So now these exist and the Boston Dynamics videos don't seem like much fun any morehttps://futurism.com/the-byte/army-robot-dogs-guns-middle-eastYou'll never guess where they are being used already.
― John Backflip (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:55 (three months ago) link
Dud
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 4 October 2024 16:29 (three months ago) link
The US military is deeply, madly in love with any technology that allows them to kill human beings enemies and destroy things with minimal or no risk to their own soldiers human assets. They know that US casualties make wars military operations unpopular with US citizens, but massively expensive weapons military hardware like stealth bombers, cruise missiles, or killer robot dogs, just fatten up the death merchants defense industries and their shareholders.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 4 October 2024 17:43 (three months ago) link
well maybe one day it will be robots killing robots and war becomes a sport where no one dies
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 4 October 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 4 October 2024 17:57 (three months ago) link
Pretty good Robert Sheckley short story about robots being used to fight Armageddon and what happens after, "The Battle"
https://forums.trenchwars.com/general/27828-robert-sheckley-the-battle
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 October 2024 18:05 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtdUW4dHLq0
― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Friday, 4 October 2024 19:17 (three months ago) link
In the future, the only human jobs will be in robot design, robot manufacturing, and robot maintenance.
― two turntables and a slide trombone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 October 2024 19:18 (three months ago) link
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― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 October 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link