The Robot that Runs 18MPH on Legs - Another Jumps 30 Feet



I almost can't wait for circa 2070 when these things have minds of their own and keep us as pets.
 
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if i become a billionaire first thing im doing is making a running robot army
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The idea of a private robot army is fascinating. Imagine a baller with his own little neighborhood shock troop in the garage, and downloading software for them to do certain kinds of tactical missions together as a cohesive unit. (The most common one of course would be compound defense)

Naturally most voters and sheeple would hate the idea of it being legal at all; it'd be like automatic weapon ownership without the permit... :2gunsfiring_v1:

Surely legislation will be introduced as soon as the first good product is sold.

But survival people and gun lovers will definitely want their own. Could be a great black market product.
 
lukep said:
The idea of a private robot army is fascinating. Imagine a baller with his own little neighborhood shock troop in the garage, and downloading software for them to do certain kinds of tactical missions together as a cohesive unit. (The most common one of course would be compound defense)

Naturally most voters and sheeple would hate the idea of it being legal at all; it'd be like automatic weapon ownership without the permit... :2gunsfiring_v1:

Surely legislation will be introduced as soon as the first good product is sold.

But survival people and gun lovers will definitely want their own. Could be a great black market product.
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Not only that, but if they can quickly assemble more of themselves?

I'll be very worried when the mad scientists of the world start building their armies and we have our first robot war on our hands.
 
VinBed said:
Not only that, but if they can quickly assemble more of themselves?

I'll be very worried when the mad scientists of the world start building their armies and we have our first robot war on our hands.
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Von Neumann machines have a big flaw in that you really need all the parts lying around already in order to assemble more... Unlike on Stargate and other sci-fi, it takes HUGE amounts of materials & Energy in order to break down things like plastic, sand, rubber and metals, smelt them into the proper shape and density, form, weld, wire and all of that... Not to mention all the different materials they'd need to have broken down, like sand into silicon, scrap metals into molten metal, rubber scraps into the wire insulators, lithium into batteries, plastic scraps or even Petrol to make the plastic out of, glass, tungsten for any lit elements, perhaps even some gold for the circuits, etc... Where is a bot going to find all of these materials lying around near each other to make another bot out of?

I'd say we're still hundreds of years from any kind of self-replicating threat. It'll only happen at all once we've mastered nanotech, and that will likely present us with other, larger threats first.
 
I should've been born in the 40s so I could grow up with Ozzie and Harriet instead of living in this fucked up era.
 
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