Great thing about robotics is that you build the robot to fill a role most efficiently. While humanoid robots are neat in the common imagination they are fairly impractical. A ground based combat robot would probably be some kind of high terrain mobility, low profile, autonomous/semi-autonomous drone with good image recogoniction, deployed in groups with weapon systems appropriate for handling different situations.
IE its probably more cost efficient to have a gun and a camera on top of some treads in a little metal dome than to have an upright robot that can do backflips or whatever
@4578eac2 @Spooky Ice fren❄️ 🎃 @Sick Burn, Bro robots/AI are seriously impractical for the challenges of war right now.
My point exactly, remote controlled paper planes with a bunch of mortar shells strapped to them do more than enough rn
@4578eac2 @Spooky Ice fren❄️ 🎃 @Sick Burn, Bro Who’s going to be prosecuted when your “autonomous” humanoid killing machine lobs a grenade at an orphanage? For that matter, who would stop it? That’s just scratching the surface of what’s wrong with AI in war.
The losing army. In war it doesn't matter, there will be a side who wants to win more and considers the cost of a rogue killing machine worth it. If it leads to victory, that is all that matters.
It would be pretty wild to have some robot that goes into leopard mode charging at some Russian nigga at 40 mph dodging bullets and shredding an entire camp in seconds.
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