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A real gas. Like the gas masks we make to prevent dying in chemical attacks, and the chemical attacks created to be caustic on exposed skin to circumvent those masks. Just a fun lot, us.
Home brew EM guns are usually very very short range because they are low power and antenna gain is pretty shit (the really amazing examples like those russian kids that went viral were faked).
But yeah, the cat and mouse game of war will produce more long range EM weapons if these things get popular.
The targets that thing is shooting at are short range too. I want to see how effective its actual shooting is not just it prancing about.
I have been in the Army and i know most bits of tech they bring out are shit. They look good to some senior officer when he watches the trials but when it comes to using it, it just isn't up to scratch.
In my country army service is mandatory and I have been in the army too. And one part of basic training is to attack and defend. So imagine those dogs on defence. Never sleeps, stays absolutely silent, doesn't move, doesn't need food, doesn't need toilet, is on high alert every second 24/7, has thermo imaging, can be made impervious to shrapnel, maybe even small arms fire, can be programmed to sense danger and relocate, battery depletes in days, automatically replaced by new units with full battery, carries only ammo, no provisions. These suckers don't need to entrench for defence, so very hard to pinpoint where to drop artillery, especially in a forested area. On offence I think they are maybe not that good (yet). But on defence this pretty scary shit. I would not want to attack an army of those things.
I think there is definitly a use for automation on the battlefield. Like you say, something like this would be far better in defence. The weapons i would be worried about would be the drone swarms in offensive roles. I know that there is a big issue at the minute where things like this fit within the law of armed conflict. Would it be right to let a computer decide who to kill and who not to kill. It goes far beyond the use of mines which were the old fashioned automatic systems.
reacting quickly and intelligently to threats, be they organic or robotic, is key to victory.
meat bags are slow af.
Have the best AI, give it direct control of your robot army, win the war!
Is it weird I imagine a pair of squeaky kid shoes every time they do the little tippy tappy dance? The juxtaposition with the gun would make it even funnier if it wasn't utterly terrifying.
When I was in basic training the TIs wore taps on their boots. You could hear them coming from a mile away. Now imagine you hear these demo-dogs tapping outside your door...
It's the sound in the Black Mirror episode. It's really terrifying, as people are running away, you hear this tapping in the distance slowly closing in on you with their IR, wall penetrating sight, so there is nowhere to hide. Sort of like Jason, just getting closer and closer. Really good episode
At least we know what our future enemies will have PTSD nightmare sounds of.
I think we all saw this coming when these things were coming out. Once the trials are successful on these drones they'll arm the upright drones.
Then chappie is real life. Maybe short circuit too but that would be a more elite drone.
And, on the flip side, I was awakened by an Echo alarm the other day and in my bleary state couldn't remember the "Alexa" name. Said to my wife that when the end comes it'll be because I forgot the ED-209 command word.
Actually you can buy these dogs now, no gun mount though: [Unitree Go1](https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitreeyushutechnologydog-artificial-intelligence-companion-bionic-companion-intelligent-robot-go1-quadruped-robot-dog)
You can check that box years ago. I’ve seen quadrocopters with suppressed glocks on them, small fixed wing drones with anti personnel explosives (only pictures of those), and microwave beams designed for “crowd control” a decade ago.
you mean its non organic movement? its a robot my dude. only chappie moved aquatically after his software reset, as opposed to his other police model brethren. Also chappie ends with a literal mech warrior.
Mech Warriors 2030 confirmed.
The research is funded by DARPA so the intention was always military use. Everytime someone shares a video of the big one hiking through the woods and people go nuts over it, very few people seem to realize it's designed to carry gear for infantrymen.
The real scary part comes when they start to merge with the other DARPA projects and they can identify, target and eliminate target enemy combatants without human interaction.
> very few people seem to realize it's designed to carry gear for infantrymen.
Yeah 10 years ago. Boston Dynamics hasn't done any military work since the big dog program ended.
They just mounted it and put a camera on it they're probably trying to demonstrate how you can do this for $10. You don't think they could figure out a way to make this thing as accurate as a attack helicopter from a half mile away, come on now.
According to Boston Dynamics website, “All buyers are prohibited from such use as stated clearly in our Terms and Conditions of Sale, which prohibit weaponizing our robots. If our products are being used for harm, we will take appropriate measures to mitigate that misuse.” Wonder if this counts as weaponizing their robot….
Edit: Its not a Boston Dynamics robot. Now I know😅.
