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robots, satellites, or for that matter fighter jets or artillery can't hold ground, all these units work in support of infantry. the future belongs to what we already have: combined arms warfare
Maybe not yet. Maybe not even soon. But it will happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1_QhJ1EhQ
At some point, you're going to have legged robots out there, and that'll start cutting into human advantages in mobility over rugged terrain.
BigDog got rejected by the Marines because it was too loud. But that's not really a fundamental limitation of robotics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigDog
That's just a load-bearer. But once you have a platform that's mobile and can go most places a human can, it's gonna get armed pretty quickly.
And it won't happen all at once -- you'll have some humans, some robots. Maybe they just have load-bearers, like what DARPA was interested in BigDog doing. Maybe a robot gets put on point when a squad is patrolling.
But the cost of a human life is pretty high, so there's a pretty potent incentive to consume a robot than a human life if possible.
It's completely idiotic and against all existing reason to allow a machine to end lives on automatic. I don't think it's going to be allowed and heavily frowned upon kind of like mustard gas
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Tell that to an auto turret that shoots anyone that approaches it.
is that autoturret in the room with us?
If it was, we'd be dead
Tell that to the cardboard box crawling its way towards the auto turret because the auto turret doesn't scan it human
Tell that to the robotic dogs who have a heightened sense of robo-smell and can detect the guy hiding inside the cardboard box
Tell that to the perfume that places the dog instantly in debug mode and allows for remote access and subsequent flooding of the controller local net
Tell that to the special gasmasks the robodogs wear as a countermeasure against the debug mode perfume