So when your designated bro-bot joins your squad in the trench, what kinda of roles are you going to give it? Sentry detail seems like an obvious role. It'll never fall asleep and won't have to suffer through harsh weather conditions the same way a human might while trying to stay awake all night. They'd also make good point men, have them kicking in doors and clearing rooms. Having them act as medics to help people in combat zones seems like an obvious choice as well.On a more personal level, would you dress them up? Give them names? Or would you be more detached and treat it like a piece of kit? I don't think individual units would have advanced onboard AI. I figure a bulk of their processing is handled by a control hub nearby, but that connection might be disrupted by ECMs, so some onboard AI might need to act as a backup.
>>65038112Pack mule.
>>65038169I've seen tracked/wheeled drones carrying troops and supplies, so I feel like the more long-range version of that is covered. I suppose humanoid bots with legs might be able to traverse terrain that such drones could not.
>>65038112Why limit yourself to the shitty human form? The most humanoid combat robots would get is bipedal with wheels for feet like boston dynamics robot “handle”. Slap a turret with good elevation/depression on top so the bot can go prone and then attach an utility arm to the rear and voila you got a killer robot that can enter most buildings and is smaller, faster, and more durable than any generic android could ever hope to be. Humanoid robots are useless on the battlefield…unless you go ALL the way and make the robots indistinguishable from a human and load them up with reconnaissance gear, hidden guns, poison daggers, ai recreated personalities of enemy loved ones, and c4 strapped bones. Then you got a potent assassination weapon.
>>65038112Humanoid robots are fucking stupid. The tech is 80+ years behind that. You "tech" dumbasses still think Tesla cars have real "autopilot". Any automata ground combat units you'll see until then won't look like people in any way.
>>65038602>Humanoid robots are fucking stupid.not necessarily. the environments they will fight in (urban areas) are designed for human proportions and human interactions; your crazy spider bot whatever thing may be mathematically efficient but if it can't fit through a door frame, or enter a vehicle to be inserted into the op zone, or open a gate, it's of limited use
>>65038112Is that the robot from Black Ops 3 that rips your arms off and beats you into a coma?
>>65038644What if it's a small and cute spider bot?
>>65038644If urban areas are where its expected to be used just make it ADA compliant.
>>65038666broke: nonsense because they won't be used to fight in america woke: when the civil war inevitable begins Elon Musk will deploys 100000s of armed Optimus bots
>>65038644Ah. One of the fantasy people. Robots have not only been designed to fit through a doorframe for the past 20 years, but down the aisle of a commercial aircraft. But that's not what you're advocating. There is equipment for every imaginable scenario, sport. You want an omniperfect solution for all types of problems. It's not coming in your lifetime, or mine.
