Gaza becomes Israel's testing ground for military robots
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-03/ty-article-magazine/.premium/gaza-becomes-israels-testing-ground-for-remote-control-military-robots/0000018e-03ed-def2-a98e-cfff1e640000
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y
Oh good, robot dogs. What could possibly go wrong?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
DARPA once built a robot that roams around battlefields and consumes human corpses for energy. They called it EATR.
prole@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
This sounds far too badass to be real.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
It was never literally real. But it was developed as a plausible concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
It also wasn't actually eating corpses. Supposedly.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I remember when that came out. I'm guessing they're still secretly working on it.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
It went rogue and ate all its designers. Currently locked in a vault with the door welded shut at Edwards air force base, it hibernates, waiting patiently for its next meal.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
Ted Faro works at DARPA?
Darkard@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
Everyone thought it would be China or Russia doing this first, turns out it's the west that starts using AI robots for Genocide.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
Turkish autonomous killer drones were, I think, used in Lybia recently? Not sure.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Are we talking about big drones like Bayraktars which have an operator or new small scale autonomous ones? I've not heard about this story yet
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
I meant autonomous small swarming ones.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Can you link?
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
No, I meant vague memory.
Mojo@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
Oh, I remember this Black Mirror episode
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y
At the rate we're going Israel's gonna be pressing their fantasies of controlling everything between the Nile and the Euphrates by the end of the summer!
corymbia@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 2y
“I have become the Pharoah, the destroyer of worlds. “
Agent641@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Cool and normal.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
We're going to need Solid Snake.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
The same robots designed by Boston Dynamics?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
No! Boston dynamics would never make things used to express hatred towards Palestinians? This year? Or Mexicans and Chinese migrants at the border? Next year?
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Our robots feel no hatred. For an additional $10m per order we’ll include our software that emulates it though.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
With enamel paint job included?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Hold on, someone's at the door. It's a cute dog robot! It wants me to take a little piece of paper...it's a speeding ticket. Oh thank you officer! Oh I have to pay now or you will open fire as it customary for all police activities? I understand. The state of Washington allows you to chase me now if I don't? I understand.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
He screamed. He screamed