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Yer in one
Sounds extremely fishy. Those robo-dogs are expensive, they are slow - too slow to really act as couriers, and this is supposed to be Moscow - A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos, where you can’t get them at the next corner shop.
I can’t tell too much from the picture but I believe that’s a Chinese robot and China will ship to Russia from what I understand. And I’ve seen those as low as $1600 and anyone can order them online. It still sounds fishy maybe the cops want an excuse to get their own
yep china has several, my concern is the range on these are dogshit.
A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos
Chinese tech is not embargoed and, despite less cool videos, actually widely deployed.
That’s hilarious and I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to steal it to post.
This may be the coolest fucking thing ever
This is exactly the Cyberpunk we expected. Cyberpunk has never been shy about being a dystopia.
Practically the definition of the genre. It’s not typically “punk” if it’s a glistening utopia.
Using robots to do conduct black market trade under the nose of the police sounds extremely punk.
looking at these is disturbing me a little
It’s true that the muffins look like chihuahuas and vice versa.
This is EXACTLY the type of thing I expected from a cyberpunk dystopia
Right? Like did the creator of this image think more policing is less dystopian?
Militarized police, criminal syndicates using robots that destroy evidence when caught, to smuggle drugs, I don’t think this person knows what cyberpunk is
Nah, I’m kinda okay with that. Better than thought-crime surveillance Cyberpunk dystopia.
Why not both?
Why not skip the neon bright lights and just go straight to a full on 1984?
The 3 industries that will always have the money and be on the forefront of innovation:
not so much if we’d legalize drugs.
Something something big pharma…
Oh trust me… They would still have the money.
Im actually amazed that while we supposedly have robo dogs we still have photos so blurry that you cant see shit.
I mean it’s just matter of priority I suppose, if something is relatively cheap and effective there’s no need to invest into 4k or higher quality cameras. Especially when you don’t have the storage for a week of footage or few days that loop over each other. But that’s just my assumption, if 4k becomes the norm and storage gets bigger and cheaper we might see good quality security footage.
Counterpoint: 4k camera modules are getting rapidly cheaper, it’s standard in cell phones now. Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.
If 4k becomes the norm?
Where have you been living mate?
This would probably be cheaper to send over the border with drugs too.
I betcha its not too hard to put a faux skin on one of these to make it look like an actual animal, which from a distance would be potentially hard to tell apart from an real animal. As long as it’s used in the middle of nowhere,
It would probably be great for send drugs over remote parts of the border.
Wouldn’t a drone be cheaper and easier?
Easier to see and you can shoot it down from a distance more easily too.
To be honest I’m more worried because of Moscow than any robot dog.
Remember to tip your police officer and you’ll be fine.
Why?
Untraceable drug delivery? Sign me up
Doggo delivers mana powder until he gets head pats.
Cyberpunk we wanted
That’s awesome, I love drug dealing robo-dogs
Hi, is this robodog still available?
That’s odd.
I think most of the time they just use dead drops, it’s much safer.
Courier sticks drugs to a tree, walks away, sends a geo location of a drop to a buyer. Done.
Druggie just has to geolocate it, never meet in person.
HOW GET MONEY?
Paypal? Venmo? Monzo? Or in other words, with great ease…
What happened to the good old days when you got into the back of a car with a shady guy?
Thats for like 100 or less. Or for really risky dealers.
In this case the dystopia is the prohibition and storm troopers, not the robot dog.
This is why god invented automatic grenade launchers
It’s hard for me to believe this strictly because A) those things are fucking expensive, and B) aren’t they like …hella fucking fast??
They are not that fast. At least none that I’ve seen. I’d say they go like 10mph tops.
fr not encouraging anything illegal, buuut. The robot dog should only be used if the drone needs a place to stop mid way from the check point because of battery limitations or weather, as like a mobile outpost/command center to prevent easily spot able routing from places. Having the robo dog do the entire trip is quite wasteful on resources.
Bump, Ubu, bump. Good dog.
I was expecting this from quadcopters. I’d have thought they’d be more difficult to catch
Yeah but this was also advertising the service, a quadrocopter wouldn’t do that as good. If anything I’m surprised they are just sacrificing the robo dog considering how expensive those are.
Once the cops find it, there’s no stakeout-proof way to recover it.
The dog was a decoy
When can I get paid thousands of dollars to carry a USB drive 5 miles, assuming I manage to get away from a cybernetically enhanced Dolph Lundgren?
Robot Drug Delivery Dog is so much better than Robot NYPD Mass-Surveillance dog that I almost can’t express how happy this story makes me.
apnews.com/…/robot-dog-nypd-61bd64c94360e30f110f6…
The city’s first robot police dog was leased in 2020 by Adams’ predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city’s contract for the device was cut short after critics derided it as creepy and dystopian.
Adams said he won’t bow to anti-robot dog pressure.
Life finds a way.
OK that’ll be a discrete $50 handshake please… OK so just walk to that corner and wait. There will be a dog…
Next dog will have a concealed robotic cargo pouch and poops out the drugs
Next dog will probably shoot or electrocute the cops.
Based
Where? I want to see! Although… that would require talking to police. Nevermind.
Russian military has a pretty cool weapon. Armoured minitank packed with explosives that drives into buildings and then detonates. It is usually accompanied by a small camera air drone that provides visual info, on where to drive the minitank, or at least is there to show off the destruction.
That is a higher level of dystopia. But, self driving food delivery mini vehicle technology will become a tool of the resistance to the genocidal extermination of unneeded labour pool.
But production of drones takes about 18 years
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is most likely a joke. It’s not even confirmed it was drugs.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Moscow Police: Oh, silly me. Did I say packages? I meant package—singular. 😏
dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
What? Two packages?
One still? None left?
uis@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Envelope with text “bribe”. Empty.
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
i mean, those robots are like $50k a piece minimum right? and they’re not particularly fast. it wouldn’t make sense to use them as drug mules
kshade@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That doesn’t look like a Spot but one of the cheaper copies.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay, you can quit snorting that anthrax now