Ukraine said it took a Russian position using just drones and ground robots.
Zelenskyy said it was a wartime first, and no Ukrainian infantry was involved.
He said robots have done over 22,000 missions in three months, keeping many soldiers from harm.
Russian soldiers have been recorded surrendering to both aerial drones and ground robots in this war, including by writing messages of surrender that they presented to the operator via the onboard camera and surrendering after notes telling them to do so were dropped by drones.
Surrendering to a machine sounds humiliating but still a better option than going back to the Russian military.
sudo make the Russians retreat
You are not in the sudoers file, this incident will be reported
Sudo delete the incident report
Robot Wars was a documentary
One small step for man, one giant warning siren for mankind.
Yeah… I really don’t like the changes that the Russian Invasion of Ukraine are making to war.
Cheap Kamikaze drones, unmanned roving gun turrets, etc etc… Removing men on the ground feels like its gonna make it easier to pursue and lust for wars as these technologies continue to advance further and remove the human components.
What happens when it’s an occupying force? i.e. mainly around civilians.
It’s going to be a special kind of hell.
well said. No boots on the ground doesn’t seem to mean less wars, just more wars with less boots on ground.
Yep.
it doesnt mean less wars.
It just means more innocent/civilian suffering.
It’s also a pretty big step for man.
Can’t wait for one of them to be chasing me down for the crime of “thinking unfavorably about Peter Thiel”
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If it makes you feel any better, these are all being remote controlled.
So while you’re off from your day job of piloting the robot that hunts down dissident Filipinos, some Filipino operator is driving the drone that bombs your car for its “Impeach President Newsom” bumper sticker.
Something Something Just Like Communist China.
If it makes you feel any better, these are all being remote controlled.
Ukraine has started using some AI drones. Probably (my guess) with the AI set to “if you lose connection, try to hit any humans in this area”. So no, not necessarily.
Probably (my guess) with the AI set to “if you lose connection, try to hit any humans in this area”
What could go wrong there?
That would be a war crime.
How so? If the Ukrainians has previously determined that the area contains no civilians, then how would it be different from firing an unguided missile at the same area.
Or a landmine…
Well, the future looks bright enough. We may work to death in captailist states, but at least robots will fight each other, so no need for soldiers.
robots will fight each other, so no need for soldiers.
Ukrainian remote operators are killing Russian soldiers today.
In another few weeks, a Russian advance will take territory containing Ukrainian operators. At which point, well…
Robots will fight each other over the burnt remnants of our homes.
This can fill the void that Battlebots’ cancellation left behind.
…until one of the warring countries runs out of robots anyway. That’s when the real fun starts!
So… we got two ways to go. One the robot on robot wars end up wiping us all out by exhausting all or resources and of course killing civilians. Or we take to space and have the robot wars stay on earth. Mars at least I figure. For a few at least.
I think I’ve seen this somewhere ….
Or… send the robots to mars to fight…
Yeah, but the resources they want to fight over are on earth… for now. Humans will just have to keeping moving to stay out of the robots way.
Or Geonosis
May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins…
As always, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
things are going to get really weird
Looks more like that road is paved with Russian corpses.
Good intentions and human skulls.
Haha first thing I thought of reading that headline,shit we’re going terminator. Well one day they’ll realize they don’t need us I assume. Just have to blot out the sun to go Matrix…
So many exciting possibilities!!! NGL, I was hoping they’d bring dinosaurs back before the machines killed us. Maybe the Matrix will decide to incorporate them. I can live with that.
You want to live with fucking dinosaurs?? Didn’t you watch that movie?
Yeah. But I was a kid in the 80s so I’m also partial to this scenario:
Lmao, that was before my time. That’s badass.
Wait, I’m on the side of the robots for this one?
What an amazing entrée to untold horrors
This is nothing but an amuse-bouche compared to the future I foresee.
Praise the Omnissiah!
Dad said “Mario Kart is a waste of time, son.”
That’s General son to you, Dad.
crazy stuff, now twinks will win wars not 7 feet chuds
I’ve seen some videos about drone operators. They are right next to the front lines, under constant observation by enemy drones, in the range of artillery, getting in and out during the night, spending most time underground. They may not be 7 feet tall but they are still chuds.
Maybe the Ukrainian ones, ours sit in an air conditioned room in the Vegas desert then go to the strip club after their shift
Different types of drones. Ukraine uses mostly fiber wire drones (earlier WiFi) due to jamming. High altitude drones use some sat links.
That works for expensive drones, but not so much for the tiny ones that are ubiquitous on front lines.
Let’s let capitalism intervene until they’re all in a call center in India
The more remote the comms, the higher the ability to interfere. And someone will always have to be close to launch drones with limited range.
That’s not where you get the top progamers nowadays!
What a time to be alive, male and between 18 and 50 🫡🫠
