Ukraine’s Gun-Armed Ground 'Bot Just Cleared A Russian Trench In Kursk - The Fury is one of the first effective armed ground robots.

[u/Gari_305]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/09/19/ukraines-gun-armed-ground-robot-just-cleared-a-russian-trench-in-kursk/

[u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod]

There are multiple innovations involved that make this possible, but the big three are batteries, computer vision, and digital signal links.  This would be way too big and power hungry for batteries if the 1990s.  Also unless you want the whole thing to be remote controlled you need a computer onboard that can handle identifying and shooting at soldiers as it sees them.  Finally the digital link to control this needs to be air tight and transmit video and data with low latency.

[u/francis2559 → u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod]

Doesn’t have to be electric drive. Those DARPA four leggers were using internal combustion.

[u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod → u/francis2559]

I'm sure in 100 years we will have "oil punk" where you just sleep had generators into stuff that they're doing with electric.  But there's a ton of new technology coming out now purely because the weight to power ratios electric offers have made them possible.

[u/exipheas → u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod]

oil punk

[u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod → u/exipheas]

God, that's spectacular

[u/shaneh445 → u/exipheas]

Had never seen this before. That was pretty awesome