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5 daysI have questions about how close they can get to a human. Robotic have energy/force and still have laws about that. A common arm has to have slowdown or safe working protocols when a human is virgin the vicinity.
So what if a human gets in its way, say it’s encircled. Will it have just stop?
What if you put your arm under near a leg axis? Will it stop movement etc?
- XLE@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
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.
- LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 months
They don’t need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.
- XLE@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
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.
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.
- halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
Maybe not factory. But if Michael Reeves can teach one how to piss beer, I’m sure there’s options on the market.
- LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 months
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.
- Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
And use AI to actually monitor the thousand cameras. Ask me how I know.
- Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
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.
- Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
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.
- anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
I wonder how many robot duds will be stolen per year? Lots of neat parts in them if you know some electronics.
- Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
Someone will be posting about a factory reset button within a year.
- anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
If AI is in charge just ask them to write a time zone calculator in python or whatever.
- Chivera@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
The elites don’t want you to know this but the robot dogs patrolling data centers are free. You can take them home.
- rynn@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
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?
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Data centers and wasting massive amounts of resources. Name a more iconic duo.
- borkborkbork@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
oh they’ll figure it out real quick when these bots get pwned and become malware vectors against the data centers they’re ‘protecting’
- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
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
- captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I still don’t understand them not just making a tribe of loved equals for a bunker. Power rots the mind and soul
- phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
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.
- 2 months
It’s almost like they need something mobile they can add weaponry to that could chase and hunt down security threats…
- humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
1500 camera alternative (motion detection monitoring) seems reasonable enough. The black mirror machine gun turret is needed for marketing/mission improvement.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish2 months
Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
- morto@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
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.
- masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
With a just a few just large enough neodymium magnets.
No signal, no movement, no data.
- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.
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.
- Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
How dare you shatter my dreams and then reinvigorate them with a solution
- redsand@infosec.pubEnglish2 months
A half cube metal shipping container could very easily be modified to work as a faraday cage. Or even a Trash cash.
- 2 months
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.
- arcine@jlai.luEnglish2 months
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 !
I’d love to see one captured then injected with expanding foam aka the speed camera treatment.
- Damage@feddit.itEnglish2 months
So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
- nshibj@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
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.
- nshibj@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
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.
- mriormro@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
It’s a literal copy paste of the article title. This is such a strange thing to get upset about.
- SPRUNT@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Awfully complicated for something that can be defeated by a blanket.
- brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish2 months
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.
- Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
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.
- cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
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.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish2 months
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.
- 2 months
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.
Just gotta find a way to make them work while the door is open.
So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
- Logical@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
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.
- backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish2 months
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.
- Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I understand the sentiment, although annoyingly enough Boston Dynamics kicks their “dogs” pretty often, and they’re build to adjust their balance very quickly.
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.
- arcine@jlai.luEnglish2 months
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 !
- 2 months
Shhhh fuckers gonna take that idea and run with it. AI powered deer bots.
- Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Thats the funny part. There are human operators on stand by.
The scary part is that we really will be fighting robots for water…
- TwilitSky@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Take comfort in knowing that the fight against robots for water will be short. Very, very short.
- Olhonestjim@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Nah, they are nowhere near as good as the movies, nor are the villains all that smart.
- Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Yes. They can precision kill a single person at a busy cafe remotely and have heat vision and can work nearly seamlessly in swarms. Very short indeed
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish2 months
I mean, ideally all dangerous jobs should be replaced by machines wherever possible.
- Stampy@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
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.
- teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.
- ulterno@programming.devEnglish2 months
But:
- That won’t get you millions increase in investor funding, which also lets you increase your pay-cheque
- You need to buy them from actual dog trainers, which are people and will eventually stop selling to you once you either become too evil for them or you murder them
- They are a supply chain risk as once you eventually piss off the dog trainer by 4x-ing his electricity bills and getting your AI to tell the govt. to shoot his family, he can then bypass the dogs using his smell, because they would be familiar with him.
- ulterno@programming.devEnglish5 days
dog robot maintainer
What maintainer?
There’s no maintenance. You just scrap the thingy and make a new one.
- daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Isnt there a black mirror episode with these exact same robot dogs being used to attack people.
Honestly just knock them over with a broom or something.
Saw them when they were at beta. They can get up again, even if they end up lying on their backs. It’s pretty impressive. They can even jump further than a human.
