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Ukraine’s Ground Robot Tore Through Russian Troops—So It’s Now Armed With a Grenade Launcher (united24media.com)
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Ukraine is set to field its first officially codified domestically built grenade launcher armed ground robot, after the Ministry of Defense approved the Droid NW 40 robotic combat system for service with the country’s Defense Forces, developer DevDroid said on December 23.

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[–] 16 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I believe this is only for fully autonomous robots. These are human controlled, more like an rc car with an upgrade.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    But there are aerial drones currently in use that have AI targeting.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Actually autonomous? Or guided by computer vision? Technically CV is AI but not what concerns most people.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ukraine has autonomous drones as autonomous as "there must be a tank around these parts, go destroy it!" and it executes.

    Now they even recognize the type of tanks, their armor, so that they target its known weak point, and if it can't, it targets the turret to make it at least unusable.

    They probably have something similar as a submarine drone they used to sink the Russian submarine (it was most likely too far and underwater for remote control, and the drones had to pick the right target, or had a precise map and not lose positioning).

    So they're probably close to make these slaughterbots also autonomous to some degree.

    I never imagined humanoid shapes to be the perfect Terminators except for infiltration anyway...

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