A high-tech weapons manufacturer and CIA officials cooperated to conduct a non-public actual combat test of combat robots. The location was selected in the area controlled by drug dealers in the Golden Triangle. The mission goal was to eliminate drug dealers and their families in the area, and then recover or self-destruct.
Originally a very simple task, but a group of chattering international medical aid workers accidentally broke into the drug dealer's settlement by accident, and at the same time encountered a former SEAL member who was living in seclusion, the whole task gradually got out of control. One robot accidentally acquires self-consciousness, and three other robots try to eliminate all witnesses. Members of the medical team were either killed or injured, and a former SEAL was also seriously injured. In the end, with the help of autonomous robots, the remaining few finally escaped.
The story is more old-fashioned, barely a sci-fi thriller. The only thing that can impress the audience is the battle robot inside. Although there is no such robot in reality, some robots seem to have a prototype for this direction, such as Atlas.
The Atlas robot, the iconic product of Google's Boston Dynamics, has made rapid technological progress in recent years.
After several generations of changes, the latest Atlas has been equipped with very advanced intelligent technology, which can independently complete many complex movements, such as variable speed running, standing long jump with legs, high jump, backflip, over obstacles, and maintaining balance. Lift heavy objects, etc.
I believe that in the near future, Atlas can become more intelligent.
The U.S. defense and intelligence community is also closely watching the militarization of Atlas. But if you want to reach the level of combat robots in the film, some key technological breakthroughs are needed.
The first is the energy battery that determines its battery life and power output. With the current technology, it is difficult to equip it with enough energy batteries in a small space, especially in harsh and unpredictable combat environments.
The second is the material of the robot itself. Ordinary high-strength alloy materials can cope with most light weapons, but if you encounter opponents with heavy firepower output, such as anti-material weapons or RPGs, or even armor-piercing bullets, it is not enough to play. And even if it can be agile, it is not enough to encounter high-explosive ammunition at close range, such as the mines in the film.
Then there is the robot's weaponry. Mounting pure light weapons is heavy protective equipment that can increase the ammunition carrying capacity and prolong the combat cycle, but cannot attack the opponent. If the light-heavy combination mode is adopted, the increase in its own weight will affect the battery life, and the payload will also be limited.
The last is intelligent control, which is the problem of robot AI. The battlefield environment is changing rapidly. If a combat robot is not authorized to have a certain autonomous thinking, its combat efficiency will be greatly affected. However, the military is also worried that if the robot AI is given too much autonomy, if it loses control, there may be unacceptable consequences.
Therefore, for a long time in the future, it is still difficult for robots with autonomous combat capabilities to be applied to actual combat.
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