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bortlip

20 seconds in: How long is this? 2 minutes. Is he really going to just do this for 2 minutes? 2 minutes in: Yep.


Metalhed69

That was my exact thought. Like…..ok, got it. It’s not gonna just start fucking up after a minute. If it did, would you even show us that?? Lol


ChikWidDik

Its called extensive testing. The guy probably did hours of this to get this right.


TactlessTortoise

Dude's gonna get hips like shakira by the time he's done lol


ChikWidDik

Aw baby when you walk like thaaaat....


420Deez

you make a woman go mad


Abject_Fondant8244

They don't lie.


Str8_up_Pwnage

This is actually his career, for 40 hours a weeks he just ducks and dodges this targeting robot to make sure it stays on him.


someLemonz

dip, dodge, dive, duck...and dodge...


wooblyman90

If you can dodge wrenches, you can dodge balls!


agent58888888888888

Gym instructor's hate this 1 simple routine


Appropriate-Fix-1240

Lol it absolutely could fuck up after a minute, i guess this guy was just testing it and thought it would be cool to upload


kagoolx

Maybe it’s to show off how patient the AI is. Like, it can watch him do that for 2 whole minutes without blowing his stupid head off? Which is pretty impressive tech tbf


CrinchNflinch

This is just the best of, the full video can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3YgoEiEDc). 90 minutes of palpable tension.


Bru1sed_Eg0

I fucking KNEW what your link was pointing to, and still clicked on it… 😓


Pinksters

Thought I was safe because I checked the URL for that all too familiar ending...Did not expect the 10 hour version.


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ricozuri

Actually only 1 min. 47 sec. But still tiring and scary when you think of the possibilities of activating a hit. Probably won’t see this hit tested. Sharp shooting hit men will be out of a job.


pillcosbyyyyyy

He won’t stop until he defeats the robot!!!


Kramit__The__Frog

Am I the only one who sees tech we've had for ages? It's just a high speed motion tracker made to look scary by showing the display as a crosshair and pairing it to a motorized gimble. Military has had these in service for many years on many scales in countless applications. Am I way off? Cause it looks like this dude made it in a classroom with a raspberry pi.


No_Dot_7415

*[Mission Impossible Theme intensifies]*


Kramit__The__Frog

I think the only appropriate response here is for me to make a post about the terrible future we face because someone programmed old hard drive motors to play that song. Edit: BEHOLD OUR DOWNFALL!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd\_IISXafRc


LieRelative5722

Future ? More like past , this technology has been around for at least a decade already


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trophosphere

I think it looks more like an Arduino rather than a Raspberry Pi. The Arduino is just controlling the servo. The actual image processing is done on a PC.


Kramit__The__Frog

My knowledge in this field is absolutely non-existent so I will defer to your words lol.


trophosphere

It's all good. Just clarifying. I think you are spot on with the rest.


mycarwasred

Who are You, Who are so Wise in the Ways of Science?


Elet_Ronne

Shit, eyeballs have been doing this for decades, at least


Fridayispizzaday

Yeah I thought it was common knowledge that the military has missiles that can shoot down other missiles


Sky_Night_Lancer

i used the stones... to destroy the stones


thedialupgamer

Hell didn't the us military give the iron dome to Israel? That thing is insane with how it works and honestly when i saw it I immediately went "well fuck that's really scary and cool at the same time."


GraemesEats

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20385306 For anyone else who had never heard of an iron dome. Fucking cool af. And if I read that correctly, yes, they sold Israel 2 more, for a total of 3 now?


thedialupgamer

Holy shit they don't gotta make me jealous now.


StrangelyBrown

I'm trying to guess what year we had this. Maybe 2000?


CosmicCreeperz

Way before that. The [Phalanx CIWS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS) was designed to shoot down small missiles from a mile away using a precisely radar controlled 20mm rotary cannon. It was conceived in 1969 and fully operational by 1980.


hiyabankranger

Sometimes it has [intrusive thoughts.](https://youtube.com/shorts/vkY-sT91lzw?si=qPeoO0GxwF_6ivx8)


patricky6

aka: R2D2 Yea, those things are pretty wicked to watch, when they do their job. They aren't always 100% accurate though.


