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Thread: More robots o' doom
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2012-11-01, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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More robots o' doom
As seen on Discovery . I want one!
Coming soon to a minibar near you!
Respectfully,
Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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2012-11-01, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-01, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-01, 07:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-01, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Mr. Gutsy"
Anyways, the DoD has had these for awhile, they're called UGVs. I'm not surprised that a homemade version has been made. I am surprised though that a homemade one was made before a public version happened though.
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2012-11-02, 09:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-02, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, but are they any use against zombies? Or against emus, for that matter? Methinks the pellets will just pass through without harm.
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Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
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2012-11-02, 10:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: More robots o' doom
I for one will not be impressed until they make Bender!
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2012-11-03, 05:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'd prefer my very own Cameron, but until then, that's pretty cool.
And I was amused by the keywords tags on that article:
SpoilerTags: Explosions, Guns, Home Security, Killer Robots, Latest Cool Gadgets
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2012-11-03, 06:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-04, 09:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ain't that a cute little gun?
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2012-11-04, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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You could easily equip it with an actual rifle, but then police will be on your doorstep and taking it and you into custody for building a booby trap that kills everything on sight.
We are not standing on the shoulders of giants, but on very tall tower of other dwarves.
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2012-11-04, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar by CoffeeIncluded
Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”
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2012-11-04, 01:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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I don't think a robot qualifies as a 'booby trap' on the same level as, say, a hand grenade taped to the door would be.
In any case, I would expect the police, if faced with guard robots, would solve the problem by deploying robots of their own. The armed forces use UGVs for finding IEDs. Why should a squishie meatbag be the first person through the door of a house when a tinnie can do just as well?
So... we have guard robots defending against police robots while, presumably, the flesh-and-blood people are somewhere else entirely. *Chuckles*
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Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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2012-11-04, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-04, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-05, 08:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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The intelligence required to roll through a door and shoot anything moving is significantly below human intelligence. I suspect tinnies will not be agitating for wages and rights until we've got much closer to solving the strong AI problem. It's not like our cars go on strike or robot drones demand a day off over Tahiti or what not.
If it should ever happen that a human-level intelligence AI existed that had a significant military capability, I suspect it'll be *us* demanding the rights from *them*.
Respectfully,
Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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2012-11-06, 10:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just thought I would insert the obligatory link of the eventual end of the robot protection route
SpoilerLast edited by Traab; 2012-11-06 at 10:22 PM.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-11-07, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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I remind you that one of our erstwhile members on the hurricane thread had to chase away thieves with a hatchet. He may still be living a brutal lord-of-the-flies existence in NJ. I should think one of these babies would be just what the doctor ordered to solve that particular problem. I'd certainly rather fight with ingenuity than with my own muscle power!
Of course, having the robot doing the fighting means I don't get any XP for the thieves ....
Respectfully,
Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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2012-11-07, 10:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-07, 11:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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I would not want that robot working on construction. Those things are dead clumsy and have gun arms. That makes it rather hard to use a hammer. I suppose they could be altered into miniguns that shoot nails. "Ok Ed! Ive got the drywall up, tack it down!" "COMPLYING!"
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."