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Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers (fortune.com)
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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 95 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Even if you needed something mobile, it's not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

A camera on a roomba.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 109 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They don't need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was thinking the same thing. For surveillance, can't they just use the iconic Camera on Wall. Or if they want to get really advanced with the surrounding premises: Camera on Pole.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Camera on pole can't "remove" problems as quickly

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 6 points 15 hours ago

You don't need a robot dog to have a gun. If you really wanted to have a wall mounted camera with a gun on it, it would be just as easy.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think these can either, they don't list attack or defensive capabilities on the feature list that I saw, I assume this is just an over glorified video camera that can follow the intruder around.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Maybe not factory. But if Michael Reeves can teach one how to piss beer, I'm sure there's options on the market.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And use AI to actually monitor the thousand cameras. Ask me how I know.

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

How you know

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

With enough kinetic energy, anything's mobile.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

And no recharging time.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They're getting all these dystopian nightmare ideas from video games and scifi. People have proven you can sneak past these things inside of a cardboard box.

They are BEGGING for some metal gear carnage.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how many robot duds will be stolen per year? Lots of neat parts in them if you know some electronics.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Someone will be posting about a factory reset button within a year.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

If AI is in charge just ask them to write a time zone calculator in python or whatever.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

If your datacenter is mobile, you've really fucked up!