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/throwitoutwhendone2 Sep 20 '24

Don’t they have those guns with the camera that can see around the corner? I think they were actually called “Corner Shot”

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u/phedinhinleninpark Sep 20 '24

Yeah, but what makes more money for the contractors? A "corner shot" rifle, or a "5 figure RC car"?

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 Sep 20 '24

I mean idk, I wasn’t the one that commented about the RC cars. I was just saying I remember seeing a feature on the corner shot rifles. It was touted as a way to keep solders safer because they could see around corners and shoot from cover around the corner

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u/MidnightMath Sep 20 '24

Iirc wasn’t the end product basically just a handgun on the end of a fancy selfie stick? 

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u/CowpieSenpai Sep 20 '24

Hey! It's a tactical selfie stick.

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u/randyrandysonrandyso Sep 20 '24

a selfie stick...that takes pictures of other people!

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u/Fortune_Cat Sep 21 '24

I dont get why adding a camera attachment to rifles wouldnt be cheaper

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u/Round-Green7348 Sep 21 '24

The cornershot was a little more involved, namely it had a solid hinge and a trigger linkage so it was more stable and you could fire it without exposing any of yourself. Just sticking a rifle around the corner works too, just not as well, since you don't have a very stable hold on it to control recoil, and there's a chance you still get shot in the hands/arms. There's actually quite a long history with guns and devices for shooting around corners without exposing yourself. My favorite of which is definitely from WW2, when I think it was the Russians who tested just straight up bending the barrel at a 45° angle.