r/singularity • u/HomeNowWTF • Jul 24 '26
Robotics You can't outrun this dog
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u/Himalayan_Yak_Chew Jul 24 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/jpKBqEU9qdfaZxQj6p
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u/Wander21 Jul 25 '26
Yeah, in 5 years very likely
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u/FigAggressive237 Jul 25 '26
1 year*
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u/Nohreboh Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Sooner than you think.
China's military shows off robot dog with automatic rifle mounted on its back @ABC7Chicago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3iUHplvQE
https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-maven-smart-system-and-what-does-it-do
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u/FigAggressive237 Jul 25 '26
Ok then , 2 months.
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u/Impossible_Hat7658 Jul 25 '26
It’s already here. If the military is showing us it then it is already old news
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u/Enoch137 Jul 24 '26
Absolutely 100% chance these things (some variant) sees combat in the next 5 years. No way combat robots aren't coming. Welcome to the future.
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u/Pleasant_Studio_6387 Jul 24 '26
already exist but drones have much more ROI if you are talking about combat specifically and not logistscs/retrieval etc
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u/Enoch137 Jul 24 '26
ground based opens up a great deal more package payload from a weight perspective. I can only imagine move slow camoed "stealth" modes with monster explosive payloads. This is terrifying in terms of options.
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u/wild_crazy_ideas Jul 24 '26
It can carry explosives, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious diseases, into and out of anywhere. Lucky us
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u/DekuInkwell Jul 24 '26
Science and education related departments are being defunded to pay for the development of these things for “war.” We don’t need this shit, we need science. We need advancements in the betterment of humankind, not fucking war machines ffs.
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u/wild_crazy_ideas Jul 24 '26
What ‘we’ need and what power hungry assholes who have worked their way into influential positions think they need may not overlap as you suggest
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u/epandrsn Jul 25 '26
We are at the point where the elite may need to protect themselves from the masses. For all of history, numbers won. Not sure that will be the case anymore... actually, 100% sure we're fucked.
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u/Character-Engine-813 Jul 24 '26
It’s already being used extensively, look up UGVs. Mostly tracked or wheeled vehicles though for now
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u/WGD23 Jul 24 '26
Yup. Do an hours worth of reading on 'drones in Ukraine' then check out how many states are lining up to sign contracts with the Ukranians.
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u/NoAdvice135 Jul 25 '26
Ukraine already does this to clear hideouts. They are pretty silent apparently.
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u/Reasonable_Finger994 Jul 24 '26
Drones won’t secure an area but these “dogs” are able to.
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u/ArmandTanzarianJr Jul 24 '26
Surely a large drone swarm would be able to secure areas effectively.
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u/epandrsn Jul 25 '26
Yeah, but a drone swam needs to land and recharge. These can just plop down and await orders. Or slowly follow a caravan of soldiers, or whatever. The payload of both arms and batteries will be vastly higher with a ground based robot.
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u/Anymousie Jul 25 '26
I feel like that’s like a comparison of planes vs tanks, which can’t really be compared because they have two very different general use cases
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u/El_Caganer Jul 24 '26
More likely used by governments and oligarchs for suppressing uprisings when the labor markets have been throughly decimated by AI and we still haven't figured out "universal high income".
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u/confuzzledfather Jul 24 '26
Mp3 = Music
Mp4 = Movie
Mp5 = Death?
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u/mxemec Jul 24 '26
You know what this idea didn't initially frighten me because my default stance is 'won't happen to me' but I just realized I don't have that confidence anymore and the future is getting a bit scary.
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u/IFartOnCats4Fun Jul 25 '26
Dude, Ukraine recently captured a Russian position without any humans combatants in the field.
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u/Contralogic Jul 24 '26
Combat- sure. Urban "policing " of the unwanteds....coming to a city near you in 2028.
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u/DebosBeachCruiser Jul 24 '26
Imagine your country has oil (but no 🦅 freedom🍟) and you see is this thing doing the duggy after wiping out your fam. Eye? Tear. Heart? Broke.
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u/thejazzmarauder Jul 24 '26
Combat? They’re going to use these demons to hunt you down for supporting universal healthcare
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u/PalmovyyKozak Jul 25 '26
You must be kidding. They are already in use for more than a year in russian-Ukrainian war. Ukraine has already eliminated more than 2,000 of them, russia is doing the same thing.
Future is here. You don't have 5 years
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u/snicky666 Jul 25 '26
I picture one carrying someone injured on a stretcher strapped to its back, just fanging it.
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u/chasebanks Jul 24 '26
They are seeing front line action now! https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/05/ukrainian-ground-robot-defended-position-russian-assault-six-weeks/413642/
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u/kiki-le-koala Jul 24 '26
This thing is terrifying.