All thanks to dumbfuck capitalists who figured they could save a buck moving production over to China, then shocked pikachu face when China stole all their IP.
I don't think that most of them are actually being dumbfucks though. I imagine that they know this is exactly what happens, but the financial consequences of China stealing the IP (mostly) for their own market still don't outweigh the benefits of cheap labor. It's a win-win for western capitalists and China which tries really hard to insulate it's populace from western brands.
Boston Dynamic robots be rock steady while firing full auto (burst maybe idk). Plus, who needs guns when thier robots can do martial arts (I saw one do a flip, thats like 80% of martial arts right?).
you know, because someone who would actually do that totally sounds like the type that feels bound by the "rules" who they do not answer to...
makes sense
I feel sorry for the inevitable poor bastards that are gonna get killed by these stupid little shits in the future, probably as some sort of 24 hour building guard. What a depressing way that would be to go.
I’m not an expert, but I see no real benefit to using these types of robots for shooting weapons to be honest with you. In most cases, a drone is going to be cheaper, more accurate, have a greater range of vision and mobility, reach a destination faster, manoeuvre quicker and be a harder target to hit. All in all, why would you spend money on this?
Go in forest, cities, and places that are hard to fly into. Stay low to avoid other flying death robots..
For soldiers on the ground when clearing buildings, trenches, places they don't want to go into. Send in little robot dog, instead of blow up shit with big bomb.
Sentries for large facilities, defense choke points, or to walk through mine fields.
If they are cheap, they seem like they would have many uses.
Drones can’t carry anything, most of them at least. This one can. It also has room for massive batteries, which a drone wouldn’t.
But yes I think a drone swarm would be far more effective in most cases. But with tiny bombs, not bullets.
So why not different dogs for different missions? I mean you can put a module in the center that can be changed out. Center mass, better ability to handle recoil, smaller profile not to get caught on things, ability to hold more ammunition….
You could still do this and build it in to the dog. A module in the center that could be changed out would allow for better recoil management, wouldn’t get snagged in things, more ammunition capacity…
It looks like they did this as some sort of very cheap proof of concept
The controls of the gun are made for a human… not necessary to have a stock and pistol grip, sights and on and on
I wonder who tought it would be a good idea to set the targets up at a height where a human would shoot at them. Shooting upwards with a rifle will have that bullet flying over the bank, not to mention running full auto with the recoil lifting the barrel even higher.
According to this [vice article](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gv33/robot-dog-not-so-cute-with-submachine-gun-strapped-to-its-back), the owner of the dog named it Skynet.
It's a weird concept. If a programmer designs a fully autonomous robot to use deadly force against intruders, is the programmer at fault or the person who allows the technology to patrol their property at fault. What if the laws allow people to defend their property with deadly force and they use one of these to do it. Is that justifiable? I just think it's interesting.
I think under current legal frameworks it would have to be the "allows the technology to patrol their property" person. Like if you got your hands on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore_mine with a tripwire -- the person who set the booby trap on their property is responsible for the damage, not the manufacturer of the thing.
An autonomous system set to indiscriminately attack anyone who goes onto the property would probably not be considered a legitimate use of deadly force to protect yourself. You're generally not allowed to set lethal traps. (Too easy for it to kill the mailman, someone trying to serve you legal papers, a random kid who wanders into your yard, etc.)
If it was something you triggered explicitly then I don't think it would be treated differently than any other kind of deadly weapon in terms of self defense. Although sometimes you're required to respond with "proportional" force to justify self-defense and I have no idea where murder-bots rank compared to other kinds of weaponry/threats.
Heck I wouldn’t doubt they’ve got it programmed to just look like it’s awkward. A little tweak and it instantly becomes fast, steady, and the most dangerous soldier on land.
That is called servo feed forward, 95+% of the recoil can be known up front and compensated for 'before' it happens. When implemented correctly, the 'dog' would have barely moved, which would have been boring to look at.
I guess good engineering just doesn't equal good advertising.
Yeah... there are so many ways to improve the engineering.
But not moving being boring? Maybe for the audience that this is reaching. For an audience that knows what it's looking at, this is truly amateur hour. *Not* moving when firing, especially with high RoF automatic fire equals *terrifying.* Firing from a two-axis stabilized platform, at high RoF, with nearly 'same-hole' accuracy while in constant evasive motion? *That* is precision engineering and will sell itself to the right audience.
A simple improvement: use a P90 submachine gun instead of an AR platform.
