juicy@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agoMassachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshedwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down110cross-posted to: andfinally
arrow-up159arrow-down1external-linkMassachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshedwww.theguardian.comjuicy@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agomessage-square27fedilinkcross-posted to: andfinally
minus-squareArugulaZ@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down3·7 months agoThose things aren’t like the K9 unit in the C.O.P.S. cartoon, or even like Goddard in Jimmy Neutron. They’re terrestrial drones. Comparing them to dogs is either incredibly generous to them or incredibly insulting to the dogs.
minus-squareAggravationstationlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoOr incredibly ingratiating to what will likely become a mobile weapons platform.
Those things aren’t like the K9 unit in the C.O.P.S. cartoon, or even like Goddard in Jimmy Neutron. They’re terrestrial drones. Comparing them to dogs is either incredibly generous to them or incredibly insulting to the dogs.
Or incredibly ingratiating to what will likely become a mobile weapons platform.