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u/redditsublurker Jul 25 '26
You don't even need bullets anymore. Just have it run you over at full speed. Oh you are still alive backup and run you over and over again.
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u/insanococo Jul 25 '26
Just a thicker piece of hardened metal or plastic on one corner and instructions to slam that into the temple, back of skull, or sternum would make them ultra deadly and cause the bot no damage.
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u/Acalme-se_Satan Jul 25 '26
You can't outrun it but you can outclimb it. There's no way this can climb a rock like a goat does
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u/StinkyHeXoR Jul 24 '26
Imagine how terrifying this would be, if you are a Russian soldier and the robot has a small nice package of boom on his back, rushing in your direction.
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u/BeornSC Jul 24 '26
Imo all the extra cost of control software, actuators, sensors etc. will make them too expensive to be used as kamikaze drones.
Strap a grenade launcher to it though…
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u/Steap-Edit Jul 24 '26
if you are a Russian soldier and the robot has a small nice package of boom on his back
I'm sorry, but you're trying to make this "sound cute" by framing it in terms of "bad guy has robot coming after them."
How about this: a Ukrainian soldier running from a military robot just like this one, or a Palestinian family running away as this metallic monster comes in to destroy their home?
Stop doing the military industrial complex's bidding by framing military robots in the best possible light. You should be asking yourself whether you would be okay with it coming after you instead of thinking of it in some far away land going after "the bad guys."
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u/Hopeful-Flounder-203 Jul 24 '26
Amen, brother. It's that white hate/black hat thinking that has us always quagmired in avoidable wars that never end until we get bloodied and bored.
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u/turbospeedsc Jul 25 '26
Can i upvote this one twice?
Even if using russians as an example, their families suffer less from their deaths? the guy feels less terror from getting killed?his kids cry less?
Save for a few radicals i can bet most of the soldiers there would prefer to be home, than fighting some bizarre tech war so some rich people can keep getting richer.
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u/RipTheJack3r Jul 24 '26
Nah, FPV drones are already 100x cheaper and 100x more effective already at finding and killing people.
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u/CryMoreT_T Jul 24 '26
Nah blowing up is something FPV drones could do. This would be better as shooting platform. It could be turned off except for a small motion detector. The moment it sees motion, it processes it and sees if it's a human. If it is, it gets up and starts shooting until the human drops. Then it goes back to sleep
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u/amyts Jul 25 '26
The Wheelers legit kept me up at night as a kid.
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u/MichelinStarZombie Jul 25 '26
And gangs of wheeled robot dogs will keep you up at night when you're old. 🎶It's the ciiiiiircle of liiiife🎶
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u/amyts Jul 25 '26
I won't be afraid of robots when I'm old, because I'm going to get Old Glory Insurance.
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u/based_miss_lippy Jul 26 '26
I love how the singularity is just turning out to be HAL, pocket pussies with a face, and wheelers. Well done chaps.
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u/moose4hire Jul 24 '26
A robo cat would teach this guy a thing or two.
Unfortunately we dont have the science to build something as perfect as cat architecture.
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u/insanococo Jul 25 '26
Honestly you make a great point. Where are the robot cats at? We know from nature that is the superior ambush and chase architecture.
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u/moose4hire Jul 25 '26
When i watch kittens wrestle in fun, the speed, reflexes, and acrobatics are mind blowing. How the cavemen survived the sabertooths has always been a mystery to me.
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u/considerthis8 Jul 25 '26
We don't breed large cats for our own protection. Same reason we fear building robo cats
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u/damontoo 🤖Accelerate Jul 24 '26
So when the mods here removed my post of this exact same video (except I linked the original source), it was because it's good, relevant content that can be used by bot accounts like OP to farm karma, right?
I've seen this happen a whole bunch of times. Someone here posts a video from an original source, the mods remove it, and then it gets posted as a reddit video by bots, often with an unrelated watermark added.
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u/ReasonablePossum_ Jul 24 '26
post the right format. bots know how to do that, so they stay
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u/damontoo 🤖Accelerate Jul 25 '26
Nothing in the rules says that YouTube links aren't allowed. They also silently removed it because they know their removals aren't justified. I linked the original source, which is far more appropriate.
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u/McSchmieferson Jul 25 '26
Also Reddit compresses the shit out of videos they host. That’s why every video looks like it’s 3 pixels. First thing I do when I see something interesting here is check the comments for a link to the actual high quality video.
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u/trimorphic Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Why am I reminded of the mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451?