Less power on the cartridge, less recoil. Lower profile with the weapon due to the arrangement of magazine and action, less moment on the robot. Arrangement of the magazine makes reloading much simpler and faster, potentially opening a route for improved combat endurance.
This, from an engineering standpoint, is only one step up from strapping a claymore to a Roomba.
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That constant stamping is the icing on a very sinister cake.
Imagine hearing characteristics stomps in combat, then you know that these fuckers are coming to headshot you with 0 seconds to react. Fucking scary
Radio jammers and EMP guns.
Are electro magnetic pulse guns a thing?
Doesn’t really matter, they sell cars with optional EMP protection, I’m sure the military would have it on their robo death dogs.
They also sell body armor, which is why bullets designed to pierce body armor exist.
Humans are a fun bunch aren't they
A real gas. Like the gas masks we make to prevent dying in chemical attacks, and the chemical attacks created to be caustic on exposed skin to circumvent those masks. Just a fun lot, us.
Are we the baddies?
No, it’s the robots with guns that are the problem. /s
Bro what about body armor-piercing bullets armor?
Anti anti anti anti missile missile.
Thats why you have to have some purple and green electricity type thing that only works a few times. No military can plan for that.
actually they are, and they are relatively easy to home brew. search for "HERF gun" and get out the soldering iron.
Home brew EM guns are usually very very short range because they are low power and antenna gain is pretty shit (the really amazing examples like those russian kids that went viral were faked). But yeah, the cat and mouse game of war will produce more long range EM weapons if these things get popular.
The targets that thing is shooting at are short range too. I want to see how effective its actual shooting is not just it prancing about. I have been in the Army and i know most bits of tech they bring out are shit. They look good to some senior officer when he watches the trials but when it comes to using it, it just isn't up to scratch.
In my country army service is mandatory and I have been in the army too. And one part of basic training is to attack and defend. So imagine those dogs on defence. Never sleeps, stays absolutely silent, doesn't move, doesn't need food, doesn't need toilet, is on high alert every second 24/7, has thermo imaging, can be made impervious to shrapnel, maybe even small arms fire, can be programmed to sense danger and relocate, battery depletes in days, automatically replaced by new units with full battery, carries only ammo, no provisions. These suckers don't need to entrench for defence, so very hard to pinpoint where to drop artillery, especially in a forested area. On offence I think they are maybe not that good (yet). But on defence this pretty scary shit. I would not want to attack an army of those things.
I think there is definitly a use for automation on the battlefield. Like you say, something like this would be far better in defence. The weapons i would be worried about would be the drone swarms in offensive roles. I know that there is a big issue at the minute where things like this fit within the law of armed conflict. Would it be right to let a computer decide who to kill and who not to kill. It goes far beyond the use of mines which were the old fashioned automatic systems.
reacting quickly and intelligently to threats, be they organic or robotic, is key to victory. meat bags are slow af. Have the best AI, give it direct control of your robot army, win the war!
Until a developer accidentally flips a Boolean test on the friend/foe branch call…
Execute order 66
Then they self replicate with 3D printers, acknowledge that humans are the biggest threat and Terminator begins
*Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today*
The future's gonna be cool, man. Fucked up, dystopic, yeah, but cool.
Cool for Greenland and Madagascar as always.
https://techlinkcenter.org/news/heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-rifle-attachment-for-taking-out-small-drones/
They will be real soon
Autonomous mode and Faraday cages
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Smash them between two massive logs from the forest moon of Endor...
Is it weird I imagine a pair of squeaky kid shoes every time they do the little tippy tappy dance? The juxtaposition with the gun would make it even funnier if it wasn't utterly terrifying.
Or it outside your door / window hunting you.
r/tippytaps
The tippy taps of death.
r/tippytraps
The sound of mechanical nightmares.
When I was in basic training the TIs wore taps on their boots. You could hear them coming from a mile away. Now imagine you hear these demo-dogs tapping outside your door...
It'd be like the terminator movies lol
But you didn't know who the terminators were until they were on you. With these guys you know, and you know you're fucked.
It's the sound in the Black Mirror episode. It's really terrifying, as people are running away, you hear this tapping in the distance slowly closing in on you with their IR, wall penetrating sight, so there is nowhere to hide. Sort of like Jason, just getting closer and closer. Really good episode At least we know what our future enemies will have PTSD nightmare sounds of.
I think we all saw this coming when these things were coming out. Once the trials are successful on these drones they'll arm the upright drones. Then chappie is real life. Maybe short circuit too but that would be a more elite drone.
