Ukraine said it took a Russian position using just drones and ground robots.

Zelenskyy said it was a wartime first, and no Ukrainian infantry was involved.

He said robots have done over 22,000 missions in three months, keeping many soldiers from harm.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Yeah… I really don’t like the changes that the Russian Invasion of Ukraine are making to war.

      Cheap Kamikaze drones, unmanned roving gun turrets, etc etc… Removing men on the ground feels like its gonna make it easier to pursue and lust for wars as these technologies continue to advance further and remove the human components.

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    21 days ago

    Can’t wait for one of them to be chasing me down for the crime of “thinking unfavorably about Peter Thiel”

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    Russian soldiers have been recorded surrendering to both aerial drones and ground robots in this war, including by writing messages of surrender that they presented to the operator via the onboard camera and surrendering after notes telling them to do so were dropped by drones.

    Surrendering to a machine sounds humiliating but still a better option than going back to the Russian military.

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    21 days ago

    As always, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    things are going to get really weird

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      21 days ago

      I really, honestly hope you are right. Sadly, I think you are wrong. I’ve recently been exposed to the concepts of “human safari” and “drone siege” and they aren’t pretty. “Drone on drone” might be just the preamble of these.

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        21 days ago

        No preamble, unfortunately. The Russians are doing these “human safaris”, which are, of course, clear as day war crimes, to train their drone pilots.

        Also to terrorize and wear out the civilian population of course, which is the Russian way of war.

        AI drones are coming along, but these won’t only be used on other drones or robots, that much we can know already.

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          21 days ago

          Indeed, I meant that in a hypothetical “drone vs drone” war, after the drones win the attacks on civilians and sieges will most likely come after.

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    21 days ago

    Well, the future looks bright enough. We may work to death in captailist states, but at least robots will fight each other, so no need for soldiers.