Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia’s and Ukraine’s militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding.
      • clever_banana
        21·
        10 months ago

        No, they’d have nukes. Slash their budget by 99% then just make them do battle bots. It’ll still be the best show and save lives and maybe we can also give teachers and healthcare workers decent wages and pensions too.

    • 1984
      131·
      10 months ago

      Well yeah, may as well. The people who start wars are never risking their lives. Maybe it should be a game of battlebots between the leaders and the leader who loses dies?

      • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
        81·
        10 months ago

        That works from the aggressor, but the defender would often risk their lives to defend their home. Especially if the aggressor is likely to push a huge cultural value shift.

  • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    301·
    10 months ago

    Good

    Let’s just make all wars robots fighting robots, and nobody has to get killed.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    171·
    10 months ago

    Can we make it so that only robots fight robots? Straight up battle bots, Supreme Commander style action instead so that people aren’t dying.

  • clever_banana
    7·
    10 months ago

    Great news! Does this mean they can remove all the humans from the war zone now?

  • emmie@lemmy.ml
    6·
    10 months ago

    Ugh I hate all these subscription paywalls nowadays. Internet is so far from the initial ideals

    It’s pennies but if I had to track every subscription and there would be hundred… It should be covered at ISP somehow as optional news networktm

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      4·
      10 months ago

      Check your ISP might actually provide such packages. You might even already be benefiting from it but never used it.

      I’d prefer if WebMonetization would be more broadly adopted so that all participants in the chain get their share, even if pennies indeed it still would be right and does add up.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    51·
    10 months ago

    Essentially robots will become the front line and will front the attrition war. Once enemy robots tear through friendly robots they’ll go after any other friendly units, including human ones.

    Robots can’t tell soldiers from civilians, so they’ll act as area denial. You have five minutes to move a hundred meters back to a safe space after which robots will kill anything on this side of the red line. Lather, rinse, repeat until there’s no safe space left.

    Video of this would embarrass the international community, so for now we’ll have to garrison civilian centers with human beings, which is still messy. When we have robots that can garrison, then all-robot armies will become viable.