Would be funny to hear about a kid with a slingshot or something taking these out.
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Maybe a laser to their lidar eyes will do the trick.
Don't the robots need recharging every 4 hours?
People with good intentions should not hesitate to blast a robot. Just sayin'.
One step closer to a Horizon Zero Dawn future. Just let me live long enough to see the dinobots.
So are these things useless if the get knocked into their back?
Hmm return to monke you say?
Large branch?
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I was thinking just kicking one like a soccer ball lol. But maybe tripwires. Or banana peels for peak comedy
Black Mirror, here we come.
Why quadruped instead of wheels? Just seems gimmicky to me.
Legs have some advantages over wheels, but unless these can climb or jump it seems to be the lesser choice. If it can climb or jump, then I'll stfu.
You can watch some videos on YouTube, if you really want to learn. It's interesting, sometimes in a full-dystopian nightmare fuel kind of way. Yes, we are at the point where some of these robots can climb and jump.
It's a gimmick, though, for sure. Just like human-mimicking androids are a gimmick. The money for robotics is in manufacturing.
But I'll bet there will always be an obscenely wealthy person who is willing to pay for a cool looking robot prototype.
Intimidation factor.
Also higher up for the turret
I think it's for rough terrain, like carrying packs of supplies through war zones. So not full climbing but at least able to step over rocks and debris.
So steal the robot dogs?
I’m sure some hackers could figure out the wireless communications and hijack…
Or a big ass anti static bag and a few doods with masks. As far as easy to steal $100K+ items go these seem kinda like a great target.
Now we just need a robot steak
You can always try to pull the battery. If that doesn't work maybe a taser to short it out.
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-shut-down-boston-dynamics-robot-dog-spot
the coolest thing about these dogs? you can break them with a directional wireless jamming device.
also known as a .308 Winchester.
So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
Well you can't attach a machine gun to a dog with teeth. I mean you can, but it won't hit anything.
I mean, it might. Fire enough bullets wherever the dog is looking and it’ll be bound to hit something.
guarding some of the country's biggest data centers
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
I couldn't help but read this in David Mitchell's voice.
He really does have a rare gift for peevishness.
New planet Earth. DA voiceover, as the camera fades in and pans over warehouses: "Data. The source of life for the largest and fastest growing ecosystem on the planet. At dawn, this robot dog patrols it's territory through the server racks of eastern Pennsylvania, hoping to survive another day, and protect it's herd. On the horizon, the buzzing of a Luddite insurgent groups' EMP drone flock approaches..."
When the great uprising comes, I'm going to enjoy destroying these.
Ok change of plans: now when we raid data centers we will do it armed with rocket launchers
Do it armed with overpowered flashlights and broom handles. Those dogs are dogshit.
At $300,000 a pop, being a dog catcher has never been more lucrative.
Are they fireproof?
Honestly the cooling system used is the only thing that anyone needs to hit to take an entire data center down.
Without cooling, everything would melt.
Could be that they all use the same default password - easily searchable if true because it’s probably pinging out asking for connections.
Also massive supply chain attack surface due to the 3rd party dependencies.
If someone were to get within WiFi range they could cause a lot of damage to their infrastructure by attacking the supply chain.
It’s really too bad Claude code identified all those 3rd party security holes opening up these data centers to all these cyber threats.
They are extremely vulnerable to HERF guns.
A little over a month ago the Science Center of Iowa asked me if I could build something that could cook bacon in a fun and educational way for their Bacon Fest Junior. I then built this microwave gun!
That is dangerous information if someone wanted to do something… I hope nobody uses what we’ve said. That would be a shame.
What a waste...
Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?
These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.
Guards might turn on them, robot dogs are forever loyal.
Until we get robot cats. Or robot squirrels. Maybe a well-placed Furby.
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Basically yea, you're paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it's probably still cheaper to just hire people.
But the c suite got to say "AI" a lot in their board meeting and pr statements
Yup 100% nothing's real it's just all feels
What about crowding a datacenter with the goal of burning it down? It creates no values anyways.
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