So Boston Dynamics is selling these to China or they made their own?
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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R&D costs are zero when you just steal someone else's prints/software.
They're making their own and selling them for about 2% of the cost of the Boston Dynamics version: This LiDAR-equipped 30-pound robot dog can be yours for $1,600 . How much of the technology was actually developed independently, I have no idea.
And according to the promotional video, it will pleasure you with a special dance.
1,600… wow
Yes, you can have your own robot attack dog for about the same price as a high-end gaming PC. Some assembly possibly required, and you'll have to write your own attack software based on a manual poorly translated from Chinese (if you're lucky), but what do you expect at that price point? 🤨
People worried about AI being used in warfare are at least 10 years too late
Oh, we're already at that Black Mirror episode?
I mean, we all knew this was the most likely one, but I was kind of hoping for the sexbots first.
Man I would love to see what security measures they put in place for these things. That better be amazing security or else it's going to be some real bad news bears.
It's 100% sure to shoot your ass, if that's what you meant
Can it also roll over a student in Tienanmen Square?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The two-minute video made during the China-Cambodia “Golden Dragon 2024” exercise also shows the robot dog walking, hopping, lying down and moving backwards under the control of a remote operator.
In 2020, the US Air Force demonstrated how it used robotic dogs as one link in its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), which uses artificial intelligence and rapid data analytics to detect and counter threats to US military assets.
And since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, drones have become commonplace on the battlefield, on the land, sea and air, with cheap remotely controlled vehicles able to knock out sophisticated military machines like tanks and even warships.
The lethal abilities of drones seen on the Ukraine battlefields has shown them to be great equalizers, enabling military forces with small defense budgets to compete with substantially better armed and funded enemies.
According to the state-run Global Times, the presence of the robotic dogs at exercises with foreign militaries indicates an advanced stage of development.
“Usually, a new equipment will not be brought into a joint exercise with another country, so the robot dogs must have reached a certain level of technical maturity,” Global Times quoted an unnamed expert as saying.
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