Its more an issue of engineering. Flying drones typically use the same sorts of movement a normal plane or helicopter does. So it was easy to transition them. We are still working on creating ground based drones that dont rely on wheels or treads, but those are coming. Robots with the same type of movement ability as a human, or any other animal for that matter are entirely doable. We just have to work on
- Engineering them, and
- Powering them. Movement through air is much less energy intensive. Ground based ones use energy anytime they move, and more of it.
Im expecting we will eventually have wars with no humans soldiers involved directly at all, and it’ll be coming a lot sooner then you might expect.
Humanoid robot drones can also be controlled remotely by human soldiers. Which would allow highly skilled special forces units to go on suicide missions with no actual bodily risk. Just remotely controlling their robots through a complex VR setup.
So here’s the thing about that: Those are expensive as fuck.
I can get an aerial drone off Alibaba, strap a bunch of C4 and nails on it for like $50 and we’re done and dusted. I don’t have to be a special forces operator. I just have to be able to fly a drone close enough to nail-bomb a bunch of dudes from a cozy remote control center. If I fuck up, well, there’s 10,000 more drones I can remote into. They’re cheap. No need to pay Boston Dynamics $300,000 per unit. I got that Alibaba hook-up.
Warfare is rapidly becoming pointless. What’s the ultimate end game? A bunch of drones versus a bunch of drones? What’s the point? I would like to think that this would make humanity realize the fruitlessness of warfare, but I’m not that naive. We’ll all go along with it. Why wouldn’t we? We’re all idiots.
I can get an aerial drone off Alibaba, strap a bunch of C4 and nails on it for like $50 and we’re done and dusted.
I hate to post this on the internet, but I wish I knew how to do all of that.
I mean I could figure out how to buy a drone online (is it really that cheap?). Then I think I need to get a drone license to fly 'em around as practice. But I’d have no idea how to make the C4 nail-bomb or where to get the stuff for it.
