It was a cross between a robot and a dog with a snake-like head. The movements were very similar to how a dog would move too. Technology is advancing very quickly and shooting off in so many directions…wow.
I’ve said for a while now, we should be going all in on research on a non-lethal replacement for guns. The objective is to incapacitate someone in self-defense, no reason that has to mean killing them.
What sometimes happens is the military will take a promising technology and compartmentalize the whole thing… severing it from the unclassified starting point and even splitting up the development team so that they cannot even talk to one another about about the technology. So the classified team will benefit from what they see in the unclass side but not vice versa.
At the time I saw the biped doing backflips, I figured that it happened no later than that time. No later.
Personally, while intrigued at the possibilities and the research opportunities, I think it’s scary.
There was once a big and open development of non-lethal weapons. I worked on one. But we had Geneva convention limitations. It was literally more legal in a combat situation to use a 50 caliber shot to the head than to use this nonlethal weapon.
The nonlethal weapons is still useful for minimizing collateral damage in the canonical marketplace shooter scenario though.
I think most of that stuff is locked up in classification now.
Yeah I guess there are some serious ramifications to devices that could render someone, or many someone’s unconscious with the push of a button, even if it had no other side effects.