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Spot is also purely optical, meaning paint, dust, a sheet or blanket, sticky tape, etc can severely impair it.

Original stereo cameras on the face. 360 camera, pan/tilt/zoom cam, and LIDAR rangefinders on accessory rails.
If you're feeling creative, and can prepare beforehand, Spot is literally just controlled with an Android tablet. In manual (as in, non-autonomous) mode, Spot is literally just communicating over Wifi.

A WiFi jammer based on an ESP2866 is $40 on Amazon, just sayin.
There are, of course, military versions in the works that probably get rid of most of these vulnerabilities but police departments are buying the civilian ones just cause they can.

The quick-change batteries, safety cutout, wifi control, etc make plenty of sense for the ADVERTISED usage cases of disaster recovery, warehousing, power plant maintenance, HAZMAT, EOD, etc as this isn't even supposed to get within 2 meters of anyone while running.
Throwback article.

"We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was,” Dallas police chief David Brown told reporters.

“As far as I know, it appears to be the first intentional use of a lethally armed robot by the police in the United States,” said Elizabeth Joh, law professor at the University of California at Davis.
Forwarded from FUCK LAWNS
This is potentially an outdated list, but worth sharing.
Forwarded from channel zir0
Happy anniversary y'all.
Forwarded from Inhabit
there are two paths...
Forwarded from r_Damnthatsinteresting
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Spanish musician Xavier Lozano playing a flute made from a street barricade.

https://redd.it/m4cna5
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"Each tree tries to earn the best spot in the sun.
But by being too greedy, they would risk prompting the death of their neighbors and thus of the protection network, or even the collapse of the system. In the forest, all trees are connected. That's why "survival of the fittest" only applies when no member of the community is in danger.
[...]
They make up a solid community."

From an arte documentary called The whisper of the forest - When trees talk about how trees communicate and form a real network of informations through fungi, gas they release and through their roots, which makes them more "social" than we thought they were.

(Unfortunately the documentary is only available in French and in German :/ (so the quotation was translated by me, sorry if I made syntactic errors))
Maybe it's far-fetched, but this extract led me to make a parallel with our own societies and how capitalism encourages competitivity when it's harmful and even deadly to our communities.
The documentary in German :
Forwarded from Anarchopiratism