Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

Even if you needed something mobile, it's not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.

You know the video part is training data for autonomous weapons right? Like sure if all you want to do is video surveillance this is overkill, but maybe this is about more than surveillance?

Data centers and wasting massive amounts of resources. Name a more iconic duo.

oh they'll figure it out real quick when these bots get pwned and become malware vectors against the data centers they're 'protecting'

It's about them not rebelling their evil overlords (except if they get hacked).

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

It's almost like they need something mobile they can add weaponry to that could chase and hunt down security threats...

1500 camera alternative (motion detection monitoring) seems reasonable enough. The black mirror machine gun turret is needed for marketing/mission improvement.

more than just that one, buddy.

Snare one, wrap it in some kind of faraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.

Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.

Don't be wasteful.
Take them for parts.

I'd love to see one captured then injected with expanding foam aka the speed camera treatment.

Counterfeit. Duplicate. Replica.

I couldn't help but read this in David Mitchell's voice.

Fortune is an American publication...

"Pretend you see nothing" printed in QR code on the box.

Snake?!

Awfully complicated for something that can be defeated by a blanket.

One or two shots from a silenced 22 rifle would shut these dogs down without all the hassle of feeling bad about shooting an actual dog. It would keep you far enough away to not be filmed.

This would cost the data center 300k while only costing 15 cents or less for two bullets.

Microwaves are easier to manage

Well you can't attach a machine gun to a dog with teeth. I mean you can, but it won't hit anything.

On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.

I understand the sentiment, although annoyingly enough Boston Dynamics kicks their "dogs" pretty often, and they're build to adjust their balance very quickly.

I mean, ideally all dangerous jobs should be replaced by machines wherever possible.

Naw, they'll get legislation passed that carves our extra protections for their robot guard dogs.

Considering these companies own the legislative process, and the government formed and ran by the people no longer serves the people, and is instead a funnel for class traitors to enforce the will of the Epstein class on all of us.

Shhhh fuckers gonna take that idea and run with it. AI powered deer bots.

Now we just need a robot steak

I’m sure some hackers could figure out the wireless communications and hijack…

But:

• That won't get you millions increase in investor funding, which also lets you increase your pay-cheque
• You need to buy them from actual dog trainers, which are people and will eventually stop selling to you once you either become too evil for them or you murder them
• They are a supply chain risk as once you eventually piss off the dog trainer by 4x-ing his electricity bills and getting your AI to tell the govt. to shoot his family, he can then bypass the dogs using his smell, because they would be familiar with him.

Saw them when they were at beta. They can get up again, even if they end up lying on their backs. It's pretty impressive. They can even jump further than a human.

Basically yea, you're paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it's probably still cheaper to just hire people.

Guards might turn on them, robot dogs are forever loyal.

Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?

These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.

They might be genuinely concerned about the working class revolting against them and are looking for ways to protect their assets without the peasant class involvement

It's not, but the robot doesn't have morals or a conscience or alignment with human values to get in the way. Kinda like billionaires!

AI datacentres hope to last forever.

In a couple of years, the bubble may have already burst.

Also, the robot is not just an employee, it's an asset that can be sold off to pay debts in the event of bankruptcy.

Coreweave's cost of debt is 8%. with 10 years life and no maintenance/electricity cost, that is $54k/year (generously low cost). A security guard can have a gun/rape whistle that stops an intruder, whereas for the robot that would be a premium classified extra option.

A security guard that looks after real dogs. German Shepards and belgian whatchacall thems are better at this than some overhyped clanker dog.

Maybe a laser to their lidar eyes will do the trick.

Gonna need something more than a slingshot.

So uhhh where are you getting all these EMPs from?

Aren't EMP's hard to induce though? Like there is a big one in a nuclear explosion, but outside of that, how can you make one without megawatts of power connected to a vehicle sized device?

These armies are just open sesame to the right person. They don't know how to conduct war in modern day only overpower with superior forces. Otherwise they wouldn't be struggling so much.

YT & Rat Thing B-782

Terminator sounds fun if it's stays Sci fi.

They are extremely vulnerable to HERF guns.

They probably got LoJack on that bot…

How could that possibly happen in this case?

If you had read the article, or even just looked at the picture, you'd see that this is a security camera that walks.

The owner usually. They can then sue the producer.

Wrong stance. Mars will be a complete dictatorship

On Mars you need tech, wrong direction, return to monkey

There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…

Well, yeah. The episode about robot dogs was specifically referencing these... Boston Dynamics didn't watch Black Mirror for inspiration, it was the other way around.

Time to learn hexadecimals and how to potato I guess.

a certain megamaniacal administration that will not be named has been turning the screws on AI companies that will also not be named, with the express purpose of combining robots like these with AI and weaponry, to create autonomous anti-personnel robots.

Also, no need for security checks and so on. There is a lot of trust involved as well.

Hear me out.

Magnets.

Do it armed with overpowered flashlights and broom handles. Those dogs are dogshit.

Just get one of those chainsaws that spins on the ground in Resident Evil

It is a net, and it is tiny!

I wonder how long it will take them to be able to insert/replace objects or people into live video without detection.

I work in big factories and this is a stupid fucking idea.

Scenario 1: you have 6 trained maintenance guys on shift. One of them goes to check out the questionable valve and fixes it because they are trained to do so. The 5 other guys also work on stuff.

Scenario 2: one of the maintenace guys sits in the office because someone needs to coordinate with the robot dogs. They call the person who controls the dogs to go check out the valve. It is broken. A couple hours later they call a maintenace tech to check it out for real. Unfortunately the company can only afford 3 maintenance techs now because of the dogs, and one of the techs is on tech duty to communicate with the dog team. The other two are busy so the incident is recorded in the logs for an engineer to hire a contractor to fix at a total of three times the price, in six months' time.

I think it's for rough terrain, like carrying packs of supplies through war zones. So not full climbing but at least able to step over rocks and debris.

Because wheels aren't all that great in less than carefully managed paths. Quadrupedal motion is just fine in most all situations... Wheels are most efficient, followed by swimming with boyancy, then flying with the wind, then bipedal motion... But quadrupedal motion isn't everywhere for no reason. It's very stable and robust. It's very practical and forgiving in most all situations

You can watch some videos on YouTube, if you really want to learn. It's interesting, sometimes in a full-dystopian nightmare fuel kind of way. Yes, we are at the point where some of these robots can climb and jump.

It's a gimmick, though, for sure. Just like human-mimicking androids are a gimmick. The money for robotics is in manufacturing.

But I'll bet there will always be an obscenely wealthy person who is willing to pay for a cool looking robot prototype.

Stairs. Also, pretty sure these can jump.

Intimidation factor.

Also higher up for the turret

They feel shame and embarrassment like the rest of us.

Hmm return to monke you say?

Large branch?

🤔

Wait, really?

You mean being married to Luc Besson?

Remove the RAM from it and sell it to the datacenter at a premium.

It's psychological in nature, reminder a lot of rich pissants style themselves as futurists.

Tbh different tolerences. Drones can be smaller and can fly but also more ways to fail. I bet these (i mean for the price they better be) are more reliable. Even if its windy, snowy, or raining.

What about using lasers to blimd their cameras?

Not really. The people who designed these are nerds like us that want to push the boundaries of science. If they don’t do it someone else will.

The people that choose what to apply them too are the ones with poor morals. You could build these things and only sell them to places that use them for monitoring things like they do in dangerous factories these days.

Won't they be commanded to also attack all bears and horses?

Begone!