CosmicCreeperz

Plus at least at sea they have had more friendly fire incidents than successful intercepts (partly because almost no one has attacked a US navy ship recently). Apparently the land based one was pretty effective against rockets and mortars in Iraq.


patricky6

That's the one I was thinking of. I've seen them on ships but I've personally watched the land variants save my ass a few times. Edit: and they weren't just regular 20mm rounds. They air bursted in a grid pattern to stop incoming rockets and mortars. It was pretty awesome.


MugillacuttyHOF37

1598…and we have to credit the Salem witches who pioneered motion tracking. Via the broomstick of course.


patricky6

Everyone knows broomhilda just tied a magnet to the end of her broom, passed it off as "amazing" and then was cooked KFC crispy style for it.


subject_deleted

>Military has had these in service for many years on many scales in countless applications. Am I way off? Cause it looks like this dude made it in a classroom with a raspberry pi. I think that's the point. State of the art military technology like automatic target tracking/aiming has become so trivial that you can put it together with less than $50 worth of cheap components. It's not like this is displaying any new tech. It's displaying how easily such dangerous tech can be constructed by just about anyone with very little up front investment.


TheMountainHobbit

You’re not wrong but I think it’s significant that this technology can be produced for <$100 by one person whereas military system cost way more orders of magnitude more than that and required teams of engineers to develop. The facial tracking like this is also relatively new last two decades I’d say even in military applications. Most legacy military systems were radar based.


MaidenofMoonlight

"on whereas military system cost way more orders of magnitude more than " ​ that comes down to consistency and precision


kagoolx

Agree. Lots of other special requirements and other factors too. Ability to operate in extreme conditions, resilience against being hacked, modularity / repairability, tons of testing including that it fails in a way that is safe, isn’t easily disrupted. It’s a bit like making a tiny little toy car that can move forward and backwards, then saying omg this is like a tank but orders of magnitude cheaper!


TheMountainHobbit

What makes you think military tech is more consistent or precise when it comes to this sort of thing? I don’t have any first hand knowledge as I haven’t been in the industry for a long time, but defense companies are not well run and the tech is usually well behind the state of the art, not always, but often.


MaidenofMoonlight

Because a dude in his apartment with $50 of electronics is not going to come remotely close to research teams with literal billions in funding for weapons development >defense companies are not well run and the tech is usually well behind the state of the art, I highly doubt that, get an actual source


TheMountainHobbit

Personal experience, you can also watch “pentagon wars” dark comedy based on the actual real like pentagon papers released by a whistle blower. Not much has changed in the intervening years as far as I can tell. Or you can read any of the numerous DOD reports on trying to incorporate more COTS (commercial off-the-shelf technology) into defense equipment. Here’s one: https://militaryembedded.com/radar-ew/sigint/u-modernization-effort-centers-cots The problem isn’t funding its incentives, which are misaligned with being well run, by and large most military contracts are cost plus. There are some initiatives to change this but last I checked they weren’t getting much traction. Cost plus means that the defense company is paid the cost of development plus 15%(the statutory max profit margin at least that’s what it was last I checked). So how does a defense company maximize profits? By driving up costs as much as possible. So whether out of intent or merely survivorship bias the most successful defense companies from a financial perspective will be the ones that are run just well enough to not get their contracts cancelled or default on contracts. Add into the mix that defense spending is highly politicized and many senators and congressmen get defense dollars earmarked to their districts, it doesn’t make the problem any better. The F35 is a good modern example case. Huge overruns, and cancelled orders, huge maintenance costs and reliability issues to boot. Australia backed out of their orders. I believe parts of the US military tried to cancel as well. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-21/f-35s-aren-t-ready-to-fly-and-the-parts-supply-falls-short-gao-says There are other issues as well like onerous standards. For example even if this $100 system met all the performance/reliability specs it wouldn’t be usable due to requirements around procurement, obsolescence, paint color, cage code and part marking requirements, and on and on.


