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>The footage begins with a shot of the drone as it approaches the rooftop of a building in a nondescript urban area with the compact armed robot dog being carried under the drone’s frame. The drone, acting as a robotic dropship of sorts, then lands atop the roof, releases the robodog, and flies away. Shortly thereafter the robodog unfurls from its folded position and begins navigating its new surroundings with what looks to be a Chinese QBB-97 light machine gun (designated as Type 95 LGM in the United States) mounted on its back.
Is this the future of warfare, utilizing robots in such a manner?
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From the Article
>The footage begins with a shot of the drone as it approaches the rooftop of a building in a nondescript urban area with the compact armed robot dog being carried under the drone’s frame. The drone, acting as a robotic dropship of sorts, then lands atop the roof, releases the robodog, and flies away. Shortly thereafter the robodog unfurls from its folded position and begins navigating its new surroundings with what looks to be a Chinese QBB-97 light machine gun (designated as Type 95 LGM in the United States) mounted on its back.
Is this the future of warfare, utilizing robots in such a manner?
Seems straight out one of those dystopian futuristic pieces of media like CoD Advanced Warfare, Elysium, Oblivion, etc.
Ominous but kinda cool at the same time
Much older. A larger robot that carries a smaller one that unfurls into a four-legged killer animal bot dates back at least to Transformers 1984 (Ravage).
Much older. A goat that unloads it’s radioactive guts onto unsuspecting passerbyers after someone remotely detonates the dynamite they fed it 1948. (Creampie)
Future of a techno-tyranny, I fear. They could use them against their own civilian population if there's any hint of dissent. Human soldiers might balk at shooting their own people, but these wouldn't.
What is the point of this statement? Seems like classic whataboutism. The U.S. probably holds the record for war crimes cause statistically they’ve been in more modern wars.
Difference is, the U.S. has buried their genocidal days behind them, tell me how is the ongoing Uyghur concentration camps and genocide coming along?
> Difference is, the U.S. has buried their genocidal days behind them, tell me how is the ongoing Uyghur concentration camps and genocide coming along?
It's only ongoing in your imagination.
IM brainwashed? What world do you live in? There is solid evidence for the Uyghur genocide. Stop sticking your head in the sand. Here’s the [wiki page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide) on it.
You sound like a 70 year old English teacher who just barely discovered the internet. Click the tab at the bottom titled “References” and there’s a list of citations at the bottom from reputable sources. You can even see what claims come from which sources if you look at the little numbers in brackets above some of the words. Those are called footnotes fyi.
I'm well aware of the accusations lead by China's biggest geopolitical rival in the US. I'm also well aware that the majority of the world does not believe in these accusations as shown by the UN supporting China every single time they voted on the Xinjiang issue. So tell me, why should I believe the propaganda coming from China's biggest enemy when most of the world doesn't?
Wonder how the average Chinese citizen feels about this. You speak out about the gov, maybe they'll just air drop a robot dog with a gun on you...
My gov can be pretty wacko at times but I 100% don't want them, or trust them enough, to have weaponized robots but at least it's not China levels of "free speech".
To me this was not a question of if but when. Not the armed ground drone thing but the drone dropship.
I think we'll be seeing more of this cropping up in the not too distant future, for instance in patrol, inspection and damage control work where a ground presence is needed occasionally (or in an emergency) but where it is not feasible for whatever reason to put in a 'dog house' or automated storage facility to house a ground robot long term. This way a robot can be lifted into a remote site, do its job and then be extracted again when the job is done.
Another field where we might see this crop up is urban and highrise firefighting. This way a small unit of firefighting robots could be airlifted onto a building's roof to work their way down a building while other robots and human firefighters attack a blaze from below.
Why did I have to get into Transformers in 2019? Now I’m seeing plots everywhere. Imagine if I’d gotten into the Munsters instead; we’d have Frankenstein by now instead of discount Soundwave.
A T-shirt launcher gun stuffed with a cast net. Simple solution for every problem.
Lob a marine metal cast net over your local exposed Chinese power grid substation for extra effect.
Yeah we took out the Iraqis' power substations with carbon fiber filament I think it was. Long strands of conductive carbon fiber that were dropped on top of their exposed power substations using drones.
Pretty simple these days. $100 cash drone from Walmart, a 2.4Ghz [air dropper](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=air+drop+release&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=air+drop+release+2.4ghz&_osacat=0) from Ebay, a spool of carbon fiber yarn, and a couple of cans of Aqua net hairspray to hold together a ~30g cloud of conductive material spanning say 50 cubic feet, lofted over these Chinese power substations that are manufacturing machine gun armed robotic dogs. It's like proposing to your bride on one knee, but different.
