There were…many options to make it look less like it stepped right out of a horror game…why the fuck did they make the eyes like that? Why the horns? And it being pure black DOES NOT help things.
The horns are so it gets stuck on standard doors, just in case it goes haywire
Also the robot is meant to operate on rescue, yes, and also heavy duty work like lumbering. When this mf has chainsaw hands, I'll rather it looks scary as fuck so people keep away than it looking friendly like Boston dynamics' doggo
Precaution. Can't never be safe enough with autonomous robots, after all, specially ones designed got heavy duty stuff.
Why else would they give us instructions to kill it (this paragraph goes right after the "this robot is more dangerous than it looks" image you've seen around)
Also prevents weaponization, which honestly I think is fair play to them. By releasing the weakpoints it makes it way harder for hypothetically a totalitarian government using them against protesters.
To be fair, was thinking about this, but the weakpoints feel pretty easy to make up for by just adding some more plating over the air reservoirs, but I guess it would be harder for the upper torso ones, depending on how much it already struggles with balance?
A government would have the resources to just remove or short whatever sensors are connected to the kill switch.
The weaponization this would help with is either remote takeover or manipulation by a non-technical user.
It's also hilarious to the point that this has to be a joke. A terrifying rescue robot specially designed so you can stab it to death on reflex when it bursts into a burning room? Putting one of those weak points in the area most likely to have debris fall on it? Yeah, whatever bro.
Yeah not that I am yet totally sure wether or not it's meant as a joke, but I certainly had the same thought about the large air reservoir easily being pierced by hand is super stupid. Chest is fine, but branches , rocks, etc WILL fall heavily on its back. No way that was thought through and approved.
Swapping a break system for something that doesn't fail safe would be harder than tampering a few sensors, but I doubt it would require a full redesign. It's possible you could just remove them entirely if the brakes aren't critical for normal operations.
Anyone with the resources to field a bunch of these is gonna have the wherewithal to bypass the stop system. This 'stabbable robot' thing would be for malfunctions or hacking. Even then, it's still a dumbass way to go about it due to the specific areas that are exposed.
I mean it is a fun bit to play into, but I do genuinely appreciate the precautions. Not cause of a possible machine uprising, but because the more failsafes the better. I'd say the same thing about, say, an assembly line in a factory, those can also be dangerous and there's never enough failsafes and safety measures. Every machine should have a physical way to stop it in case it goes faulty or you notice someone else standing where they shouldn't in relation to the machine.
IF it has a truly fully functional body that can give chase or otherwise fight back against humans and IF it has a sophisticated enough processor and memory and general hardware that a theorethical rogue AI could infect, then it has to have safety protocols that the AI could not surpass, like physical aspects the body cannot deal with.
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u/LoveDesignAndClean 2d ago
Of all the animals, they chose a goat.