Well, yeah. That was the goal of creating all of these.
Hell, Boston Dynamics was originally funded heavily by DARPA. BigDog, AlphaDog, LittleDog, and LS3 were all funded by DARPA and designed for military use.
This is old anyway. They were strapping guns to the ghost robotics dogs as far back as 2021. https://www.popsci.com/technology/ghost-robotics-robot-dog-gun-lethal/
I mean, yeah. I Did A Thing did a video on exactly this a year or so back. His setup was a complete shitshow as they had to change robo-dogs at the last second (because Michael Reeves and OfflineTV didn’t want to get sued by Boston Dynamics) but the principle was sound.
But also? You are never going to replace a well trained soldier with this. Even with a proper gimbal mount, you aren’t doing rapid precise shots.
But also… you don’t need to. The advantage to this is to have a relatively low cost platform to handle suppressive fire or fire an anti-tank shot or whatever. Something where you would otherwise be risking a human being.
Metalhed - Black Mirror
Anyone who’s played The Division knows the Black Tusks did this years ago
Daisy 🥰
We’re now a step closer to making dogs with BBs in their mouths and when they bark they shoot BBs at you.
Imagine a mobile gun controlled by ChatGPT 3.5. 😐
I hear you can distract it by throwing some batteries at it.
Who’s a good boy?
This was inevitable. I was imagining Ukrainians would love to have a tool like this to remotely walk up and clear trenches.
Atlas’s brothers are in the making. The are searching for a proper name … any suggestions?
Absolutely fantastic stuff here.
If I were a dog, or the creator of a dog, I would say:
This beast is such an insult!
Totally stiff in the spine, stamping worse than a cow on dope, and that stiff body must stay horizontally at all times.
What a gross misconstruction.
