Power pack is still a serious limitation. Once that is solved and a lack of the 3 rules of Robotics Terminators here we come. Automated tanks are already here. Not quite the Ogre-Bolo's of SciFi but dangerous enough.
Yep, gettin' a bit scary. Of course these are just the capabilities that they are willing to show us plebes. It won't be too long until they will be able to mass produce these things to the point where they will cost about as much as a small car. Then we are going to see some shit happen.
Armor will have to be non-magnetic, resistant to electrostatic discharge, thermally ablative, puncture proof, water proof, resistant to acidic or alkaline chemicals. Plus an extraordinary high degree of hardness. Yet these characteristics are incompatible in any material of which I know. Therefore, armor will consist of multiple layers of different materials. Software will require shielding to concussive forces.
Yet, perhaps the simplest techniques could defeat the machine. I'd like to see it swim out of quicksand.
We're really not that far from Skynet/Terminator. The only major obstacle left is the power supply. Just like cars, the battery pack these things run on is heavy, bulky, doesn't last long and takes time to recharge. When/if that problem is solved we'll be in truly deep shit.
Let me know when they’ve perfected the portative bipedal exo-frames so popular in sci-fi, the set-up that humans step into and use as transportation and load carrying platforms where weapons or tools will sap a person’s strength way too fast. Not that I need one for weapons bearing, I’m just a crippled old fart and it near kills me to walk next door using my walker or wheelchair. Of course, such a transport device needs motive power, the rare-earth dry cell battery packs in existence now may barbecue your arse if you don’t also have a high pressure fire extinguisher as an integral part, to give you time to bail out of your ‘ship’. Then, provided your ex-transporter hasn’t created a raging bushfire, you need a lift back to your hunting/fishing camp.
Impressive. Considering how tech has almost always been perverted to screw most of us over, it is quite concerning as well. I wonder how deeply DARPA is involved in the development shown there?
What is needed to make these more effective in a battle is more imagination. No reason to make them look human. And shrink them in size and complexity so that you could produce a million or 20 million easily and cheaply. Use them in a "sleep" mode (to preserve power) and only activate when they are needed to attack/defend. I think the technology is available right now to create a "robot/drone" army that could conquer almost anything. Combine this with AI and indeed it is all over for humans.
1) Impressive parlor tricks. Nothing more, nor less. 2) Proof of the pudding: Have one run through a crowded playground filled with the unattended playing children of the engineers involved in building them. 3) Turn one loose on a crowded beach, and in NYFC pedestrian traffic, including crosswalks. 4) Show me what they do when someone builds a "bridge" out of papier-mâché over a water pit 8' deep. 5) Show what happens when someone leaves a block of solid concrete for that lifting/shelving robot.
These things are the T-100's retarded fetal alcohol cousins. That may change by the time anyone reading this has been dead for 50 years.
Power pack is still a serious limitation. Once that is solved and a lack of the 3 rules of Robotics Terminators here we come. Automated tanks are already here. Not quite the Ogre-Bolo's of SciFi but dangerous enough.
ReplyDeleteYep, gettin' a bit scary.
ReplyDeleteOf course these are just the capabilities that they are willing to show us plebes.
It won't be too long until they will be able to mass produce these things to the point where they will cost about as much as a small car.
Then we are going to see some shit happen.
Armor will have to be non-magnetic, resistant to electrostatic discharge, thermally ablative, puncture proof, water proof, resistant to acidic or alkaline chemicals. Plus an extraordinary high degree of hardness.
ReplyDeleteYet these characteristics are incompatible in any material of which I know.
Therefore, armor will consist of multiple layers of different materials.
Software will require shielding to concussive forces.
Yet, perhaps the simplest techniques could defeat the machine. I'd like to see it swim out of quicksand.
Could it be the weakest point will be the knees?
DeleteFuture police for the regime.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to The Uncanny Valley, citizen!
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Just because you can doesn't mean you should
ReplyDelete.50's. LAP rounds and IED's. Pits. Crush traps. Wire. Tannerite dogs. Dozers.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah they are going to be nasty but don't you worry Dawg we got this.
