I have seen that movie.
Why humanoid? Wouldn’t some kind of weaponised insectoid be better?
Weaponized insectoid robots are called drones, they’ve already been buzzing around killing people for over a decade.
As for why they aren’t using insectoid/centaur-like frames for infantry models, I’m guessing the training data. There is a decent amount of human motion capture data, and an unfathomable amount of video of humans moving that could be converted into motion tracking data through AI image processing.
As such the AI that runs these robots could be trained on huge amounts of virtual information based on real life scenarios, vastly reducing the time the AI needs to pilot actual robot frames to get any good. That is the primary bottleneck, so it makes sense humanoid robots would appear before centaur ones.
Still, there are undoubtedly parts of the military-industrial complex making centaur robots or different body plans, they’re just not being rolled out in combat scenarios yet.
Ah neat!
Yeah, I just wonder if imitating the human form is the most effective way to the end goal. But as you said, they can probably feed it more data.
Plus according to the article it can do other things, like give of heat signatures so that, if one didn’t have eyes on, they wouldn’t know it’s a robot.
It doesn’t look like it can shoot. Can it?
From the original Time article:
The Phantom MK-1 S looks the part of an Al soldier. Encased in jet black steel with a tinted glass visor, it conjures a visceral dread far beyond what may be evoked by your typical humanoid robot. And on this late February morning, it brandishes assorted high-powered weaponry: a revolver, pistol, shotgun, and replica of an M-16 rifle.
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In February, two Phantoms were sent to Ukraine—initially for frontline-reconnaissance support. But Foundation is also preparing Phantoms for potential deployment in combat scenarios…However, the difference between holding a weapon and firing a weapon accurately is an ocean wide.
brandish
Yeah, it can brandish the gun, but can it shoot? :)
Of course it can, just don’t expect what it hits to correlate to what you might want it to hit.
Robot: I robot, I brandish, I brrrrrrr!
