Hear me out : Cameras.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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Hear me out.
Magnets.
Do magnets disable cameras ?
Hear me out : EMP gun from a distance.
What's the *scratching arm* copper content of these fellas?
I may be ignorant, but from my experience Boston Dynamics is cool and if they were able to sell these things to the AI guys good for them!
I know these robots are used to do maintenance vhecks on big factories, where a dude can tell it to walk to a valve to look at it through a camera, and i think thats fine.
Instead of having 50 cameras you have one walking one.
I work in big factories and this is a stupid fucking idea.
Scenario 1: you have 6 trained maintenance guys on shift. One of them goes to check out the questionable valve and fixes it because they are trained to do so. The 5 other guys also work on stuff.
Scenario 2: one of the maintenace guys sits in the office because someone needs to coordinate with the robot dogs. They call the person who controls the dogs to go check out the valve. It is broken. A couple hours later they call a maintenace tech to check it out for real. Unfortunately the company can only afford 3 maintenance techs now because of the dogs, and one of the techs is on tech duty to communicate with the dog team. The other two are busy so the incident is recorded in the logs for an engineer to hire a contractor to fix at a total of three times the price, in six months' time.
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Black Mirror, here we come.
These systems are able to navigate complex landscapes on their own, alert authorities about security threats, and can provide around-the-clock video surveillance.
If only there was a cheaper way to provide around-the-clock video surveillance. Alas, we don't have the technology.
Even if you needed something mobile, it's not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.
They don't need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.
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.
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guarding some of the country's biggest data centers
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
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Probably get about two or three lbs of copper out of the motors alone. Still not worth the gas unless you're going to fill up the back of your truck with em though.
Would be funny to hear about a kid with a slingshot or something taking these out.
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So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
Well you can't attach a machine gun to a dog with teeth. I mean you can, but it won't hit anything.
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On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.
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One step closer to a Horizon Zero Dawn future. Just let me live long enough to see the dinobots.
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SMASH THE CLANKERS ! Any solid metal rod will do ! Get out there and smash those sorry imitations of "dogs" to pieces !
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People with good intentions should not hesitate to blast a robot. Just sayin'.
Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
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So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
Anything to not hire people uh
Thats the funny part. There are human operators on stand by.
The scary part is that we really will be fighting robots for water...
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Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money
Hunting them for sport must be fun, and there is zero guilt unlike regular hunting ! I bet they are extremely vulnerable to pit traps 😁 just hide the hole under a tarp and watch em fall !
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
Basically yea, you're paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it's probably still cheaper to just hire people.
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do these do any image analysis? what happens when you hold a mirror to them lol
They feel shame and embarrassment like the rest of us.
the coolest thing about these dogs? you can break them with a directional wireless jamming device.
also known as a .308 Winchester.
Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.
But:
- That won't get you millions increase in investor funding, which also lets you increase your pay-cheque
- You need to buy them from actual dog trainers, which are people and will eventually stop selling to you once you either become too evil for them or you murder them
- They are a supply chain risk as once you eventually piss off the dog trainer by 4x-ing his electricity bills and getting your AI to tell the govt. to shoot his family, he can then bypass the dogs using his smell, because they would be familiar with him.
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It's kinda funny how these dogs went from cute and interesting robot developments to tools of the military industrial complex. The people who designed these are disgusting and depraved.
Not really. The people who designed these are nerds like us that want to push the boundaries of science. If they don’t do it someone else will.
The people that choose what to apply them too are the ones with poor morals. You could build these things and only sell them to places that use them for monitoring things like they do in dangerous factories these days.
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Are they fireproof?
Honestly the cooling system used is the only thing that anyone needs to hit to take an entire data center down.
Without cooling, everything would melt.
Could be that they all use the same default password - easily searchable if true because it’s probably pinging out asking for connections.
Also massive supply chain attack surface due to the 3rd party dependencies.
If someone were to get within WiFi range they could cause a lot of damage to their infrastructure by attacking the supply chain.
It’s really too bad Claude code identified all those 3rd party security holes opening up these data centers to all these cyber threats.
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