These drone wolf packs are designed for urban combat and help Chinese soldiers clear areas without risking themselves. I think I read something about a Torment Nexus in there too...

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[–] 76 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Yeah… I don’t like this.

I don’t like the Boston dynamics dog, and I definitely don’t like this one.

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  • [–] 53 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Can't wait to be chased by one of these puppies on my way to steal some insulin.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Why would you choose to need insulin? If you were more moral you wouldn’t need a crutch like that. It’s all God’s plan. If you got free medicine, what motivation would you have to work?

    (Did I miss any empty dismissals?)

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    We've now achieved Black Mirror. When do we get Terminator?

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Why is no one making any anti-drone, drones... A drone designed ro sneak up on other drones and emp, or electrocute it... Or just grab it and chain it somewhere... Shoot a nail through it's foot or something.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago

    Ukraine is doing that. They have anti-drone drones called Sting

    No emp because when it comes to drone warfare cost effectiveness is imperative. No use using a multi thousand dollar drone to down one that is a fraction of that cost.

    Russia is pretty much doing the same as well. I just watched a video this past week of a drone of theirs skewering a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone with metal rods until the recon drone caught fire and crashed. The Ukraine war is definitely the cutting edge for drone combat.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago

    Drones aren't very evasive. Most just fly a set pattern. So yes, you could easily down one with another drone, if you are able to notice it, catch up to it, hit it, and successfully down it. But to effectively do that, you need significantly more anti-drones than drones.

    More effective is probably lasers or masers from a ground station. It's a lot easier to hit a drone when your weapon moves at the speed of light. But that still means you need to notice and target it. And with a ground station, you can only counter stuff in the local area.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    Shotguns are cheap and it's easy to reload shells. So many versatile DIY loads for all uses. Oh my bad wrong sublemmy. Whoops.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think drones are effective when they are small and cheap, or when they're essentially guided bombs.

    Big stuff like this is like asking for a reminder on why humans are the apex predators on this planet.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    I did not expect to be living in the Zoids universe, but here we are.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    How many years ago was I eating cereal and watching that cartoon with the liger zero?

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  • [+] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Yay, new technology for turning humans into body parts.

    I'm sure we, as a species, will use this technology responsibly...

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I mean they look cool, but this doesn't really seem useful? I mean in police operations they might see some use or extremely short and very well supplied missions.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    There's already a well-documented method to take these out:

    SpoilerSnowspeeder with tow cable disabling an Imperial AT-AT Walker

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    This is giving fallout vibes. Hopefully Fallout wasn't a documentary.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Mmh, as an enthusiastic clanker hunter, this is slightly above my pay grade. I love smashing clankers, but I'm not equipped to take on machine gun fire or grenades...

    Maybe I just need a sniper rifle. But shooting hardly counts as smashing... It feels like a cop-out.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago
    6 comments in c/technology@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ignore the AI slop image from that article. If you follow the SCMP article Tom's Hardware is citing. You'll see a bunch of these

    Looks pretty familiar IMO.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Like real wolves, members of the robot pack have different roles.

    And

    ..., it noted that while the robots were capable of autonomous identification and targeting the system still required human confirmation before a strike.

    And

    Zhang Wei, a scientist from the Intelligent Technology Research Institute of the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, which is developing the Atlas system, told CCTV that drone swarm development aimed to achieve “coordination without communication”.

    He added that the drones “understood” each other’s intentions and collaboratively accomplished missions even in the complete absence of communication signals.

    Zhang said that highly intelligent, autonomous navigation methods resistant to jamming were needed to achieve “satellite-denied navigation” – the ability to operate when satellite signals are unavailable.

    Dude this is the whole story of

    title

    Horizon (sorry for the spoiler of the spoiler button doesn't work)

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Or played Metal Gear. WTF.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wasn't this a black mirror episode?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Slop image is straight outta Wolfenstein lmao

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