Are they waterproof?
Aim for the battery!
You can also shine high power lasers in their eyes. Without some mechanism to quickly block sudden brightness (tech which exists as I understand) it will burn out the camera. Battery removal is the last resort shut down procedure so the battery has to be somewhat exposed in case of emergencies. Their joints are also vulnerable, and could be gummed up.
Signal jamming, drone hacking, there’s so much potential. They scare people, but they are pretty vulnerable.
There’s nothing about a drone with a gun mounted to it that doesn’t scream “free gun”
if you need to get close hammers or other blunt weapons would be very effective on fragile joints and battery compartments. nice way to disable them after you fry the optics
That’s true, it would be impossible to fix.
It would cost an arm or a leg to replace it
…Dad?
Possibly!
Notice that no engineer hangs around when these robots are walking.
I like your optimism. Clean water, heh.
Welcome to Scotland.
Wa’a, pur’e wa’a. Aneteme I wa’t it, dey or night, free o char’ge, and it tastes…of fuck all. Cheer’s
Is this racism?
It’s OK when I do it, I also speak with a heavy nordic accent
The very first “real” water war is going to break out in Central Asia within the next few years. Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan are ALL having major water scarcity issues, they all rely on water intensive crops and industries to fuel their economies, they’re all trying to ramp up production despite being on the brink, they’ve all had decades of mismanagement, and a lot of their water sources are shared. In other words, these countries are so authoritarian, so corrupt, and their water resources are so horribly mismanaged that things are actually looking really bleak over there. If I was a betting man I would bet that the next major war is going to start there.
This is why I love @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org’s work.
MATA acquired Boston Dynamics in 2142
Orwell was mostly right:
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
He only missed that it would be a robotic foot not a boot.
Face crushing is so much work - just have the robots do it
- some billionaire
