RedScud
RedScud t1_isxexic wrote
Reply to comment by huzernayme in The killer ground drone revolution is here. The Netherlands has deployed four armed ground robots or unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), making it the first NATO country to do so. The robots are Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry Systems (THeMIS) UGVs built by the Estonian defense company Milrem Robotics. by mossadnik
It's fine, I used the term robot too widely
RedScud t1_isx5mel wrote
Reply to comment by huzernayme in The killer ground drone revolution is here. The Netherlands has deployed four armed ground robots or unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), making it the first NATO country to do so. The robots are Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry Systems (THeMIS) UGVs built by the Estonian defense company Milrem Robotics. by mossadnik
I was quite specifically answering the whole. "Boston dynamics" robot running you over like you can't shoot full metal jackets into it and completely obliterate their electronic insides from a distance. The 4 legged thing from black mirror is even smaller in size so even less armor. That's all, not saying autonomous fighting vehicles as a whole are impossible, just not Terminator now
RedScud t1_iswo4ik wrote
Reply to comment by huzernayme in The killer ground drone revolution is here. The Netherlands has deployed four armed ground robots or unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), making it the first NATO country to do so. The robots are Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry Systems (THeMIS) UGVs built by the Estonian defense company Milrem Robotics. by mossadnik
Hold on, who said anything about autonomous tanks? This thread started with the idea that the Boston dynamic type robot would just charge you down easily. And then the metal head dog. I'm saying those formats are not viable, not for now anyway.
RedScud t1_isvio5h wrote
Reply to comment by squirtloaf in The killer ground drone revolution is here. The Netherlands has deployed four armed ground robots or unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), making it the first NATO country to do so. The robots are Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry Systems (THeMIS) UGVs built by the Estonian defense company Milrem Robotics. by mossadnik
Robots will probably never be a threat in that sense... They have extremely delicate components and electronics, and no practical way to make them bulletproof (armor thick enough would be extremely heavy) so military rifles would shred the Boston dynamics one and the metal head even more
RedScud t1_iycainq wrote
Reply to comment by ReasonablyBadass in Astronomers Worldwide Troubled by New 'Cell Phone Towers in Space' by IslandChillin
This is not an obvious solution nor a practical one.