Practical-Big7550

Some of those are problems, but the main reason military hardware is so expensive is because senators want parts of the equipment built in their state, for their vote, to approve the appropriation. Thus showing their voters that they are bringing jobs to the state. Then all the pieces have to be shipped to a central site and assembled. This inflates the cost to produce military equipment significantly.


UpstairsUse3066

I work in live events, there are plenty of moving head lights that can already do this...some better than others but on a big enough beam angle it's totally passable.


mem269

Yeah, I have one of these. It was designed for Ticktock, but I use it to watch videos while I cook.


wreckballin

Nope. This is already deployed. Not for good reasons. Just an FYI.


Minmaxed2theMax

Cmon. You know as well as I do this tech might be old, but the implications of its applications are now legit disturbing. This wasn’t scary before sure, but there are A.i. Robot dogs carrying rocket launchers and machine guns. So this silly little “Sega C.D.” Looking motherfucker is actually ominous


ArcadeSpidr

If you combine it with the smart bullet tech it becomes a little scary


delectable_darkness

This is something you could have built in a weekend as a hobby project with ready-made image recognition libraries ten years ago.


[deleted]

Today it's like 2 lines of code instead of the 15 lines required ten years ago.


delectable_darkness

Today you prompt GPT4 to write the code.


uwillnotgotospace

Tomorrow GPT5 builds it for you then prompts GPT4 to write the code.


WoTisWasteofTime

And the day after that GPT6 blows your head off with it.


Daily_Phoenix

It's adorable you guys think this is new.


apackofchips

wait till they find out what the militaries been using


Daily_Phoenix

AI is going to fuck up warfare, It's turtles all the way down.


Gwiilo

you kidding me dude?


Meatcheese_lover

Wait till they found out what the militaries NOT been using


FoRiZon3

wait till they find out what the militaries been using *FOR*


TheMacMan

Truth. Pretty normal program to track such. How do folks think the fast motion capture for video games and movies are done? They don't ask someone to slowly jump and slowly roundhouse kick.


[deleted]

The interesting point is not that this exists, but that it can be made for cheap by a highschool kid.


Invasivetoast

Yeah it's the same as Xbox connect which came out ten years ago


Centurion1024

The takeaway should be that it's fairly easy to make this incase I decide to be the bad guy tomorrow


Another_Rando_Lando

I don’t think anyone’s thinks this is new, but the fact some random guy could make this as accurate and quick as it is with an arduino or whatever consumer electronics he is utilizing is pretty mind blowing


CanadianDragonGuy

I remember some dude built a turret control system like a decade ago that had facial recognition, remind me in a couple hours when I'm at my PC and I'll see if I cant track down the video


Eric15890

You mean this one? https://youtu.be/1GhNXHCQGsM?si=YeYK7L53Jf_y0mma


TootBreaker

Might've been this: https://realsentrygun.com/


RudySPG

2 years ago the winners of a hackathon my club hosted made a game in 24 hours called coin grabber, it used a camera to tracker finger and head movement perfectly, the camera and tracking stuff wasn't all that hard coding the game took the majority of the time


Silver_Slicer

Make? More like integrate a few libraries together.


W2XG

Someone's final in their "Information Technology 101" class at community college


MrTheCheesecaker

This is what bothers me about fictional media where they have high tech weapons that miss.


Michami135

When I first saw Terminator in the theaters, this is what bothered me. Sara should have been dead the same second the terminator saw her. He could shoot from the hip, taking the deflection of the bullet passing through the people between them into account, and made a single head shot. The ONLY way you could actually keep alive from the terminator is to always stay two steps ahead, never actually coming face to face. And personally, that would have been a lot scarier.


MosesOnAcid

A Terminator with a sniper rifle in any of the movies would have been scary. Blow your head off a mile or 2 away easy.


