Yer in one
This is most likely a joke. It hasn’t been confirmed if the powder is/ were drugs.
https://112.ua/en/po-moskvi-rozguluvav-robopes-narkokurer-48225
“After inspection, it was found that the packages the robot was carrying contained a powder resembling illegal substances.”
“After inspection, it was found that the packages the robot was carrying contained a powder resembling illegal substances.”
Moscow Police: Oh, silly me. Did I say packages? I meant package—singular. 😏
What? Two packages?
One still? None left?
Envelope named “bribe”. Empty.
i mean, those robots are like $50k a piece minimum right? and they’re not particularly fast. it wouldn’t make sense to use them as drug mules
That doesn’t look like a Spot but one of the cheaper copies.
Just some brief searching shows me you can get them for under $1000 these days. It might actually be cost-effective.
At that rate, you could use them as patrolling watch dogs too. Have one bot with the drugs, the others all just watch.
Okay, you can quit snorting that anthrax now
Sounds extremely fishy. Those robo-dogs are expensive, they are slow - too slow to really act as couriers, and this is supposed to be Moscow - A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos, where you can’t get them at the next corner shop.
I can’t tell too much from the picture but I believe that’s a Chinese robot and China will ship to Russia from what I understand. And I’ve seen those as low as $1600 and anyone can order them online. It still sounds fishy maybe the cops want an excuse to get their own
yep china has several, my concern is the range on these are dogshit.
Dogshit
Lol
Not to mention the Russian police uniform doesn’t look like that.
Depends
I stand corrected!
A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos
Chinese tech is not embargoed and, despite less cool videos, actually widely deployed.
Reminds me of this meme
That’s hilarious and I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to steal it to post.
This may be the coolest fucking thing ever
This is exactly the Cyberpunk we expected. Cyberpunk has never been shy about being a dystopia.
Practically the definition of the genre. It’s not typically “punk” if it’s a glistening utopia.
Using robots to do conduct black market trade under the nose of the police sounds extremely punk.
Who’s a good boy?
going to post this to VCJ
Wait, there’s a VCJ on lemmy?
Yes. And there’s a vegan lemmy (.vg)
Turns out, I’m already subbed to the .world instance.
Whats vcj?
it’s a place for vegans to make low-effort humor
Oh, vegan circlejerk?
looking at these is disturbing me a little
It’s true that the muffins look like chihuahuas and vice versa.
Nah, I’m kinda okay with that. Better than thought-crime surveillance Cyberpunk dystopia.
Why not both?
Why not skip the neon bright lights and just go straight to a full on 1984?
I see your communist plot to combat light pollution. The sky must be filled with lights from advertisements or else you wouldn’t know about the products that we already advertise on your phone and in your dreams. Stay in line citizen.
I’m beyond the point where the casual anti-soviet jab strikes me as funny.
The only difference between Cyberpunk & our current dystopia is full-dive VR, the neon lights are optional.
Yeah or 1984 with neon lights and drugs robot dogs
Or what about drugs robot dogs on cyberdrugs?
This is EXACTLY the type of thing I expected from a cyberpunk dystopia
Right? Like did the creator of this image think more policing is less dystopian?
Militarized police, criminal syndicates using robots that destroy evidence when caught, to smuggle drugs, I don’t think this person knows what cyberpunk is
The 3 industries that will always have the money and be on the forefront of innovation:
- Military
- Drugs
- Porn
- Ads
not so much if we’d legalize drugs.
Something something big pharma…
Oh trust me… They would still have the money.
This would probably be cheaper to send over the border with drugs too.
I betcha its not too hard to put a faux skin on one of these to make it look like an actual animal, which from a distance would be potentially hard to tell apart from an real animal. As long as it’s used in the middle of nowhere,
It would probably be great for send drugs over remote parts of the border.
Wouldn’t a drone be cheaper and easier?
Easier to see and you can shoot it down from a distance more easily too.
The ruskies should be extra nervous about drones these days too.
“Is drugs? Or about to blow a spire off the kremlin?
Im actually amazed that while we supposedly have robo dogs we still have photos so blurry that you cant see shit.
I mean it’s just matter of priority I suppose, if something is relatively cheap and effective there’s no need to invest into 4k or higher quality cameras. Especially when you don’t have the storage for a week of footage or few days that loop over each other. But that’s just my assumption, if 4k becomes the norm and storage gets bigger and cheaper we might see good quality security footage.
Counterpoint: 4k camera modules are getting rapidly cheaper, it’s standard in cell phones now. Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.
Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.
Those are different gyroscopes. Big spinning disk != MEMS gyro.
Nice, didn’t know that. Now just the storage but that’s matter of time or maybe it already is. The biggest probably is getting all the cameras upgraded but that also just needs time I assume.
If 4k becomes the norm?
Where have you been living mate?
To be honest I’m more worried because of Moscow than any robot dog.
Remember to tip your police officer and you’ll be fine.
Why?
Doggo delivers mana powder until he gets head pats.
Cyberpunk we wanted
Untraceable drug delivery? Sign me up
Trivially traceable. Just follow the dog (discretely).
Ugh, I hate those missions.
At least it’s better than defend the dog missions.
That’s awesome, I love drug dealing robo-dogs