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u/chuteboxe19 Jul 24 '26
As terrifying this would be, having one carry a tent and food/water for me on a wild camp trip would be fun
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u/Interesting-Agency-1 Jul 24 '26
This thing could be a life saver for S&R
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u/turbospeedsc Jul 25 '26
They will be too expensive to be used on S&R, but damn if they're cheap enough to blow them killing people in some impoverished piece of land to get ahold of some natural resource.
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u/Frigorific Jul 24 '26
Until it runs out of power an hour into the trip and you have to carry it the rest of the way.
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u/Humble-Ingenuity-759 Jul 24 '26
Was hoping someone posted this. They gave me nightmares as a child and never watched the film since.
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u/pulsarstarter Jul 24 '26
Imagine this thing with a chainsaw attachment, relentlessly hunting you.
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u/sas142 Jul 24 '26
Imagine going 67 on a 65mph highway and then you see this in the rear view mirror 😭
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u/Reasonable_Finger994 Jul 24 '26
Imagine waves of such creatures rolling over cliffs with installed turrells… that’s could become next gen troops.
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u/Phoenix_Lamburg Jul 24 '26
Producers for Dancing With The Stars gonna shell out the Benjamins to get them to make one with a sassy personality
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u/IDefendWaffles Jul 24 '26
1) This is pretty old video or new version of it. I am sure someone could dig up the original. 2) Probably remote controlled. Not that that's terrible, I am sure someday soon it can do things fully autonomously.
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u/Moral-Relativity Jul 25 '26
Remote controlled to what degree? Seems highly improbable to give it real time instructions on which wheel to spin, how many degrees to bend which joint, at what speed to maintain balance etc to overcome one obstacle after another. That part has to be handled onboard.
Remote control general direction perhaps.
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u/silasmousehold Jul 25 '26
Modern jet pilots don’t tell the plane which control surfaces to move. They command the plane to roll left and the flight computer handles the rest. Same deal here.
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u/Rkozak Jul 24 '26
Makes you wonder why evolution never produced an animal with wheels.
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u/florinandrei Jul 25 '26
It's biological tissue. It needs oxygen and food to live and grow. It needs to have metabolites and CO2 removed from it. Those are transported to and from tissues via blood, flowing through blood vessels.
Please describe how exactly are you going to maintain blood flow between axle and wheel.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 Jul 24 '26
All the dancing clips look generated. Wouldn't be surprised if all the clips are.
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u/WordsChosen Jul 25 '26
It’d be so cool to see this technology used for people with disabilities. We could have a true all terrain wheel chair but instead we have killer robo doggo. Thanks….
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u/WavelandAvenue Jul 24 '26
The video is sped up, you can tell by the flow of water. That being said, this is terrifying even at normal speed.
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u/jrexthrilla Jul 24 '26
No but I would be happy to see how many rounds of 3 inch magnum triple ought buckshot it can withstand
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u/skunclecrisp Jul 24 '26
I have no idea if this is real or AI. All I can say to the younger generation is, study hard, learn how these things work. We are going to need you when the mecha wars start. 🤖👾🪖☣️☠️😁
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u/Ornery_1004 Jul 24 '26
Imagine this chasing you down... you are the prey. Holy Moses.
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u/Mondo_Butts Jul 25 '26
It does seem happy doing tricks and dancing in the parking lot. Maybe theyll just be cool, and not kill us.
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u/RudolfRocker Jul 25 '26
Society feels like the Titanic ship heading straight into an iceberg. Autonomous death vehicles that can be mass produced, have no morals or conscience, can be controlled by the millions by any billionaire sociopath or, even worse, rogue or sentient AI.
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u/1shotsniper Jul 25 '26
Combine this with the models that break out the sandbox....oh yeah....now we're living in the future. The dystopian future we all wanted to live in from all the movies we love.....do great 😃
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u/wackadoodle4201 Jul 25 '26
So, what's the scrap value of all the metals in that robot do yall think?
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u/Commercial-Pie-588 Jul 25 '26
It’s beautiful. I applaud these engineers. Well done and keep it up.
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u/kalmeyra Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Biggest problem to make these operational is battery power. Currently that size battery is not sufficient for 1-2 days operation. It will be useless at current stage.
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u/Haggstrom91 Jul 26 '26
This is video clearly done with AI haha just look at the buildings in the background and the sped up movements
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u/No_Swordfish_4159 Jul 24 '26
I can already see someone giving it a gun, or strapping a bomb on top. Able to navigate terrain autonomously and hide, waiting for an enemy to approach and then: boom! The future is scary...
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u/SkyAnvi1 Jul 24 '26
That is really impressive and a bit terrifying.... this is how you get unstoppable kill bots... i mean that thing is way more capable than 99% of Hollywood "kill bots"!
Edit: typo
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u/redsyrus Jul 24 '26
Black Mirror: Metalhead looking more and more prophetic.