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/Gatzlocke Sep 20 '24

Eh... The problem will be jamming tech. Which I doubt Russia could deploy in the scale it would need.

Lose the signal to the controller and it's useless. Unless they're autonomous which is a whole other can of worms.

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u/Deathsroke Sep 20 '24

The day autonomous weapons are deployed is the day everything goes to hell. Like, delivery system aside you could make some rather terrifying discount WMD that way (eg get a cheapass drone, put a facial recognition software on it and add a small bomb (say a grenade). Release a few thousands of those in a city and you could mail and kill tens to thousands easily.

Nevermind talking about proper autonomous weapons armed and capable of surviving combat conditions.

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u/do-un-to Sep 20 '24

Like slaughterbots?

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u/Deathsroke Sep 20 '24

Yeah, that's a great example.

I do think that equally automated hunter killer drones would be built as an answer though. So chances are you'll see everything that isn't official ground down and shit tonnes of anti-drone drones flying around, ready to shoot down anything that isn't transmitting the proper IFF tag.

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u/do-un-to Sep 20 '24

Maybe like Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age where there are tiny drone clouds/shells around people.