Might I suggest "innocent people?"
Thanks.
- a former US immigrant, who left when things got spicy
This will not end well if you have any respect for basic human rights (even for non-US citizens).
You have not done the bare minimum of research before blasting out your hilariously melodramatic comment.
On the upside, I look forward to everyone at Boston Dynamics being subpoenaed for the next few years. Maybe we’ll get some new entrants from the departures.
Any sufficiently large robots with powerful actuators are an inherent threat when used next to untrained people. This one especially so because it'll be used in adversarial encounters. In reality it'll probably be reserved for scouting (unless you genuinely believe that that agency is going to be investigating gas leaks or doing search and rescues), but do you think they'll care about making it snap someone's bone when they kick the robot and their leg gets stuck between its leg and torso? And that's before you imagine what basic modifications they could fashion onto these things.
>hazardous gas detection, search and rescue, as well as suspicious package investigations
What the fuck does that have to do with immigration and customs enforcement?
Unless you strap a gun to one (which they are not doing afaik) how could they actually cause harm to a human?
Cyberpunk, albeit a nothing-burger.
These are not the metal-toothed cartoon dogs you so badly want them to be.
Genuinely curious how you are saying they are dangerous? Are they more or less dangerous than a human with a gun?
They were barely deployed to regular police when fastening flash-bang grenades to them came up [1].
> Are they more or less dangerous than a human with a gun?
I genuinely don’t see these being used as an “or.” It’s undertrained idiots with guns plus these, or just the former.
[1] https://www.semafor.com/article/05/19/2026/worker-backlash-o...
Except that's not what's happening here. In fact, quite the opposite, it's more like robotic PPE.
Nobody claimed anyone has been injured by these devices yet. (They haven’t been deployed in public.)
The reasonable concern is that when they are deployed, they are likely to injure someone because the people deploying them have been eagerly hurting—and defending those who hurt—innocent Americans.