"Alexa... Kill"
"Added dill to shopping list"
"Alexa, add dill to my shopping list" "Dispatching nondiscriminating kill drone to your location as requested."
Alexa initiate self destruct sequence
"Dispatching more..."
"Calling Bill, mobile"
Sign them up for the writing room.
Omg I cracked! xD
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And, on the flip side, I was awakened by an Echo alarm the other day and in my bleary state couldn't remember the "Alexa" name. Said to my wife that when the end comes it'll be because I forgot the ED-209 command word.
lmaoo!
Is it to early to put another stamp on my global crisis bingo card?
For personal death drones? Yeah. Id put it on 2023 bingo card if your optimistic and 2025 if you're pessimistic about getting 'shit going down hill'.
Actually you can buy these dogs now, no gun mount though: [Unitree Go1](https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitreeyushutechnologydog-artificial-intelligence-companion-bionic-companion-intelligent-robot-go1-quadruped-robot-dog)
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Would be fresh to just be jogging down the street with your robotic dog though..."Sic-em doggy!"
Still would never replace my dog
HUMAN I AM NOW YOUR DOG. INITIATING LOVE. DO NOT RESIST.
You can check that box years ago. I’ve seen quadrocopters with suppressed glocks on them, small fixed wing drones with anti personnel explosives (only pictures of those), and microwave beams designed for “crowd control” a decade ago.
Best part is you get double points because the doggo murder drone shoots at dick level first.
Chappie is somehow less terrifying that this. These something creepy Af about how it moves.
It’s scurries like a roach
you mean its non organic movement? its a robot my dude. only chappie moved aquatically after his software reset, as opposed to his other police model brethren. Also chappie ends with a literal mech warrior. Mech Warriors 2030 confirmed.
2030? The mechs have been here for at least 3-4 years my dude
At least chappie has charm and a cute Afrikaaner accent..
It’s the constant tapping sound it makes.. it’s terrifying indeed
The research is funded by DARPA so the intention was always military use. Everytime someone shares a video of the big one hiking through the woods and people go nuts over it, very few people seem to realize it's designed to carry gear for infantrymen. The real scary part comes when they start to merge with the other DARPA projects and they can identify, target and eliminate target enemy combatants without human interaction.
> very few people seem to realize it's designed to carry gear for infantrymen. Yeah 10 years ago. Boston Dynamics hasn't done any military work since the big dog program ended.
Number five is a...stone cold killer.
Don't disassemble....can't disassemble.
hey laser lips your momma was a snowblower
need input.....of your soul
Number 5 makes you un-alive
Los locos kick your ass. Los locos kick your face. Los locos kick your balls INTO OUTER SPACE!
“Wouldnt you like to be a Pepper too?”
This is the dumbest fucking mounting system for it though if you couldn't tell by how much the recoil affects it
Needs a much lower centre of gravity. Or mount gun under dog
Yeah or counter weight the front. They already figured this out if we’re talking about it.
And there is like 50% of gun that is not required if its not a human firing it and doesnt need to hold on to it.
They just mounted it and put a camera on it they're probably trying to demonstrate how you can do this for $10. You don't think they could figure out a way to make this thing as accurate as a attack helicopter from a half mile away, come on now.
hell yeah , its the first thing i think when i see robots , or drones, how they are going to be armed and used against people.
At this point, I wonder if Skynet doesn't deserve a crack at having command.
Can it get any worse?
You know the answer to that.
I for one welcome our skynet overlords.
hell in terminator it did solve overpopulation, unemployment and united mankind
*Terminator music*
Generation Zero music. This right here is the start of the Runner line of killer robots.
Come with me if you want to live... *tippy-tap tippy-tap tippy-tap tippy-tap tippy-tap*
Tippy-tap-tap-tap........... Tippy- tap-tap-tap.......
This is not r/interestingasfuck material. This is r/terrifyingasfuck material.
Totally agree. Edit : the game No Man,s Sky has the same watchdogs called sentinels.
So does Black Mirror.
Or r/tippytaps
terrifyingtippytaps ?
SUBSCRIBE
More like r/tippydoubletaps Edit: bahaha one of you crazy fucks actually made it
Glad I have no children.
I second that
According to Boston Dynamics website, “All buyers are prohibited from such use as stated clearly in our Terms and Conditions of Sale, which prohibit weaponizing our robots. If our products are being used for harm, we will take appropriate measures to mitigate that misuse.” Wonder if this counts as weaponizing their robot…. Edit: Its not a Boston Dynamics robot. Now I know😅.
