<story><title>Do You Love Me? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability.&lt;p&gt;Everyone&amp;#x27;s so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying anti-personnel mines.&lt;p&gt;The expense, complexity, power, etc to build bipedal assassins is higher than wheeled RC vehicles, quad copters, and missiles.&lt;p&gt;The weapons that exist today are much more scary than these robots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheresmycraisin</author><text>IIRC the humanoid Terminators in the movie are infiltrator units. Skynet will definitely have more conventional aircrafts and wheeled vehicles to hunt us down.</text></comment>
<story><title>Do You Love Me? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability.&lt;p&gt;Everyone&amp;#x27;s so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying anti-personnel mines.&lt;p&gt;The expense, complexity, power, etc to build bipedal assassins is higher than wheeled RC vehicles, quad copters, and missiles.&lt;p&gt;The weapons that exist today are much more scary than these robots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ROARosen</author><text>A swarm of these can fan out over a house and target very specifically anyone hiding there. Without killing the human shields.</text></comment>