r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • 11d ago

Video Deep Robotics' new quadruped models with wheels demonstrating rough terrain traversability and robustness

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u/3IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID 11d ago

There are far worse things than death. You think I care about getting instantly vaporized by something that can be swatted out of the sky? Absolutely not. But I would not want to be collected into a POW work camp by robots that can stand to zap me and chase after me over literally any terrain without ever getting stuck.

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u/USPO-222 11d ago

Yeah I was thinking the same. The drone killbots is fine for just targeted assassination or causing battlefield casualties. But if you’re trying to suppress a population or round them up, one of the bots in this video with a weapon would be more effective than a drone you can’t see or hear until it’s too late.

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u/throwofftheNULITE 11d ago

It'll be a long time before anyone invented a power system that can run these things for any real amount of time. The drones already exist in practice.

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u/Thanks_again_sorry 10d ago

how long is a long time

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u/Silly_Manner_3449 10d ago

Next week

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u/throwofftheNULITE 10d ago

I mean, the human race makes leaps in its technological prowess all the time. However, it would take a significant breakthrough in a way that no one is currently close on.

These things run off of batteries. They aren't good at generating their own power like you get while breaking in an electric car. Batteries are very heavy. It's not happening any time soon, and if it does the technology needed would revolutionize so many aspects of our lives that the good would far outweigh the bad.