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Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers (fortune.com)
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[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 112 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They don't need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking the same thing. For surveillance, can't they just use the iconic Camera on Wall. Or if they want to get really advanced with the surrounding premises: Camera on Pole.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Camera on pole can't "remove" problems as quickly

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think these can either, they don't list attack or defensive capabilities on the feature list that I saw, I assume this is just an over glorified video camera that can follow the intruder around.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe not factory. But if Michael Reeves can teach one how to piss beer, I'm sure there's options on the market.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago

You don't need a robot dog to have a gun. If you really wanted to have a wall mounted camera with a gun on it, it would be just as easy.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And use AI to actually monitor the thousand cameras. Ask me how I know.

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How you know

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

The AI company I work for recently rolled it out. It works. We are getting alerts when we block the view of a monitored object or an unfamiliar face is in a secure location. Many thousands of cameras are monitored with minimal human oversight.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

With enough kinetic energy, anything's mobile.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

And no recharging time.