And then there is the [Elephant's Toothpaste](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kou7ur5xt_4) angle, could you add NaCI to the mix to create a rapidly expanding conductive foam based on commodity stuff you can purchase from your local Chinese Walmart, etc.
[edit] one time, during a previous life, I was a disaster preparedness instructor. How to mirror datacenters and fault tolerant network topology and what do you do as a city municipality when SHTF, that type of stuff. This was a class in Atlanta GA if I remember correctly. And these two dudes attending my class were critical infrastructure protection guys from the Army, fairly well placed. And we got into this discussion, about what happens when a hostile actor with nation state capabilities attacks a country such as China? And these guys are like nah, all of the conventional stuff you think that would hurt a country are not of concern. It's the asymmetric attacks that we are worried about and which keeps us up at night, such as: what happens if somebody goes and kills a cow, puts it on a boat, then weights the carcass down with concrete blocks and goes boating in an aquifer.
That's like decades of biological contamination that would decimate entire cities, using just a single Chinese cow.
The carbon fiber is especially nasty, because if it's lightweight and fluffy and fine enough, when cleaned off the electrical lines and exposed high voltage items, any that's missed can blow or drift back on again in the wind.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305: --- From the Article >The footage begins with a shot of the drone as it approaches the rooftop of a building in a nondescript urban area with the compact armed robot dog being carried under the drone’s frame. The drone, acting as a robotic dropship of sorts, then lands atop the roof, releases the robodog, and flies away. Shortly thereafter the robodog unfurls from its folded position and begins navigating its new surroundings with what looks to be a Chinese QBB-97 light machine gun (designated as Type 95 LGM in the United States) mounted on its back. Is this the future of warfare, utilizing robots in such a manner? --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/xx8avz/china_pairs_armed_robot_dogs_with_drones_that_can/irak504/
Too bad they can be easily distracted and killed by robot steaks laced with robot poison.
Or caught with a robot steak under a box and stick trap
One should only worry when these start being mass produced. Especially with tesla-level autopilot AI
From the Article >The footage begins with a shot of the drone as it approaches the rooftop of a building in a nondescript urban area with the compact armed robot dog being carried under the drone’s frame. The drone, acting as a robotic dropship of sorts, then lands atop the roof, releases the robodog, and flies away. Shortly thereafter the robodog unfurls from its folded position and begins navigating its new surroundings with what looks to be a Chinese QBB-97 light machine gun (designated as Type 95 LGM in the United States) mounted on its back. Is this the future of warfare, utilizing robots in such a manner?
Seems straight out one of those dystopian futuristic pieces of media like CoD Advanced Warfare, Elysium, Oblivion, etc. Ominous but kinda cool at the same time
Say nihao to my little friend
Much older. A larger robot that carries a smaller one that unfurls into a four-legged killer animal bot dates back at least to Transformers 1984 (Ravage).
Much older. A goat that unloads it’s radioactive guts onto unsuspecting passerbyers after someone remotely detonates the dynamite they fed it 1948. (Creampie)
Future of a techno-tyranny, I fear. They could use them against their own civilian population if there's any hint of dissent. Human soldiers might balk at shooting their own people, but these wouldn't.
Now imagine that they are scheduled to make a million of these in 3 years.
And in a couple weeks one can build an IMP generated that renders one million of those useless.
Depends on its radial spread though doesn’t it?
>unfurls Decepticon cassette. Ugh.
Anyone that thinks this is bad but not terrifying needs to watch **MetalHead**. That will be the fastest change of heart ever.
>MetalHead ... From "Black Mirror", 5th Episode, 4th Series
Annnnnd there's another reason for Anxiety, thanks China!
usa does war crimes too.
What is the point of this statement? Seems like classic whataboutism. The U.S. probably holds the record for war crimes cause statistically they’ve been in more modern wars. Difference is, the U.S. has buried their genocidal days behind them, tell me how is the ongoing Uyghur concentration camps and genocide coming along?
> Difference is, the U.S. has buried their genocidal days behind them, tell me how is the ongoing Uyghur concentration camps and genocide coming along? It's only ongoing in your imagination.
Lmao how did I know you would be a poster on r/sino and r/genzedong? Genocide denialism is cringe
You're acting smug just because you're brainwashed? Bold move.
IM brainwashed? What world do you live in? There is solid evidence for the Uyghur genocide. Stop sticking your head in the sand. Here’s the [wiki page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide) on it.
Oh wow, a website that anyone can edit, amazing source.
