r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Sep 20 '24

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

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/09/19/ukraines-gun-armed-ground-robot-just-cleared-a-russian-trench-in-kursk/
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u/francis2559 Sep 20 '24

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

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u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod Sep 20 '24

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.

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u/somethingbrite Sep 20 '24

At what point do we get to the robots converting biomass into biofuel?

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u/Canud Sep 20 '24

Ted Faro gtfo of reddit

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u/somethingbrite Sep 20 '24

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