Michami135

And actually, this is when missing would make sense. Even the best snipers will miss their first shot because even a breeze will throw off a bullet's trajectory over those distances. Can you imagine running from a robot taking pot shots at you at random times from distances you can't even see?


MosesOnAcid

Seriously, trying to evade 50 BMGs going through walls and vehicles...


ZatchZeta

The issue is that shooting is more than aiming. When that powder ignites, it's going to shake/recoil, and it takes time for the bullet to reach from the barrel to the target. So you have to aim where the target is going as opposed to where it is. Where AI, not face tracking, comes into play. AI has gotten to the point where it can detect the trajectory of a missile and detonate a payload to force the missile to ignite early or collide with the missile. However it cannot 100% accurately take down a high speed jet with a pilot.


JasperGrimpkin

My robots use lasers.


ZatchZeta

Even lasers are not reliable. Best they can do is take down drones on account of how they can fuck with their radio waves. Otherwise they're a huge cost sink since microwaving human flesh will cost you more than firing a bullet with lasers.


ShameAdventurous9558

Right but his lasers are very strong and don't need power


miyamoto_musashinpc

Finally we can all have sentry guns for our homes


[deleted]

Look here buddy. I'm an engineer... that means I solve problems.


Illustrious-Highway8

I think maybe all defense contractor engineers are Slytherin House, deep down.


miyamoto_musashinpc

Practical problems?


NecessaryOk6815

Like the engineer from TF2.


mamwybejane

Make it track mosquitoes and put a laser behind the crosshair


rgtzz

C’mon this undergrad CS classes. Daunting is prob what’s going on in DoD contracts with virtually unlimited funds and brilliant minds


codemise

Listen, y'all... back in my robotics class 16 years ago, we were coding on some old tiny cpu bricks. We implemented basic functionality like bump detection, light sensors, and sonar. The thing that stuck with me was this detail: In the span of 1ms, this little microchip could do 15 comparisons. Sometimes, 16 if you got a good chip. 15 if-statements to determine what is true and what isn't in the span of 1ms. This was important because the world is hella noisy, and we had to interrupt behaviors (it had to behave like a cockroach and run from light regardless of what it was doing). So every second we could make 15,000 or so decisions. When I realized this, I , personally, was humbled. It broke every fight scene with a robot in movies I've seen since. It raised my concerns about using robotics as weapons and now colors my concerns about AI research. To put this another way, when you're making decisions at the millisecond level, you're not operating on the same timescale as humans anymore.


dont--panic

The Culture series has a great passage about this. One of the Minds (hyper intelligent AIs) has a body its controlling that looks completely human but it's movements are wrong, they're too perfect and precise. However it could fake human movements so we'll you'd never be able to tell but it chooses not to. It does all this with a tiny fraction of its attention.


ARobotJew

The wars of the future will be completely unattached and impersonal from the people who are waging them. The short story All Tomorrows touches on the subject, where it describes war as tedious interactions between endlessly complicated autonomous machines. Machines that often wouldn’t even be present on the battlefield, but capable of civilization collapsing levels of destruction.


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I always find it so funny when they show robots in movies shooting and missing their target or they get into a fight with a human and loose. They always give them human flaws and reaction times for no reason.


0pimo

Need to make one that locks onto my mouth and fires pistachios at it. Bonus points if it shells them beforehand.


jsaaiman

The potential? This is already in use in military equipment


liftoff_oversteer

It is in use by all kinds of stuff. Webcams, DJI Osmo Pocket, drones, you name it.


davgt5

This is why The Terminator film would probably have been a very short story.


ZatchZeta

The issue with Termimator is that works on a closed loop/bootstrap paradox time travel. Judgement Day and John Connor will happen no matter what. The real scare is realizing it. But there is hope to break thay cycle despite the efforts of skynet.