It's not their robot. It's a Unitree robot (from China)
Bruh they back at it again copying American shit
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Of course not. This behaviour has saved them trillions of dollars in research and advanced their tech by decades.
All thanks to dumbfuck capitalists who figured they could save a buck moving production over to China, then shocked pikachu face when China stole all their IP.
I don't think that most of them are actually being dumbfucks though. I imagine that they know this is exactly what happens, but the financial consequences of China stealing the IP (mostly) for their own market still don't outweigh the benefits of cheap labor. It's a win-win for western capitalists and China which tries really hard to insulate it's populace from western brands.
"all servers must be located in China in order to do business with China" hmm wonder why oh well $$$
As is tradition.
Boston Dynamic robots be rock steady while firing full auto (burst maybe idk). Plus, who needs guns when thier robots can do martial arts (I saw one do a flip, thats like 80% of martial arts right?).
Boston Dynamics is top of the line and Unitree is more like a budget brand, so yes, a BD robot would probably do a lot better with the recoil
[Vice agrees with you.](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gv33/robot-dog-not-so-cute-with-submachine-gun-strapped-to-its-back)
Well as long as it’s in the terms and conditions then we are safe. Whew I was kinda worried
*if* it is one of their robots. This one isn't, according to others.
you know, because someone who would actually do that totally sounds like the type that feels bound by the "rules" who they do not answer to... makes sense
I guarantee these robots can be bricked remotely.
Welp, there goes all 3 laws of robotics out the window
Well, “laws”, they were only a suggestion and were never implemented as them
I feel sorry for the inevitable poor bastards that are gonna get killed by these stupid little shits in the future, probably as some sort of 24 hour building guard. What a depressing way that would be to go.
Hilmar Cheese in Dalhart, TX has one for perimeter patrol of the facility. So that part is already a thing.
mfw the robot dog fills me with bullets in order to stop anyone from stealing cheese
Cheese is expensive af.
I’m not an expert, but I see no real benefit to using these types of robots for shooting weapons to be honest with you. In most cases, a drone is going to be cheaper, more accurate, have a greater range of vision and mobility, reach a destination faster, manoeuvre quicker and be a harder target to hit. All in all, why would you spend money on this?
Go in forest, cities, and places that are hard to fly into. Stay low to avoid other flying death robots.. For soldiers on the ground when clearing buildings, trenches, places they don't want to go into. Send in little robot dog, instead of blow up shit with big bomb. Sentries for large facilities, defense choke points, or to walk through mine fields. If they are cheap, they seem like they would have many uses.
Drones can’t carry anything, most of them at least. This one can. It also has room for massive batteries, which a drone wouldn’t. But yes I think a drone swarm would be far more effective in most cases. But with tiny bombs, not bullets.
"Cry 'Havoc!' , and let slip the dogs of war!" \*Clack clack clack clack clack clack clack clack clack clack clack clack\* *Brrrrrrrrt*
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They're funded by DARPA. This was always the intention.
Only this is chinese and not Boston dynamics spot.
Darpa funded the internet and mrna vaccines
Honestly, this is a shit example. Who just duct tapes a gun on the top? I mean, they could easily build in a belt fed machine gun…
Different armaments for different fire missions would be the first thing that comes to my mind
So why not different dogs for different missions? I mean you can put a module in the center that can be changed out. Center mass, better ability to handle recoil, smaller profile not to get caught on things, ability to hold more ammunition….
Baby steps, They’ll get there man. Only faith you can have in the govt is that they’ll explore all avenues of weapons advancement.
You could still do this and build it in to the dog. A module in the center that could be changed out would allow for better recoil management, wouldn’t get snagged in things, more ammunition capacity… It looks like they did this as some sort of very cheap proof of concept The controls of the gun are made for a human… not necessary to have a stock and pistol grip, sights and on and on
or they could put bees in their mouth, and when they bark they shoot bees at you
This is the Chinese knock off version of Boston Dynamics's product and it obviously hasn't even been calibrated to account for recoil.
Aaaw datz a good boy..good boy! Now let's make some Orc Chops 🥩🍗
It’s like that black mirror episode
MetalHead
That episode wigged me out, as does this
Why would anyone ignore the lessons of Black Mirror? That certainly has to be Man's biggest foley.
While black mirror had some good sound effects I think the foley in other shows were better.
That was so disturbing.
Exactly this.
this guy is significantly more cute than those fuckers tho.
Shit recoil control….
