Posted on 09/13/2020 12:42:52 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The Air Force deployed four-legged “robot dogs” to defend its perimeters during a recent field test, The Drive reports.
The “robot dogs” the Air Force was testing are called Vision 60 and were built by Ghost Robotics, and they look a bit like the villains in the “Metalhead” episode of “Black Mirror.” They’re designed to conduct remote inspection, surveillance, or mapping missions, as The Drive reports, and could be used to patrol perimeters at air bases as well.
“Strategic partners can build solution-specific [Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicles] for virtually any use-case with their choice of sensors, radios and even size the robot to suit specific requirements by licensing our reference designs,” according to Ghost Robotics’ website.
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I’d completely forgotten about that “Bosstown Dynamics” video. That is still great. Love the ending!
Fahrenheit 451.
That one escaped from the Herbie Hancock video of Rockit.
A can of wd-40 and they become your best friend.
They have to come up with a better acronym, or nickname for these devices,[Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicles], ain’t gonna hack it. Might I suggest changing “ground vehicles” to “terrain surveyors” and an acronym of QUNTS.
Border Patrol will probably get whole bunch during President Trump’s second term. They are getting the robot aerial drones and the AI (unmanned) surveillance towers now.
I wonder from which grocery store did they swipe the cart?
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