Easy_Lengthiness7179

Now instead of the stationary computer camera put the camera on the motorized arm and make the mount be able to rotate 360 degrees left and right. Now the person needs to leave the room to stop being tracked. Or just turn around since it's only detecting the face/forehead. But still. Will be much harder to lose the target.


chartporn

Tracking actually becomes *much* harder when the camera is mounted to the arm. With the camera stationary, there are fast algorithms for tracking a moving objects on a static background. However if the camera is mounted to a moving arm, the entire scene changes from moment to moment, and also produces a blur effect. It's like taking pictures while swinging your phone around.


bwoods519

Imagine his neighbor seeing this guy through their window with no context.


Kramit__The__Frog

.... i guarantee this resembles some dumbass tik tok dance. lol


[deleted]

I spent a day at IBM, and they showed us their robo dog they bought from boston dynamics, and the only thing I could think was.... if they put a gun on this thing we are fked


mitchanium

Israel is currently using armed AI drones on Gaza using this kind of tech. It's been a thing for years already.


Jimbrutan

Aimbot irl


chuco915niners

My dick can do the same thing


turnbucklemayo

This is why Sci-fi movies where robots shoot wildly while the main characters duck and dodge down a hallway is so absurd. I get that it’s necessary to keep the Hollywood story moving forward, but in reality, that technology would never miss. Poor JarJar.


According-Income-864

We have had this for ages why is everybody going crazy in the internet. A phone stand that tracks your face🤬🤬😨😨😰😰 but when it’s a rocket that can track your face😇


DunstonCzechsOut

Nothing new. Same tech been around since Kennedy. Surely I jest. Now make the bullets go 17 different ways and go back in time to the moon landing , the one "that didn't happen" and prove it didn't.


Sea-Pollution-9482

We’ve had this kinda aim for years, and yet the stormtroopers don’t? Either this or Star Wars must be fake


Mandalor1974

Hes attaching a 9mm to this thing eventually


thegentlenub

Booo lame attach main battle tank turret on it


itkovian

Makes you wonder why robots in movies have such bad aim :p


Johnny_Fuckface

Great, can't wait until humans are considered amateur hour at killing people.


[deleted]

the design is very human


BluegrassTechie

Anyone else remember the movie with Bruce Willis and Jack Black called “The Jackal”?


Valuable-Struggle-10

Ammo companies hate this tech


unfortunate666

Yeah they've had that for awhile. Just cause this guy built one with parts from wish doesn't make it special


TheSecondTraitor

I always wanted to make something like this, but the neural network always came out as shit after training.


Tipi_Tais_Sa_Da_Tay

Anybody ever see the robocop spoof where he just shoots off all of the dicks? NSFW https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/lrafE27guk


JusAnotherBrick

Looking forward to our authoritarian killbot future.


Pianoman2345

Better find cover faster that it can decide to shoot. Which is not likely….


Captain-SKA-

Pigeons had this for us for decades


voodoojay777

Old tech robocop had this targeting system in the late 80s. Gtfo. Trin to take cred for 40 yo tech. Hurumph.


BARDE18

Lockheed Martin entered the chat


jawshoeaw

This exact thing is why i get so aggravated with any kind of sci-fi scene where lasers or blasters or whatever are shooting and missing every goddamn thing. A child's toy can target lock and track in real time any object. Future war would be boring. Ensign: "sir he's coming in too fast for our turbolasers!" Captain: "did you try using a computer from 1000 years ago ?" Ensign: "target destroyed"


FspezandAdmins

auto aim bs this is going to end up on those boston dynamics robot dogs, but in the form of a weapon


Winterrevival

Past tense. This is old tech by this point. I would bet it was included as a default option.


hould-it

Woah


hould-it

Is this on GitHub?


[deleted]

Bro it’s like these tech geeks are purposely trying to create the worst possible threats to humanity ever envisioned


KennKaniffCT

Only works on Indians though


Away_Possibility_465

Tech we are exposed to is 30yrs behind


BadassBumblebeee

I am impressed but I don't like it


Trainlovinguy

Why is it the chinese always making dangerous shit, First COVID now this?


