We need to build our own robot army that's open sourced and decentralized. Maybe it can all run on Linux lol
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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You think these things are running on Windows? Lol. I don't think you could get a picture of them all standing at the same time if they were.
No. The GPLv2 is too restrictive the only way forward is THE GNU HURD
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The GPLv2 is not restrictive enough in terms of allowing bad actors to circumvent it with DRM.
I mean, if Ukraine can make their own drones so can you.
However many robots you can build, they can build a thousand more.
Let's stick to protocol droids and astromechs... for now...
I'd rather destroy robots than kill humans in a fight for water.
The robots will guard the rich humans with water. So you will have to kill the robots first. You might have to kill humans second.
Billionaires aren't people
A highly agile, deadly accurate, inexhaustable enemy with more strength and less vulnerabilities?
Bruh whaaaaaaat
I see you've never gotten sand in a brushless motor, or seen how most of those robots move outside of a choreographed scene, or thought about their battery capacity. :)
All that aside, I think they were talking the morality of it.
10/10 I would rather fight one of those than a human.
Humans are quite durable, adaptive, and agile.
I twisted my ankle once doing a task I'd never done before. I adjusted my footing and carried on. Our current humanoid robots cannot adjust to something like that. They're just not designed in a way that makes them adaptable to changing physical layout.
I might be squishy, but I only have two places that are vulnerable to sand and they come with covers that usually work pretty well, and one of them is mostly redundant.
you spellt "big worthless chunk of metal" wrong :p
I will either be a veteran, or a casualty, of the Clanker Wars
"For The Republic!"
Lol no. They'll just hire some people to do it like they always have.
Create a fucked up world where a small handful of people control every resource. Everyone else has nothing. Give a few people a little more and they'll kill for it. Its never going to be robots, we'll be killing and be killed by our own kind.
We need to be fighting each other to survive so we don't have time to organise and fight them.
Given that it's Boston Dynamics, these are likely to be cop bots, making the reality even WORSE than OP's dystopian scenario 😬
For the amusement of the rich .003%...
Kinda feel like we need to start nipping this in the bud now.
agreed. time to people's army up.
Me picking up my spare slippers I am ready
chanclas ready
Kind of amazing how similar they are to the mechas (Metal Gears) in the Metal Gear series.
hm.. must be the sequal of a game I played when I was in your age, where the end boss looked less threatening:
water ®️
Joke's on you -- after you fight your way past the robots, you'll find that they deliberately poisoned the water on the way out, just so you couldn't have it.
Fun fact during WW2 in North Africa Axis and Allied troops thought they were poisoning the water supplies as they retreated. It was actually contaminated due natural crude oil runoff and had been documented as far back as the Roman empire the OG one not Mussolini's crack fic.
For a moment the thumbnail looked like an old Egyptian painting. Like a depiction of new metal gods. Almost philosophical.
This is (or was) the front lobby of their office. I used to work across the street from their old office, and actually got a tour of their labs a number of years ago. This is exactly what you saw when you walked in the door.
Just hack them, make 'em fight for you.
They are almost certainly going to be hard-coded to receive instructions or a keep-alive message directly from cloud servers, their telemetry and video streams will be processed on company servers as part of the contracts with the military, to keep an always-on service agreement in place. To prevent the DOD from doing the same, or foreign governments.
We are going to need to develop hardware disarming mechanisms, EMP guns and other things I won't be mentioning on a public forum.
Ya funny eh? They need water too... The datacenters that operate them need their cooling :P
Guess we need to make compact EMPs or something to take these things out 🤷♂️
I feel like a black powder weapon would be unironically good against these, like sure they would probably be armored for dealing with 5.56 ammo but what about grape shot?
"Hostile D.A.W.G inbound!"
Honestly terrifying.
I'll send a Chinese robot to fight your American robot
I recently learned to make traditional Balearic slings. I'm ready.
Not yucking anyone’s jum, but that’s a bit of a weird line up.
Throw a bundle of thick rope on them. That will stop them in their tracks.
This is why I have a stick with a piece of string attached on me at all times.
Hockey sticks don't work.
Neither does kicking them.
C'mon guys we need to narrow down their weakness!
I think I can take one of the bipeds. Their are agile but not that agile.
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