Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses

Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by EthanHeilman on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:16PM (#26625075)

In Syria and Iraq quadrotors with bombs were used pretty extensively, first by ISIL and then later by the Iraqi state. They were used to target small groups of infantry and vehicles [0].

In another case, small CoTS RC planes did significant damage to a Russian airbase in Syria [1].

[0]: Death From Above: The Drone Bombs of the Caliphate https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/02/10/death-drone-...

[1]: Russia Offers New Details About Syrian Mass Drone Attack, Now Implies Ukrainian Connection https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17595/russia-offers-ne...

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Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by simion314 on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:29PM (#26625268)

This big drones also make me anxious, the difference they did not popup on HN or my Youtube, the only drones I seen before today were the ones used for filming. So yeah an AI controlled large done with face recognition and machine guns also gives me chills, I am thinking that at this moment some military dudes are creating strategies to combine the dogs and drones to create a "police" force somewhere.

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Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by EthanHeilman on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:58PM (#26637114)

You don't need a machine gun. If you are using computer aiming and stabilization at close distances, it would almost never miss. A suppressed tube of subsonic .22lr would be quiet, accurate, and very light.

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