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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
combat-capable autonomous robots
does not necessarily imply "human-level intelligence capable of dealing with all of the situations that may arise once the shooting has stopped". Human ...
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
My comment was in jest, but actually contains an answer as well: these scout robots are not made for combat. And there is a huge range of reasons this might not be the case. A few broad examples:
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
Latency
Bots get commands, decrypt them, and then move, make telemetry and image data, encrypt them, and send the parcel back. Data is decrypted, then a human decides what to do next. As a result, all ...
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
The enemy can easily hack them and make them switch side.
Losing a scout to an enemy is a rather little damage, compared with giving them a monster attack machine. Better send human soldiers, which in ...
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
Some thoughts:
Weight
The robot carry various scouting tools, mapping tools, surveillance tools etc. and these are all heavy. This means that it doesn't have the capacity to carry any extra dedicated ...
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
If you make fighting robots which are 100% autonomous, getting offed by them will be a matter of time.
Humans are needed because humans call the shots. The day humans stop calling the shots is the day ...
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
The governing Computer Council has put forth an edict that only humans will be sent into combat against human soldiers, so as to preserve the loss of robot life since human can heal and self-replicate,...
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
Scouts are specialized functions. You program the scout to do that and nothing else. This produces a robot that is very poorly suited to do anything else.
So why not make a specialized battle bot? ...
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