DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes

[Endymio]

Billions of robots the size of germs would do more damage than thousands of mosquito sized robots ... We do not have the technology for either of these things.

Your first suggestion sounds remarkably like Covid.

 

[JamesBlond]

All you need is a frequency jammer to make it go completed dead in the water.

 

[mbrowne5061]

.. This is a large reason why the US is recommissioning the battle ships...

Source? Only info I could find was about the DDG(X) program, which is another guided missile destroyer meant to come after the Flight III Burkes. Unless you meant Zumwalt? Which was originally envisions as a replacement for the Battleships after their were decommissioned for a second time, but the class got cut from something like ~32x ships to ~3x ships due to LHM lobbying - because they didn't get the contract, so they pitched the Flight III Arleigh Burkes, and then said "well, why are you buying different kinds of DDGs? And if you're going to keep just one, it should be the "proven" one (even though the Flight IIIs are effectively a new ship compared to the Flight IIs)

 

[mbrowne5061]

All you need is a frequency jammer to make it go completed dead in the water.

It's autonomous. It doesn't need to send nor receive to perform its mission, so frequency jamming would be inconvenient at best for this platform. That's the whole point.

 

[WhoCaresAnymore]

Lots of cows to plough over in Texas...

That's a sad comment. But I think there is some merit to those stating that the gov't is doing it's best to manipulate the food supply.

All about control.

 

[mbk34]

It's not worth the effort going for autonomous tanks as navigating terrain is very challenging and the vehicles are too easy to take out. In the video it was just going in a straight line over whatever was in front of it without making any decisions - they might as well of just used a normal tank and put a brick on the accelerator pedal (or however they work). It would be far more worthwhile going for autonomous drones and using ML to identify targets in a given area. The real challenge is getting them to fire at enemy soldiers and not at civilians etc. Or getting legal approval.

 

[Kelligan]

I’m all for letting the robots to the ugly work. My main thought is,” Are we ahead of the competition in stage of development/eventual deployment? I see this tech becoming mainstream before end of decade!

 

[Dimitrios]

Thousands of robots the size of mosquitoes would do more damage and be of greater strategic value in changing the course of a war than those ill-fated tanks

I'm more worried about Ukraine Bio Labs.

 

[Bamda]

Call of Duty: Future Wars!

 

[astralcyborg]

Skynet approved