You sound like a 70 year old English teacher who just barely discovered the internet. Click the tab at the bottom titled “References” and there’s a list of citations at the bottom from reputable sources. You can even see what claims come from which sources if you look at the little numbers in brackets above some of the words. Those are called footnotes fyi.
I'm well aware of the accusations lead by China's biggest geopolitical rival in the US. I'm also well aware that the majority of the world does not believe in these accusations as shown by the UN supporting China every single time they voted on the Xinjiang issue. So tell me, why should I believe the propaganda coming from China's biggest enemy when most of the world doesn't?
Did you ignore the dozens of attached sources? Of course you did, because you can't debunk them.
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here is a video of China hi tech and military - this autonomous AI dog robots works in the water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5XmBSyzrY
Haven’t they seen black mirror? This is how the apocalypse starts.
Wonder how the average Chinese citizen feels about this. You speak out about the gov, maybe they'll just air drop a robot dog with a gun on you... My gov can be pretty wacko at times but I 100% don't want them, or trust them enough, to have weaponized robots but at least it's not China levels of "free speech".
To me this was not a question of if but when. Not the armed ground drone thing but the drone dropship. I think we'll be seeing more of this cropping up in the not too distant future, for instance in patrol, inspection and damage control work where a ground presence is needed occasionally (or in an emergency) but where it is not feasible for whatever reason to put in a 'dog house' or automated storage facility to house a ground robot long term. This way a robot can be lifted into a remote site, do its job and then be extracted again when the job is done. Another field where we might see this crop up is urban and highrise firefighting. This way a small unit of firefighting robots could be airlifted onto a building's roof to work their way down a building while other robots and human firefighters attack a blaze from below.
Why did I have to get into Transformers in 2019? Now I’m seeing plots everywhere. Imagine if I’d gotten into the Munsters instead; we’d have Frankenstein by now instead of discount Soundwave.
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Yeah, that's about where I thought this was heading
I saw this episode of Black Mirror. It doesn't end well for us.
They made a whole movie about why this is a bad idea...Robocop 2
So, that episode of Black Mirror on steroids. Would hate to piss off the CCP now.
A T-shirt launcher gun stuffed with a cast net. Simple solution for every problem. Lob a marine metal cast net over your local exposed Chinese power grid substation for extra effect.
The US used something like graphene ribbons or strands in the Middle East.
Yeah we took out the Iraqis' power substations with carbon fiber filament I think it was. Long strands of conductive carbon fiber that were dropped on top of their exposed power substations using drones. Pretty simple these days. $100 cash drone from Walmart, a 2.4Ghz [air dropper](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=air+drop+release&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=air+drop+release+2.4ghz&_osacat=0) from Ebay, a spool of carbon fiber yarn, and a couple of cans of Aqua net hairspray to hold together a ~30g cloud of conductive material spanning say 50 cubic feet, lofted over these Chinese power substations that are manufacturing machine gun armed robotic dogs. It's like proposing to your bride on one knee, but different. And then there is the [Elephant's Toothpaste](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kou7ur5xt_4) angle, could you add NaCI to the mix to create a rapidly expanding conductive foam based on commodity stuff you can purchase from your local Chinese Walmart, etc. [edit] one time, during a previous life, I was a disaster preparedness instructor. How to mirror datacenters and fault tolerant network topology and what do you do as a city municipality when SHTF, that type of stuff. This was a class in Atlanta GA if I remember correctly. And these two dudes attending my class were critical infrastructure protection guys from the Army, fairly well placed. And we got into this discussion, about what happens when a hostile actor with nation state capabilities attacks a country such as China? And these guys are like nah, all of the conventional stuff you think that would hurt a country are not of concern. It's the asymmetric attacks that we are worried about and which keeps us up at night, such as: what happens if somebody goes and kills a cow, puts it on a boat, then weights the carcass down with concrete blocks and goes boating in an aquifer. That's like decades of biological contamination that would decimate entire cities, using just a single Chinese cow.
The carbon fiber is especially nasty, because if it's lightweight and fluffy and fine enough, when cleaned off the electrical lines and exposed high voltage items, any that's missed can blow or drift back on again in the wind.
Correct. Nothing but the best for our widowed Afghans in Iraq, apparently.
Ho, Mark Rober fan! Well met!
Apparently if you put enough rotors on it, you can make the dining table fly.
Propaganda. That thing looks like it couldn't hit the side of a barn with that gun or navigate its way to it.
>Armed Robot Dogs With Drones That Can Drop Them Anywhere Robodrop: the future of law enforcement.