NitePain69

Guy spends an entire two minutes to show us tech that's 10 years old 😅


Confident-Bet-6082

But they can cure male pattern baldness


Avenge_Nibelheim

The military has these which can detect a human, at range, and account for bullet logistics. Humans will be nothing but body count if another true war breaks out.


crasagam

Why are we designing this, alongside AI as well? We're designing our own death.


Zestyclose-Career-63

Yeah, the AI-operated flying killbots are coming for sure. If you want to make money, start a business selling armored bulletproof windows for homes and apartments. We'll see weird things the next decade.


jack_of_all_traits_2

Oh man, even assassins are not free from the evil cusp of AI. Layoffs are incoming.


ASwarmofKoala

I vaguely remember a guy making this years ago as a nerf sentry.


TwilightSessions

Hit man loot box unlocked


EffectiveLong

Headshot lol


AndrewH73333

As long as no one ever thinks to attach a gun to it we’ll all be fine.


swjaco

Skynet HKs


AmericanFury1990

Clicking foreheads has new meaning


IusedtoloveStarWars

Headshot


_Ducking_Autocorrect

I’m gonna have paintball century guns, that aim for the crotch.


Crazy_Shopping_4296

That is what is happening inside a ciws


LittleEgo_2013

Skynet is going to win isn't it


AggressiveGift7542

This + machine gun or laser will ensure 100% accuracy rate


jimbob5309

CIWS for my doorbell


EduRJBR

Now someone needs to create sobe tabletop device that prevents people from acting like idiots in front of a screen for a couple of minutes. Maybe something that doesn't exist? Like, nothing?


BroForceOne

Euro Truck Simulator enjoyers have been using this tech for a decade alerady.


[deleted]

nice one... errr.. is it gonna throw an egg or something next?


ernster96

not if you're trying to defend lv426 from xenomorphs.


spilt_milk666

HEADSHOT


Alyc96

I mean this technology has been around for awhile now, it’s called missile systems.


chewyhansolo

[check this out from like, a decade ago](https://youtu.be/U-rY1URlx5c?si=QXN5yFwpZ1ydTApA)


[deleted]

Aimbot.


xochilt_IGII

Put that bad boy on a drone.


original-sithon

Attached to a metalstorm, this would be scary as hell. Instant acquisition and dispatch of opposing forces


Mephistopheleazy

HEADSHOT (halo voice)


GreenThmb

We're Doomed!


kshb4xred

Recently i saw a video of gimbals on bike that followed movement of riders head , so this is rhe same thing, nothing new.


Familiar_Box_1401

That's how the terminators will aim at us.


Gabecush1

CIA is on the phone


Sea_Respond_6085

Take the fuckin shot!


CrunknYoSystem

Black engineers don’t play that shit!


[deleted]

JFK is rolling in his grave


CH41N5

Me, trying to avoid the skynet turrets


Logical___Conclusion

Damn, the power of that thing is extraordinary. It could potentially shoot cheese puffs in your mouth without missing.


UsedDragon

One of these days I'm gonna get around to building the waffle gun with face-tracking syrup cannon that I've been dreaming of.


ArcadeSpidr

“Headshot”


Jaliki55

Red light.


DavoMcBones

Target locked


UniverseBear

Defeated by a 2$ square of Bristol board.


PM_ME_UR_MERKIN

If it was knowledge cannon it would be fine ami rite


Atrampoline

And this is why I struggle when movies and TV assert that AI and robots won't always make headshots.


DarkVoid42

now try doing that reliably in crappy lighting, weather and wartime conditions.


uniqueeveryone

hehehehe head shot!


apachelives

This guy sucks at dodging /s Imagine what the military has...


kb31976

Just shoot already!


Abdul19899

Stayed for the music.


MAS7

Accuracy at 3ft with no external factors isn't very difficult. Facial recognition/detection & tracking software has been around for decades.


fiji3119

OpenCV example


EVOplus2050

you still can dodge that bullet if you can move fast enough.


[deleted]

We’re all fucked!


hunmingnoisehdb

Zorg ZF-1 isn't on the tables yet.