It's just a walking robot. Drones have been here for a lot longer and already carry deadly weapons. Following your logic, you should've been scared and running for years already.

Indeed; further, if we actually wanted something that could climb into your house and shoot you remotely without expending human life—we could have just stuck a turret to a cellphone to a police dog.

Robots are scary only because they allow for ubiquitous drone warfare—millions of drones just clogging the streets, or maybe small enough to hide in the shadows like stray pets. For targeted drone warfare, though, we've already had the technology for a long, long time.

Police departments already use robots with cameras and guns. But because they're small and have tank treads rather than legs no one seems worried about them.

To be fair, if you ask people in Yemen, 'scared and running' is probably exactly to the point.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-ye...

Halfway through the movie, when suddenly there are two of them, now this was creepy to me... like if the first one suddenly cloned effortlessly... and now both are happily hopping along, never tired, we're just harmless, funny guys, you know, your best friends!... <shudder>

Climbing the hill with their eye crazily spinning around!

No less scary than a human with a flamethrower deciding which humans are bad.

At least with the robot there's the potential for the excuse that it's gone wrong rather than wanting to kill people for whatever reason.

which is more frightening.

Oh, the robot did it. Great, like that is going to make it all okay. Fuck, drones have already allowed those in charge to excuse themselves from bad choices, now who are we going to blame? The programmer or the robot? I guess whomever ever has the least protection under the law, the robot certainly won't care

We don't have any military autonomous drones... there is pilot pulling the trigger... so I don't understand your point.

> Fuck, drones have already allowed those in charge to excuse themselves from bad choices

This has been happening since thousands of years before drones came along. Humans are used since the beginning of time..

Less scary than an automated or remote-controlled drone shooting a missile from a few kilometers away TBH. Easier to kill, too. Probably a lot cheaper to produce, too. And more effective.

Definitively creepy. I was thinking about the two legged robots in start wars, walker something or other.

It remind me at these enemies from Half Life 2 ep2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-tV7zOEPU