And good old Molotov cocktails will still be effective, I’ll bet.
DeleteImpressive, and a bit scary.
ReplyDeleteNice motion capture cgi!!
ReplyDeleteWe're really not that far from Skynet/Terminator. The only major obstacle left is the power supply. Just like cars, the battery pack these things run on is heavy, bulky, doesn't last long and takes time to recharge. When/if that problem is solved we'll be in truly deep shit.
ReplyDeleteNope.
ReplyDeleteWe aren't.
Let me know when they’ve perfected the portative bipedal exo-frames so popular in sci-fi, the set-up that humans step into and use as transportation and load carrying platforms where weapons or tools will sap a person’s strength way too fast. Not that I need one for weapons bearing, I’m just a crippled old fart and it near kills me to walk next door using my walker or wheelchair.
ReplyDeleteOf course, such a transport device needs motive power, the rare-earth dry cell battery packs in existence now may barbecue your arse if you don’t also have a high pressure fire extinguisher as an integral part, to give you time to bail out of your ‘ship’. Then, provided your ex-transporter hasn’t created a raging bushfire, you need a lift back to your hunting/fishing camp.
Impressive. Considering how tech has almost always been perverted to screw most of us over, it is quite concerning as well. I wonder how deeply DARPA is involved in the development shown there?
ReplyDeleteTerminators here we come....
ReplyDeleteI was hoping that this was going to be spliced into the end of the video.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/dKjCWfuvYxQ?si=e43WeLF_skYa_nUJ
Given the war on farmers that is starting to spread (Netherlands, Sri Lanka), they won't need these to wipe out humanity.
ReplyDeleteLet us now begin the destruction of the lifeform known as Man.....Imperious Leader.
ReplyDeleteRule .308 and .50 BMG
ReplyDeleteThe children of the $15/hr minimum wage.
ReplyDeleteRobot: to prove how much of a nerd this retired software engineer is, all I can think of is "that's a lot of code". 🤔😇😂
ReplyDeleteQuestion is ...
ReplyDeleteIf that's what we're being shown , how much further along is the technology?
So many questions..... Are they heavy? Thinking about how Jehovah starts with an I.....
ReplyDeleteOver complication and unnecessary as inexpensive drone warfare in Ukraine has demonstrated on ground troops.
ReplyDeleteSteve S6
What is needed to make these more effective in a battle is more imagination. No reason to make them look human. And shrink them in size and complexity so that you could produce a million or 20 million easily and cheaply. Use them in a "sleep" mode (to preserve power) and only activate when they are needed to attack/defend. I think the technology is available right now to create a "robot/drone" army that could conquer almost anything. Combine this with AI and indeed it is all over for humans.
ReplyDelete1) Impressive parlor tricks. Nothing more, nor less.
ReplyDelete2) Proof of the pudding: Have one run through a crowded playground filled with the unattended playing children of the engineers involved in building them.
3) Turn one loose on a crowded beach, and in NYFC pedestrian traffic, including crosswalks.
4) Show me what they do when someone builds a "bridge" out of papier-mâché over a water pit 8' deep.
5) Show what happens when someone leaves a block of solid concrete for that lifting/shelving robot.
These things are the T-100's retarded fetal alcohol cousins. That may change by the time anyone reading this has been dead for 50 years.
Until then, these are essentially vaporware.
The old three ball bolo might hold one down a while.
ReplyDeleteruns like a girl
ReplyDeleteAnd that, right there, is why I've bandoleers full of M2AP rounds.
ReplyDeleteSure am glad I never got rid of armor piercing .308 and .30-06 ammo.
ReplyDeletePre-programmed display. Golf clap. No more or less similar than the robots that build autos, etc, etc, etc
ReplyDeleteI see those things and the impulse to go all Sarah Connor on them is almost overwhelming. Same for the robo-dogs: they are not cute.
ReplyDeleteWhat gender should we call it?
ReplyDelete6 YEAR OLD KID COULD PROBABLY TAKE THE BASTARD OUT WITH A CELL PHONE
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