Yer in one
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. 😏
What? Two packages?
One still? None left?
Can’t have shit on mars when you are a postman.
Envelope named “bribe”. Empty.
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
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
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.
Reminds me of this meme
That’s hilarious and I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to steal it to post.
Who’s a good boy?
going to post this to VCJ
Whats vcj?
it’s a place for vegans to make low-effort humor
Oh, vegan circlejerk?
Wait, there’s a VCJ on lemmy?
Yes. And there’s a vegan lemmy (.vg)
Turns out, I’m already subbed to the .world instance.
looking at these is disturbing me a little
Nah, I’m kinda okay with that. Better than thought-crime surveillance Cyberpunk dystopia.
Why not both?
Why not skip the neon bright lights and just go straight to a full on 1984?
I see your communist plot to combat light pollution. The sky must be filled with lights from advertisements or else you wouldn’t know about the products that we already advertise on your phone and in your dreams. Stay in line citizen.
I’m beyond the point where the casual anti-soviet jab strikes me as funny.
The only difference between Cyberpunk & our current dystopia is full-dive VR, the neon lights are optional.
Yeah or 1984 with neon lights and drugs robot dogs
Or what about drugs robot dogs on cyberdrugs?
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 would probably be cheaper to send over the border with drugs too.
Im actually amazed that while we supposedly have robo dogs we still have photos so blurry that you cant see shit.
I mean it’s just matter of priority I suppose, if something is relatively cheap and effective there’s no need to invest into 4k or higher quality cameras. Especially when you don’t have the storage for a week of footage or few days that loop over each other. But that’s just my assumption, if 4k becomes the norm and storage gets bigger and cheaper we might see good quality security footage.
If 4k becomes the norm?
Where have you been living mate?
Untraceable drug delivery? Sign me up
Trivially traceable. Just follow the dog (discretely).
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.
What happened to the good old days when you got into the back of a car with a shady guy?
In this case the dystopia is the prohibition and storm troopers, not the robot dog.
Storm troopers you say?
This is why god invented automatic grenade launchers
Bump, Ubu, bump. Good dog.
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.
When can I get paid thousands of dollars to carry a USB drive 5 miles, assuming I manage to get away from a cybernetically enhanced Dolph Lundgren?
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
