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Robot Drug Delivery Dog is so much better than Robot NYPD Mass-Surveillance dog that I almost can’t express how happy OP makes me.
https://apnews.com/article/robot-dog-nypd-61bd64c94360e30f110f65626cc1687c
The city’s first robot police dog was leased in 2020 by Adams’ predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city’s contract for the device was cut short after critics derided it as creepy and dystopian.
Adams said he won’t bow to anti-robot dog pressure.
It’s hard for me to believe this strictly because A) those things are fucking expensive, and B) aren’t they like …hella fucking fast??
They are not that fast. At least none that I’ve seen. I’d say they go like 10mph tops.
Quadcopters would be more efficient financially and more reliable. Probably faster too.
fr not encouraging anything illegal, buuut. The robot dog should only be used if the drone needs a place to stop mid way from the check point because of battery limitations or weather, as like a mobile outpost/command center to prevent easily spot able routing from places. Having the robo dog do the entire trip is quite wasteful on resources.
This guy efficiently drug deals.
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
I was expecting this from quadcopters. I’d have thought they’d be more difficult to catch
Yeah but this was also advertising the service, a quadrocopter wouldn’t do that as good. If anything I’m surprised they are just sacrificing the robo dog considering how expensive those are.
Once the cops find it, there’s no stakeout-proof way to recover it.
Unless the robo dog doubled as a drone to make a quick getaway, it’s just plainly an expensive walking mistake
The dog was a decoy
Untraceable drug delivery? Sign me up
Trivially traceable. Just follow the dog (discretely).
Ugh, I hate those missions.
Reminds me of this meme
That’s hilarious and I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to steal it to post.
That’s awesome, I love drug dealing robo-dogs
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?
Im actually amazed that while we supposedly have robo dogs we still have photos so blurry that you cant see shit.
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 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.
That’s odd.
I think most of the time they just use dead drops, it’s much safer.Courier sticks drugs to a tree, walks away, sends a geo location of a drop to a buyer. Done.
Druggie just has to geolocate it, never meet in person.
HOW GET MONEY?
Paypal? Venmo? Monzo? Or in other words, with great ease…
I’d be uneasy with electronically transferring funds for illicit drugs, cash seems wiser.
Why, though? You send on paypal as friends and family. You dont get taxed on that kind of transfer and i doubt it is being audited.
There is a level of trust you have to assume between a drug dealer and the customer. You retaining customers is all done on reputation. If you try to cheat your customers, they will all go elsewhere. There is a lot of incentive for dealers to run their “business” well and keep customers happy.
Cash means you need to meet face to face. This is far more risky. When i was younger and smoking weed, it was all face to face, meet someone somewhere and trade there. Or a car pulls up and you have a little chat and swap money for the bag. But this was dodgey. It was risky. It eneded up in arrests more often than you think.
Towards to end of my pot head days, it was all telegram to put orders in, delivered by royal mail via recorded delivery and money tranferred with an app as i mentioned above. This is more private than you think.
Although admittedly i never did this sort of transaction, everyone i know who was/is still smoking/vaping is doing it this way.
How does the dealer get the cash without potentially exposing their location?
Yes, indeed. Hence the earlier, “HOW GET MONEY?” someone so eloquently asked in relation to this dead drop method. You could arrange your own dead drop for the dealer’s payment I guess, or stuff the money in to the same tree. It’s all a bit fraught, and requires you both to trust each other even more than a deal normally would. The system seems to be pretty flawed. Guess it works of you’re happy to leave an indelible record of you transacting with this person and if you trust them to actually put the goods there rather than just take the money since you’ll never see them and have no recourse.
This is a solved problem on darknet markets. They use crypto and have reviews/escrow like Ebay. The only difference is they mail you the drugs instead of leaving it somewhere.
For “other”
What happened to the good old days when you got into the back of a car with a shady guy?
Thats for like 100 or less. Or for really risky dealers.
100 what? USD? If so, I used to routinely buy around that amount back when I was a cokehead and I still did it by getting in the back of the car. Perhaps it’s just different cultures. I can’t even imagine myself picking drugs from a tree (?)
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.
Bump, Ubu, bump. Good dog.
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. 😏
Envelope named “bribe”. Empty.
What? Two packages?
One still? None left?
Can’t have shit on mars when you are a postman.
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