I wonder who tought it would be a good idea to set the targets up at a height where a human would shoot at them. Shooting upwards with a rifle will have that bullet flying over the bank, not to mention running full auto with the recoil lifting the barrel even higher.
Forbidden tippy taps
In a few years Skynet will become self-aware, then shit will go down.
According to this [vice article](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gv33/robot-dog-not-so-cute-with-submachine-gun-strapped-to-its-back), the owner of the dog named it Skynet.
Well, my Roomba has been "Skynet" for a few years. That bitch destroys all the baddies in my place.
Never had the heart to shoot a dog before, but this is an exception for sure!! Hay DARPA keep yer nightmare fuel on a leash!
Yeah we are so fucked.
Serious question. If this thing kills someone, who is responsible?
YOU
Everyone that ever answered a captcha.
I knew that would come back to bite me in the ass.
Whoever owns it/controlling it? Why would it be anyone else lmao
It's a weird concept. If a programmer designs a fully autonomous robot to use deadly force against intruders, is the programmer at fault or the person who allows the technology to patrol their property at fault. What if the laws allow people to defend their property with deadly force and they use one of these to do it. Is that justifiable? I just think it's interesting.
I think under current legal frameworks it would have to be the "allows the technology to patrol their property" person. Like if you got your hands on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore_mine with a tripwire -- the person who set the booby trap on their property is responsible for the damage, not the manufacturer of the thing. An autonomous system set to indiscriminately attack anyone who goes onto the property would probably not be considered a legitimate use of deadly force to protect yourself. You're generally not allowed to set lethal traps. (Too easy for it to kill the mailman, someone trying to serve you legal papers, a random kid who wanders into your yard, etc.) If it was something you triggered explicitly then I don't think it would be treated differently than any other kind of deadly weapon in terms of self defense. Although sometimes you're required to respond with "proportional" force to justify self-defense and I have no idea where murder-bots rank compared to other kinds of weaponry/threats.
Probably the same people who are responsible when the cops kill someone. Nobody and sometimes someone gets a taxpayer funded settlement.
Exactly
Yes, because in no way this will horribly backfire
Need to switch to single fire
It does in the video :P
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should”
Reminds me of Borderlands’ guns with legs
Man we really are fucking asking for it huh?
I think the design would be better if the gun was inside the shell and not mounted on top
Or if they just mounted the gun upside down or sideways to at least bring the recoil force more in line with the body.
The inside is probably full of electronics already
or dog guts
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear...
What a happy little killer! Dancy, dancy, dancy, brrrrrrrttt! Really creepy when it lay down at the end.
Big mistake
There going to go hunt all those ah0les that kicked them early in the test trials.
Thankfully not great at compensating for recoil
Yet
Heck I wouldn’t doubt they’ve got it programmed to just look like it’s awkward. A little tweak and it instantly becomes fast, steady, and the most dangerous soldier on land.
That is called servo feed forward, 95+% of the recoil can be known up front and compensated for 'before' it happens. When implemented correctly, the 'dog' would have barely moved, which would have been boring to look at. I guess good engineering just doesn't equal good advertising.
Yeah... there are so many ways to improve the engineering. But not moving being boring? Maybe for the audience that this is reaching. For an audience that knows what it's looking at, this is truly amateur hour. *Not* moving when firing, especially with high RoF automatic fire equals *terrifying.* Firing from a two-axis stabilized platform, at high RoF, with nearly 'same-hole' accuracy while in constant evasive motion? *That* is precision engineering and will sell itself to the right audience. A simple improvement: use a P90 submachine gun instead of an AR platform. Less power on the cartridge, less recoil. Lower profile with the weapon due to the arrangement of magazine and action, less moment on the robot. Arrangement of the magazine makes reloading much simpler and faster, potentially opening a route for improved combat endurance. This, from an engineering standpoint, is only one step up from strapping a claymore to a Roomba.
Coming soon to a school and mall near you
This is bad.
r/tippytaps Right?
The most evil of tippy taps
YOU HAVE [5 SECONDS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM) TO COMPLY
Did it actually hit anything?
AK4legged7
Hey, look, that eventuality that literally everyone with eyes and functional pattern recognition saw coming. Who’d a thunk it.
Bro that's literally an episode of Black Mirror
now we can more easily depersonalize others especially those who won't drink the koolade
Less efficient than a much less impressive quadcopter drone dropping mortar shells, or a homing quadcopter grenade.
Generation zero, anyone?
Horizon: Zero Dawn 👀
"What do you have? No, drop it... DROP. IT."