Real life robots are more terrible than calling allegations

Robot Dog was tested in Ukraine

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Campaign Viral Marketing Campaign for Upcoming Invitation to Duty: Black Ops 7 Includes A Website for the CEHThe fictional defense contractor moving in the civilian market with ominous slogan “end your home security fears … forever.” Mock Articles in Forbes (!) And wired describes the bick drugs in the Guild, Robotic Dogs and Androids. The armed robots are scary, but the campaign becomes two things badly wrong. First, the game was set in 2035. years, and the guild already looks behind the curve of 2025. Years. Second, the threat is not a military hardware that moves to home: it is the weapon of electronic toys we already have.

Military V Commercial Technology: Great shift

The army used to be much in front of the commercial sector, and a large part of the technology we take was for almost originally came from defense and development. The Internet was created as ARPANET, which was created by the pre-researching Pentagon (now DARPA). GPS, still manages American space force, is originally the military. Even an integrated circle, ubiquitous “Silicon Chip” are basically created by Texas air force instruments, and the first great use was at Minuteman II projectiles. I wrote the whole book about this 2005. years – Arms Rating: Detecting the links between modern war and our high-tech world

But things have changed, at least in the world of small electronics she left. The revolution of smartphones in the Consumer Electronics Cycle of Mobile Phones spent in research and climovic and their tempo, with a new phone each year, soon grew military multi-year procurement cycle. Economy Scale allowed the phone manufacturers to produce an increasingly capable hardware on a fraction of the costs of the military who mentioned.

This has become painfully obvious in 2009. year with US Army Land systemA tactical computer that allows soldiers to move and communicate with voice, text and data in motion. In other words, some kind of things worked on their phones. The difference was that the earth warrior weighed eight pounds and cost about $ 50,000. The military quickly moved to a system based on born android phones Net Varior.

Ukraine Army of Consumer Robots

When Russia attacked Ukraine, Ukrainians hurried to use low-budget technology they had to surrender. The call went out on the drone hobbyists to help military efforts provide many necessary eyes in the sky. This led to at least one scenario worthy Hollywood, when it proved to be a 15-year-old Andrii Pokraran that the only drone user was in the line of Russian progress. Accompanied by his father, pookrasa launched his drone and Located Column of Russian Tank and Carrier Staff, Enabling Ukrainian artillery to target them and stop in advance.

The bukrainian operator burdens two grenades on “toy” to Mavic 3 drone

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Shortly afterwards, Ukrainian enthusiasts in Ukrainian racing drones adapted Fast FPV Drones in miniature guided missiles. It was now built in a million, these low-budget weapons became the most effective weapons in Ukraine Arsenal. Little drones now inflict most Russian victims. Critics call them toys, but it’s a dead toy.

In the field, while NATO armies use $ 1 million crawler robots, Ukrainians improvise. Fastening Two floating and regulator on the metal frameThey created a low-budget robot for supplying supplies. They even built and attacked a rocket launcher for a few hundred dollars.

Chinese military adjustment of consumer robots

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There are already robotic dogs there. The US Army experimentes with them since the early 2000s, but their hardware is still expensive: four-legged patrolling American air bases cost $ 150,000 per piece. Meanwhile Ukrainian troops bought robot dogs Sold on the Market of the Hobby of the Chinese Company Unitree for $ 5,000, for research within buildings and other dangerous tasks. Have not yet seen armed versions but US companies showed rThe thrice of dogs equipped with sniper rifles, And Chinese military showed videos about their use in exercises

Android warriors

Last month unitrose started their new low cost robots. They can occur in Ukraine before long, maybe walking ahead patrol to find traps for booby and clear routes through minefields or take bullets to exhibit an enemy position. At several thousand dollars per piece, these robots are a cheap melest chair: limited, but it is infinitely more spent than people. Improvising the armed version for cleaning Russian trenches should not be an impossible technical challenge, given how easily they have troops on the field An attached cut shotguns on the drone.

The military hardware is too expensive for the civilian market. But there are many flows, and in other ways and procurement of the defense will keep up to date with consumer technology. Terrorists and criminals are already starting. Cartels are already using drone for smuggling, reconnaissance and bomb throwing. In the US, the right extremist groups talk openly How will they use drones in the upcoming civil war.

Tesla’s The best robot Soon the mass was produced as a general purpose worker. But it is almost inevitable that it will hack in military purposes, just like Two-hobby drones are hacked in ways that their producers never intended in Ukraine.

Smuggled and chips that made companies like nvidia are already used Highly autonomous Russian killer killerAnd that is fast becoming capable. Drone with remote control and today you will need a little if any human entry in the next few years.

The call for duty is right to predict the future of dangerous robots. They are right to think the hardware will come from the defense sector. All – including the ribbean, terrorists and cartels – now have access to the advanced new technology from the consumer market.

We can expect very autonomous kotors, accompanying, legs and humanoid robots to get cheaper and more frequent. And, as in Ukraine, early adoptive parents will be people looking for low-budget, easily accessible weapons systems.