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by anvandare 1761 days ago
There's no real need for AI. If you combine Atlas with VR controllers you could have the robots be in the danger zone while the human controllers sit in a safe and secure place. I'd say we're about a decade or two away from that, but I can see the potential.

(Additionally add Starship as a delivery mechanism and Starlink as a low-lag communication channel and you've got a "deploy a battalion of killbots at any place on the planet within 1 hour, with 0 risk for the operator-soldiers" pitch for a defence contract)