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Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money
I'd love to see one captured then injected with expanding foam aka the speed camera treatment.
Snare one, wrap it in some kind of faraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.
You didn't even need to do that. You can pull the battery packs off pretty easily. These are very easy to disable, and due to the fact they aren't nimble, they can't get away from you.
Reprogram it to hunt billionaires instead.
Just like the T-800 and K2-SO. Reprogram all the droids.
Or to destroy a data center.
Send it back on the post to hunt the baby tech bros.
A half cube metal shipping container could very easily be modified to work as a faraday cage. Or even a Trash cash.
Faraday nets are fucking genius.
I mean, that won't really work. It dampens the signal, not eliminates it, and in order to block communications, you need a net width small enough to block 1/4 wavelength which is 5cm/4, so <1 cm holes with a material thick enough for the damping.
That would be a net that weighs like 20kg lol and it would essentially be a solid cage at that point
Not to mention that it would have to fully encompass them.
Better to just use a signal jammer like they do for drones.
How dare you shatter my dreams and then reinvigorate them with a solution
With a just a few just large enough neodymium magnets.
No signal, no movement, no data.
Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.
Don't be wasteful.
Take them for parts.
Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.
Reprogram it and send it back in time to protect John Connor
they'd be great vectors for infiltration.
Counterfeit. Duplicate. Replica.