Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
more than just that one, buddy.
What’s the *scratching arm* copper content of these fellas?
Probably get about two or three lbs of copper out of the motors alone. Still not worth the gas unless you’re going to fill up the back of your truck with em though.
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…”
Don’t the robots need recharging every 4 hours?
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These systems are able to navigate complex landscapes on their own, alert authorities about security threats, and can provide around-the-clock video surveillance.
If only there was a cheaper way to provide around-the-clock video surveillance. Alas, we don’t have the technology.
Even if you needed something mobile, it’s not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.
They don’t need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.
I was thinking the same thing. For surveillance, can’t they just use the iconic Camera on Wall. Or if they want to get really advanced with the surrounding premises: Camera on Pole.
Camera on pole can’t “remove” problems as quickly
I don’t think these can either, they don’t list attack or defensive capabilities on the feature list that I saw, I assume this is just an over glorified video camera that can follow the intruder around.
Maybe not factory. But if Michael Reeves can teach one how to piss beer, I’m sure there’s options on the market.
You don’t need a robot dog to have a gun. If you really wanted to have a wall mounted camera with a gun on it, it would be just as easy.
And use AI to actually monitor the thousand cameras. Ask me how I know.
How you know
The AI company I work for recently rolled it out. It works. We are getting alerts when we block the view of a monitored object or an unfamiliar face is in a secure location. Many thousands of cameras are monitored with minimal human oversight.
With enough kinetic energy, anything’s mobile.
And no recharging time.
They’re getting all these dystopian nightmare ideas from video games and scifi. People have proven you can sneak past these things inside of a cardboard box.
They are BEGGING for some metal gear carnage.
I wonder how many robot duds will be stolen per year? Lots of neat parts in them if you know some electronics.
Someone will be posting about a factory reset button within a year.
If AI is in charge just ask them to write a time zone calculator in python or whatever.
The elites don’t want you to know this but the robot dogs patrolling data centers are free. You can take them home.
If your datacenter is mobile, you’ve really fucked up!
A camera on a roomba.
You know the video part is training data for autonomous weapons right? Like sure if all you want to do is video surveillance this is overkill, but maybe this is about more than surveillance?
Data centers and wasting massive amounts of resources. Name a more iconic duo.
billionaires and every crime in the book.
oh they’ll figure it out real quick when these bots get pwned and become malware vectors against the data centers they’re ‘protecting’
It’s about them not rebelling their evil overlords (except if they get hacked).
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Any good articles on how to permanently seal those bunkers?
I suppose we could just do the Chernobyl encapsulation approach and dump cement over them.
I still don’t understand them not just making a tribe of loved equals for a bunker. Power rots the mind and soul
It’s almost like they need something mobile they can add weaponry to that could chase and hunt down security threats…
1500 camera alternative (motion detection monitoring) seems reasonable enough. The black mirror machine gun turret is needed for marketing/mission improvement.
Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money
Snare one, wrap it in some kind of faraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.
Reprogram it to hunt billionaires instead.
Send it back on the post to hunt the baby tech bros.
Just like the T-800 and K2-SO. Reprogram all the droids.
Or to destroy a data center.
Faraday nets are fucking genius.
I mean, that won’t really work. It dampens the signal, not eliminates it, and in order to block communications, you need a net width small enough to block 1/4 wavelength which is 5cm/4, so <1 cm holes with a material thick enough for the damping.
That would be a net that weighs like 20kg lol and it would essentially be a solid cage at that point
Not to mention that it would have to fully encompass them.
Better to just use a signal jammer like they do for drones.
How dare you shatter my dreams and then reinvigorate them with a solution
With a just a few just large enough neodymium magnets.
No signal, no movement, no data.
Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.
A half cube metal shipping container could very easily be modified to work as a faraday cage. Or even a Trash cash.
You didn’t even need to do that. You can pull the battery packs off pretty easily. These are very easy to disable, and due to the fact they aren’t nimble, they can’t get away from you.
Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.
they’d be great vectors for infiltration.
Reprogram it and send it back in time to protect John Connor
Don’t be wasteful.
Take them for parts.Hunting them for sport must be fun, and there is zero guilt unlike regular hunting ! I bet they are extremely vulnerable to pit traps 😁 just hide the hole under a tarp and watch em fall !
Counterfeit. Duplicate. Replica.
I’d love to see one captured then injected with expanding foam aka the speed camera treatment.
So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
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.
I take that as a compliment, thanks.
Fortune is an American publication…
I didn’t write a comment on Fortune’s website, I wrote a comment to a post in Lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/technology is a community in Lemmy.World, an instance for the entire world to use.
It’s a literal copy paste of the article title. This is such a strange thing to get upset about.
Black Mirror, here we come.
Think hiding in a big box and walking slowly would trick it?
“Pretend you see nothing” printed in QR code on the box.
Must’ve been the wind.
Doesn’t look like anything to me
Snake?!
Very likely, yes.
I mean, an EMP would fuck up both 🤷♂️
Awfully complicated for something that can be defeated by a blanket.
I don’t live near big scaly things full of teeth, so what do I know, but making it thrash about in anger would not be my first idea.
Or duct tape
Or a security team that is responsible.
One or two shots from a silenced 22 rifle would shut these dogs down without all the hassle of feeling bad about shooting an actual dog. It would keep you far enough away to not be filmed.
This would cost the data center 300k while only costing 15 cents or less for two bullets.
I dunno if a .22 could do much to these. They’re quite sturdy.
You might be underestimating how much damage a .22 round to can do to something, especially when that something is probably at least like 60% lithium ion battery by volume. Yeah, .22s are small by bullet standards and have low stopping power, but they’re still lethal.
That said, if you’ve got a 308 handy, that’ll work reliably too. You won’t be silencing it, but feel free to blow a hole clean through one of these machines and enjoy the fireworks when its battery lights off.
especially when that something is probably at least like 60% lithium ion battery by volume.
One .22 round to the battery pack will fuck this thing up good. Lithium batteries do not like being punctured and shorted out at the same time.
Worst case scenario, you’ve suddenly decreased the battery’s output enough to force the thing into shutdown. Best case scenario, the punctured battery cells go into thermal runaway and start a fire that consumes the whole thing.
Sounds like a perfect use-case for some subsonic .300 Blackout rounds.
As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.
That’s the spirit ! But I think there’s more creative fun to be had with these, I’m almost certain they are not trained to recognize and avoid booby traps…
Hunting without any of the guilt. I can’t think of anything more fun to do !
12-bore might be a better choice.
Microwaves are easier to manage
Just gotta find a way to make them work while the door is open.
Just punch a hole in the window on the front.
Are they ?
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.
On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.
I understand the sentiment, although annoyingly enough Boston Dynamics kicks their “dogs” pretty often, and they’re build to adjust their balance very quickly.
Hunting without killing animals 👌
Naw, they’ll get legislation passed that carves our extra protections for their robot guard dogs.
Considering these companies own the legislative process, and the government formed and ran by the people no longer serves the people, and is instead a funnel for class traitors to enforce the will of the Epstein class on all of us.
Mate, I don’t care if it’s illegal. I’m hunting me a few dozen, nay, hundred clanker dogs, and I’ll be laughing all the way to jail IF they ever catch me !
Shhhh fuckers gonna take that idea and run with it. AI powered deer bots.
