How about large projectile nets? They used to use them for large wild animals and also for flocks of birds. I think it would be entertaining to see the two in the OP struggle to untangle from one of them, lol
August 18, 2021, 08:48 PM
parabellum
Everyone knows you'll have to nuke them from orbit.
It's the only way
August 20, 2021, 09:48 AM
Ryanp225
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Originally posted by parabellum: Everyone knows you'll have to nuke them from orbit.
It's the only way
This installationterminator factory has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
Elon Musk announced the latest frontier he’s aiming to conquer: humanoid robots
The irascible entrepreneur said Thursday he would have an initial prototype of an androgynous “Tesla Bot” by next year.
Based on the same technology as the company’s semi-autonomous vehicles, the robot will be able to perform basic repetitive tasks with the aim of eliminating the need for people to handle dangerous or boring work, Musk said at an online event on Tesla’s advances in artificial intelligence (AI).
“Tesla is arguably the world’s biggest robotics company because cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels,” he said. “It kind of makes sense to put that into a humanoid form.”
Musk pledged that his future robot would be a benign presence.
He said the Tesla Bot, which will have five-fingered hands and come in black and white, is intended to be “friendly” and built such that “you can run away from it and most likely overpower it.”
“Hopefully that won’t happen, but you never know,” he joked.
Musk - the second richest person in the world according to Forbes
August 20, 2021, 10:23 AM
parabellum
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Originally posted by sdy: Elon Musk announced the latest frontier he’s aiming to conquer: humanoid robots
We don't need weed-smoking robots, you loon.
What an incredibly annoying person this is. He's got an ego the size of Idaho. I wonder how many hours a day he spends standing in front of mirror.
AFAIC, he hasn't "conquered" jack shit.
August 20, 2021, 10:28 AM
architect
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androgynous “Tesla Bot”
WTF? If you are going to build something, shouldn't it be a "FemBot?" After all, Austin Powers has already shown us the way.
August 20, 2021, 10:51 AM
Graniteguy
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Originally posted by parabellum: You got thirty of those magnets? What makes you guys think these things won't come in a swarm?
“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown
August 20, 2021, 12:41 PM
Slippery Pete
My thoughts were how long until I have to try out a 7.62 on one of these. And why is my confidence not high.
50 might buy me a year or 2. Then they are the size of Humvies and no small arm available will touch it.
Gotta think bigger, need a trump card. Using the force against them. They need electricity. Can we short em out? Cattle prod? Lure them under power lines? Lightning weapons? Spray the ground at their feet with water and drop a hair dryer on it?
Need a serious grill guard on the truck too.
Maybe an Antifa laser to the eyes will turn them into good robots that fight for me?
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
January 19, 2023, 02:55 PM
HRK
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Originally posted by architect:
quote:
androgynous “Tesla Bot”
WTF? If you are going to build something, shouldn't it be a "FemBot?" After all, Austin Powers has already shown us the way.
Exactly, combine AI, A FemBot that you customize to your personal liking, and a FleshLight, if you could get them to cook and load a dishwasher we'd sell billions.....
January 19, 2023, 07:14 PM
1s1k
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Originally posted by 46and2: This video is clever CGI, but likely fortells the future just the same:
Once they started using CGI it ruined it for me. Instead of being impressed with their accomplishments I'm more like that's pretty cool for Hollywood.
January 19, 2023, 08:17 PM
Orguss
That video 46and2 posted is from an indie special effects studio. The robot is CGI-inserted over an actual human in a motion-capture suit. It's not meant to be a serious video like the Boston Dynamics ones.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
January 20, 2023, 05:37 AM
frayedends
I'm just as impressed at the Boston Dynamics video quality as the robot. I don't think my monitor has displayed anything quite so vivid. I actually thought the BD video was fake because it looks so crystal clear.
These go to eleven.
January 20, 2023, 05:48 AM
OttoSig
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Originally posted by parabellum: Perhaps no one else is concerned about the progress we see in that video, but I am.
I see the tools of a consciousless police force or invading army.
You'll need a deuce and a half to run them over. Bullets won't do it. By the time we get to that, they'll be the size of compact cars and then, there won't be any stopping them.
I've been prepping for zombies for the past 15 years...
Time to buy some industrial strength cattle prods.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting!
January 20, 2023, 05:54 AM
RichardC
They bear a striking resemblance to Robert Patrick.
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January 20, 2023, 09:32 AM
darthfuster
Are these EMP hardened?
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
January 20, 2023, 12:08 PM
Mercury
Maybe lighting them up with a paintball gun would block their sensors and give an opportunity to get close enough to remove the battery pack or disable them? ETA: or disable them.
