NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/nypd-robocops-hulking-400-lb-robots-will-start-patrolling-new-york-city/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45477118

It's like RoboCop, except the robots are villains helping human villains villain more comprehensively.

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22 Comments

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Can't wait to see the way New Yorkers are gonna fuck with those things.

jodanlime@midwest.social · 9 pts · 1y

Put a sock on it's head

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

A man in a grimy, rain-soaked Elmo costume will be riding one through Times Square

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

It's gonna end up on the subway tracks

DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Guaranteed less than one week before one of them comes back covered in graffiti.

infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1y

These things are literally the reason that god gave us roving gangs of hooligan youths. Make us proud, hooligans.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
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perestroika@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y

If you don't want them, have your quadcopter (anonymous, DIY, not registered and factory made) drop a net or release paint on them.

If you really don't like them, see if they are properly shielded with a microwave beam. (Prediction: they aren't. Shielding something so articulated is very had.)

njm1314@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

God damn the amount of our tax dollars we just hand the cops so they can fucking pretend be superheroes, for the wealthy, is absurd.

DrFistington@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

That shit is gonna be fun to hack

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y (6 replies)

How vulnerable are they to Star Wars AT-AT tactics (aka, rope/cables)?

Not_mikey@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Not much at all actually, the thing is more an r2 d2 then an at at , idk why they put the dog robot as the thumb nail but this is what it looks like.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I can't see the pic for some reason. Are they using the same ones that "committed suicide" by "drowning" themselves in Washington DC?

Not_mikey@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y

Just looked it up, lol, yeah those ones

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Cable nets? Pit traps?

Contentedness@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The double swinging logs that smash it from each side is the way to go!

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y

Aim is critical in such devices. Por que no los Tres?!?

MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Idk if I would call 400 pounds "hulking". My motorcycle weighs more than that and I can pick it up fairly easily if I drop it on accident (which I have never done obviously).

SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

(only discreetly)

MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Only in my driveway at 1mph....

KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Getting Code 8 part II feels.

andrewth09@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Onto the tracks it goes.

BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! WE ARE THE DALEKS!