How many more years will it take Boston Dynamics to weaponize its robots?

[RacistComputer79]

Yes, the biggest obstacle is a cheap portable power source that should be able to last for days. But let's assume they somehow had that right now, would it be hard to add other things like making them acquire targets and firing precisely with firearms? Until robots become cheaper, humans will still be the primary source of cannon fodder.
War is a business after all.
Perhaps automated robots are a too expensive for whatever use you might get, controllable units like a drone can do much more damage with a human using common sense behind the wheel. What do you guys think?

 

[Nicholas Gur]

How would a robot identify human targets if they continue to change their appearance? If the enemy dresses up like your local metallica cover band and disguises their rifles as guitars would a robot know to shoot them?

 

[We Are The Witches]

With current technology, a robot that can actually perform in battle/war would probably a massive waste of money and resources. It would just take a single blow to render your hundreds of thousands of dollars incapable.

Just imagine the robot trying to aim at moving, thinking targets while covering behind a semi destroyed wall, the level of precision it needs, just so that a drone blows it up to pieces, or a stray bullet in the exchange.

Just use the cheaper thing: meat. Plus, if there's any robots for war, it would be wiser to not make them with humanoid form, because it needs to dedicate so much computer power for balance on those 2 legs, aiming, running, getting up, looking around, etc, just make an armored mini-tank-spider or something, or a kamikaze fast drone.

 

[Le b0wski]

I wish they would just get to mass production already.