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Also, New York dodged a bullet on that, huh?
Oct 19, 2023 5:27 PM
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Also, New York dodged a bullet on that, huh?
vincentlaurila
Goat is easier to sacrifice, we eat them unlike dogs
EdinCOS
Greatest Of All Time (GOAT) robots?
khora
I prefer an RC robot dog over a police with a gun in most situations.
mrsdowneyjr
Goat when it's in the desert - racism?
tinydog
That's not a goat. It's a robotic badger!
LovelyMover
unless those dogs are armed someones gonna work out how to steal them, real quick.
Djkb6718
Please no
bdennis3222000
Hmmm wonder what could go wrong with arming semi-autonomous robot’s with weapons ?
dingybasement350
So how long until they have an ED-209?
ShenanigansForHireExperiencedBeerTasterAndCraicFacilitator
RoboCapra.
ProffesorGoogle
Military one looks completely different, probably just called a goat model
Woogyface
as we al know renaming things work just fine. we all love surprise mechanics now
HollerinAtTheVoid
I'm curious as to how and if crayons are involved
drousnavat
Rebranding is the key to abusing media
ButtersTheCat
"robot dog" to "killer robot goat" is one helluva rebrand.
LewdSomnambulist
It's to blend in better in the middle east
Eniff
Are we sure that the military ones are by Boston dynamics? It might be a trademark thing either way.
WwwhyYouNoLikeMe
sending robo kids into battle
eugene51
It's the robotic Rabbit of Caerbannog!
YouTubeRed
Imalwaysready
I don't think people realize how rapidly a lot of this technology will become real, ubiquitous, and be used against them--AND how far behind the law is in keeping up with rapid technological developments and rules around how it can, and CANNOT, be used by government entities. I really don't.
SirAroun
BTW those are not the same robot; first one is a knock off as Boston Dynamics has a policy against the weaponizing of its robots.
TinaTheWonderBra
“They don’t like robotic killer dogs” “I think the problem might be robotic killer things in general?” “Naaah, let’s rebrand the killer ones as goats. That’ll make them happy.”
BenderBenderBender
I ain’t afraid of no goat.
ThailandExpress
GadenKerensky
It's the exact same type of robot dog, and I don't foresee Russia employing these much.
chammey
> they dressed it like a jihadist
drduffer
If I’d been the US DoD I would have called them mules. The US Army has a long, long history of using mules. In fact, the Mule is the West Point mascot. “Who the hell thought up goat? Some Navy puke?” (Apologies to the US Navy, they are my favorite US service branch.)
fr0stbyte124
Wait then what will you call the robots that smuggle drugs across the border?
RookDefence
US Military already tried a robotic mule though, which was much bigger: https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/legged-squad-support-system
FetaForMoses
It’s clearly a fawn. Everybody chill out.
NinetiesBoomer
"Release the hounds!"
MouseDenton
Kinda makes sense to me, actually. The military has been looking at this tech primarily as pack "animals", which dogs typically aren't. But of course the Marines strapped a LAW to it.
Shaows
They're not used to getting new stuff, it will take them time to adjust.
StatmanIbrahimovic
They call them goats because you'll find them all over the Middle East and central Asia..
flavivsaetivs
I feel like mules would be cheaper and more efficient...
Apletto
Harder (so far) to remote control though.
UtahGimm3Tw0
We took a mule packing and leading course as part of our cold weather survival school when I was in the Marines. All our mules were named after characters from Lonesome Dove. Strong and smart
Shaows
Matthew Dooley has never seen a goat before
Apletto
I've never seen a goat with a built in rocket launcher.
InfocalypseRising
I’ve never seen a Matt Dooley with a built in goat
Apletto
I think this is him:
EccentricNut
moxythree
This episode, man.
delly
It cut deep
TheDildoOfConsequences
Damn, that comment went for the throat. I feel upset now, can somebody get me a teddy bear?
fishmaceins
The relentlessness of the 'dog' was unnerving...
OejaNegra
Yeah, that's what I loved the most about that episode. It reminded me of Terminator in that regard: he's not going to stop, no matter what.
Pankarica
What show?
Kitehammer
Pretty sure this is Black Mirror
Tumescentpie
Show? This is real life. /s
EccentricNut
Black Mirror, Series 4, Episode 5 "Metalhead"
InfocalypseRising
Honestly I didn’t love this one. It wasn’t bad but it just felt like a fairly typical sci fi story.
ilejk
It was fairly stereotypical and bland, but it was to reinforce the very real fears about technology that currently exists, whether or not we've abused the concept in scifi otherwise. Spread the concept to less studied scifi viewers and all.
Caxafvujq
Is this Black Mirror?
EccentricNut
yes, Series 4, Episode 5 "Metalhead"
Filanwizard
I like to say these days that it’s not a Skynet in fear but horizon zero dawn. The Faro bots situation is very realistic in that they were not true sapient AI that decided “kill all humans” but more a very advanced machine learning combat system that had a bug and effectively lost its IFF table. Now everything not their swarm was enemy so they followed the program.
Filanwizard
Combine that with hubris and greed meaning no remote kill switch for the killbots which were designed to be self sustaining and well bad things.
moxythree
I don’t disagree, but that was where the fear was for me. An unrelentless killing machine that just keeps coming. You can tell me that story 100 times and it’ll still freak me out. I blame that final scene in Terminator with it being crushed for that.
TheDildoOfConsequences
You might like a movie called "Hardware". By the way it's a lot less grim than the episode in this post.
charliethewizard
Goats are climbers, dogs are runners. Where do you need to blow up your enemy from?
3Davideo
"Within the range of our weapons but outside the range of theirs."
HamSlamwich
An ivory tower.
OnyxTurret
Dogs are lovable, goats are expendable. (Actually, goats pretty adorable too)
SarcasticComment
a swamp. let slip the frogs of war!
shyasen
Whatever farm animal of war, Lana!
Shaows
Underneath
InfocalypseRising
Robot moles, away!
disodiumbenzoate
Robot ground hogs are still in alpha testing but don’t you worry we’ll have underground murder bots soon enough
charliethewizard
That might be @thetremorssaga's department. But I don't think we need militarized Graboids.
TheTremorsSaga
colopctech
we have those, they are called landmines
Shaows
Now in Roomba flavor.
ChloeRed
I'll wait for the Swedish version, the self guiding Surströmming
Shaows
That's a violation of the Geneva Protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol