannot pet? Please make sense.
They're guard dogs
Coo at them. Pet them. Call them a good doggie. Drop a treat on them, all in defiance.
That's a unique approach to suicide-by-cop
The ones at Mar-A-Lago are unarmed.
My approach to the armed ones, particularly the TASER-equipped ones used by some US law enforcement departments, would be very different.
They are also not autonomous. They have armed secret service agents very nearby. If the sensors on the dog alert them, trigger happy armed guards will come.
Joke's on them, I won the robot dogs over with my pets and can turn the sentry turrets against the guards.
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Keep the proles out.