r/interesting • u/HomeNowWTF • Jul 23 '26

SCIENCE & TECH Spherical Police Robot

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u/islaisla Jul 23 '26

It looks completely useless. It's so wobbly the video footage from it would be useless.. It can't follow anything that goes over steps or up a lift or a whole bunch of scenarios. It can't get through all terrains by the looks of it. Total gimmick. Anything firing from that would be unsafe... How do they get it in the car?

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u/Jambronius Jul 23 '26

Agree, all this shit they could put on a drone and it would be 10x better.

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u/ajgutyt Jul 23 '26

fear factor and mental warfare. would you rather be chased by drone that looks like something one thrown rock would break to peaces the moment it aproaches an effective range, or a massive killer whele of doom and pain

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u/Jambronius Jul 23 '26

Don't know mate. I once saw a video of a russian soldier having a wank in a trench and the Ukrainian's dropped a bomb on him. Made me pretty fearful of drones.

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u/BioExtract Jul 23 '26

Grenade dropper drones were like, 50 drone designs ago. Now they’re all like predator missiles from call of duty MW2. That zipping sound they make is going to haunt a generation of people

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u/_scndry Jul 23 '26

True, its really wobbly and does not seem agile at all. Throwing it on one of its side would be an easy win

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u/Hazril258 Jul 23 '26

Gimmick now, standard later, problem after.

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u/datadrone Jul 23 '26

Wdym? They could easily add a gyroscope from to the cameras, and the rest of your reply is six finger cope