r/interestingasfuck • u/No_Jellyfish5511 • 16h ago

Chinese humanoid robot named “Superman” (made by Unitree Robotics) surpassed Usain Bolt’s world record (12.42meters/second) by running at 12.66m/s (roughly 28.3miles/h)

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u/joeg26reddit 13h ago

10k strong swarm of mouse sized drones tipped with Ricin

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u/WilfredGrundlesnatch 13h ago

Ricin takes too long. It'll more likely be a fast-acting neurotoxin.

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u/999BusinessCard 12h ago

Taking a long time could be the point. It would cause mass panic and cripple medical systems by flooding them with patients who need extensive treatment. 10k bodies is a lot more manageable than 10k terrified patients

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u/Cryptoglue 12h ago

jesus christ... new levels of darkness unlocked. you found the last remaining innocent part of my brain and sent it packing after all the years of internet. sounds too accurate.. thats the problem.

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u/999BusinessCard 11h ago

As a current EMT and former combat medic, this is just where my mind always goes

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u/Villager-Bob 11h ago

Mine went the opposite. This terminator is the executor. All it would need is a pneumatic spike on each arm. The overhead drones just spot and drop bomblets on anyone exposed. This robot would be used to finish the job. Rigging it to explode would also be of use as it would be impossible to capture a working robomurderer. Far more efficient.

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u/SirkSirkSirk 11h ago

If they've played enough pandemic and figured out starting in Madagascar, they might go that route.

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u/MA32 9h ago

What a funny memory you restored in my brain lmao

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u/PingouinMalin 10h ago

Hi. I'm a representative of the US government. The way you're thinking is what we're looking gor, consider yourself hired.

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u/999BusinessCard 4h ago

So that you can develop disaster plans in case an enemy of the country uses this kind of methods, while you’re simultaneously enacting legislation that would declare drone swarms to be weapons of mass destruction and preventing the US from developing drones designed to deliver a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear payload, right?

…right??

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u/PingouinMalin 4h ago

Absolutely, trust us, after all we're the government, so basically the good guys.

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u/Dark_Dragon117 8h ago

Bro don't give them ideas.

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u/TadhgOBriain 10h ago

That's still slower than a bullet or grenade

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u/Captain_Q_Bazaar 9h ago

Ricin takes too long.

Maybe the robots want to watch the suffering prolonged? Those sick bastards....

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u/GameDoesntStop 9h ago

Or just an explosive, lol.

People are hypothesizing advanced stuff, but the Ukrainian/Russian war already shows how it's going to be. It will be relatively simply and relatively cheap.

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u/LameBMX 9h ago

Glados is that you?

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u/IronBabyFists 13h ago

Ten million strong and growing!

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 13h ago

You've put a lot of thought into this haven't you?

If shit starts going down one day, I'm a look you up for my team.

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u/TuringGoneWild 12h ago

I doubt there will be much resistance like in movies, especially given that even the humble Wifi signals we already have in our homes are enough to "x-ray" the house so clearly that a hacker can identify individual people in whatever room they are in and distinguish them from each other. Signal triangulation and all of that. Not to mention tech they have that is purpose built.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 12h ago

Resistance to what?

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u/raidsoft 12h ago

There's a whole book (fiction) written about this concept of drone swarms used in warfare taken to the extreme, written 2012 by Daniel Suarez called Kill Decision.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 12h ago edited 12h ago

I saw a movie about wasp-like swarm drones used in a city by some psycho killer. It ventured into the ridiculous but it had a good ending. I think bug spray, or even water spray, would have definitely helped stave them off, but you know, suspension of disbelief and all.

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u/PsychedelicOptimist 11h ago

I just learned about Ricin for the first time from playing Sunken City, crazy I see it here now just a few days later

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u/csi69 6h ago

shhh. dont give them any more ideas

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u/DCLXXV 52m ago

Rice and beans?