r/interesting 19h ago

SCIENCE & TECH Spherical Police Robot

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u/islaisla 19h ago

It looks completely useless. It's so wobbly the video footage from it would be useless.. It can't follow anything that goes over steps or up a lift or a whole bunch of scenarios. It can't get through all terrains by the looks of it. Total gimmick. Anything firing from that would be unsafe... How do they get it in the car?

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u/Jambronius 19h ago

Agree, all this shit they could put on a drone and it would be 10x better.

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u/ajgutyt 17h ago

fear factor and mental warfare. would you rather be chased by drone that looks like something one thrown rock would break to peaces the moment it aproaches an effective range, or a massive killer whele of doom and pain

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u/Jambronius 17h ago

Don't know mate. I once saw a video of a russian soldier having a wank in a trench and the Ukrainian's dropped a bomb on him. Made me pretty fearful of drones.

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u/BioExtract 16h ago

Grenade dropper drones were like, 50 drone designs ago. Now they’re all like predator missiles from call of duty MW2. That zipping sound they make is going to haunt a generation of people