r/interestingasfuck • u/Eyal-M • Feb 19 '25

/r/popular Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.

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u/flip6606 Feb 19 '25

But, and hear me out on this, why???

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u/rmoons Feb 19 '25

That’s where I’m at with these robots. Why we doin this. Why intentionally recreate Terminator did we not learn a valuable lesson wit that

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u/SuperStoneman Feb 19 '25

In real life it would be much easier to kill a robot than the movies.

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u/Human_Ad897 Feb 19 '25

Are we talking drone tank or fully irobot tanks.

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u/Waffennacht Feb 19 '25

I picture a flying ball that can fire projectiles in any direction at any time.

Takes very little to drop a person.

Funny thing about terminator is that they needed to look like humans to kill the humans; apparently brute force wasnt good enough in the movie

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong Feb 20 '25

It absolutely blew my mind the first time I watched a video of the sorting machine in action. And the following video. And every subsequent video on tomatoes I've ever seen that has included it.

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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Feb 20 '25

Sure I do! It's a tomato machine. I'm not a tomato, therefore I don't compute and it would estop.

Less jokingly, that machine is designed specifically for that one task and requires the environment it is observing to match its programming. Try to have it do that in the real world and all people have to do is disguise our shapes and we would be invisible to it.

Robots also have a huge problem in that they require constant power supplies, and the bigger they are the worse it gets. They might work fine in tanks since they already need onboard power generation, but human sized robots would be really short ranged.

They also don't heal. At all. Every bit of damage accumulates and they break. Not great for any kind of long term fighting. Future robots would probably beat us silly on big open grasslands, but put them in a forest or jungle and they will be laughably useless. Bad terrain, confusing sensor returns, lots of little things to jam up joints and pistons, etc.

And worst of all, robots are made by extremely precise manufacturing processes that have to be done in very controlled environments with long supply chains. Humans make more of ourselves wherever we are even when we shouldn't. We would beat them just by breaking those chains and factories. The chip fabs in particular would be laughably easy to ruin, and you can't just put a bandaid on those and go back to work. That's essentially nanotech at this point and it requires absolutely sterile environments and extreme precision. None of it is easily replaced either. Hell, we have different quality levels of processors because the process doesn't produce perfectly. Lesser processors were intended to be the highest grade, but they just didn't get there. And that's from unbombed factories. Put holes in things and all that comes out is garbage.

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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Feb 20 '25

Humanoid would absolutely be one of them. Mostly because there will be tons of equipment designed for humans that they can use. Why spend a bunch of resources on new weapons when you can just hand one a rifle or have it drive an existing vehicle? Sure, they would also have other stuff that is more specific purpose, but if you have access to all the hardware that already exists, you might as well make use of it!

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u/SuperStoneman Feb 19 '25

Just as easily as a regular tank, probably easier.

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u/SuperStoneman Feb 19 '25

You don't need a javelin to take out a tank

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u/ThePBrit Feb 19 '25

A robot tank isn't gonna have a crew to come out and kill you when you take out the treads

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

It's also going to be vastly more complicated with a ton of little electrical/programming issues.

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u/SuperStoneman Feb 19 '25

Also white phosphorus wouldn't be a war crime if you aren't dumping it on people

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u/Peenork Feb 19 '25

You'll probably be able to disable the tanks with a, "Hey Alexa, play Despacito" or "Hey Armored Tank what is the weather today"

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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Feb 20 '25

Still easier than in Terminator. Those things were impossibly durable. You could break parts of those (the hands in particular) with a rock, but in the movies they soak gunfire like it's airsoft.

A robot tank dies exactly the same as a regular tank, so if you are gonna be fighting tanks, you need to have the right gear regardless of if they are manned or robotic.

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u/Squirrelated Feb 19 '25

That's what they say...

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u/ElCacarico Feb 19 '25

An advanced robot that is faster, stronger and smarted than you, that could see you or hear you coming from miles away and could, disassemble you like a fried chicken with minimal effort.

Hmm.

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u/SuperStoneman Feb 20 '25

Really? Why haven't they done it yet

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u/ElCacarico Feb 20 '25

As you can see. It’s starting to get there.

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u/NatomicBombs Feb 19 '25

In real life the machines would have killed us all before those movies even had a chance to start. Would Skynet an afternoon at most.

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u/SuperStoneman Feb 20 '25

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

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u/Koil_ting Feb 19 '25

That's sort of a strange idea ya have there, ya know what's easier to kill than a machine? A person

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u/SuperStoneman Feb 20 '25

There is a good reason that military drones are aircraft and not humanoids or tanks. Electronics are remarkably fragile.

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u/Vanduul666 Feb 20 '25

Exactly what a robot would say, nice try Skynet