If this was China where it wasn’t being used for evil purposes I would say this is cute and wholesome. But given it’s the USA and it’s patrolling black neighborhoods…throw it in traffic.
depressing thought: these UGVs are remote-piloted and cost about the same to operate as an actual security guard, so in practice they just represent the dual application of enshittification AND outsourcing and provide nothing that a real person wouldn’t provide except security vulnerabilities.
Benn Jordan has a new video where he gets one of these and hacks it. They are incredibly insecure and one could conceivably get one and program it to roam around and hack other robot dogs and assemble an army.
There’s more in the video about how they connect to servers in China. Normally I’d suspect it’s fear mongering, but it does seem like the company spent nearly zero effort to protect the hardware from hacking and tons of effort to prevent someone from figuring out they phone home.
The phoning home thing is incredibly funny because it’s absolutely meant to be a failsafe in case the US tries to use these for war lol. Which they’re already doing…
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I wonder if you could mess with them by sticking magnets to them or if that only works with old technology
In the comments they mention how easy it is to pull the battery out of these things.
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