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PSA: if you or someone nearby are being brutalized by a police Spot robot and can get a hand or something underneath, grab this handle and yank it forward. This releases the battery, instantly disabling the robot. Keep your hands away from joints, Spot WILL crush your fingers.

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@nypost

Feb 23, 2021

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6:15 PM · Feb 24, 2021

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If you are a bystander and can get BEHIND spot, don't hit the power button, hit the OTHER button - it physically disconnects the motors. Spot can also be countered with booby traps easily. If you're armed, shoot center-of-mass as normal. The lithium pack is huge and not armored

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Spot is also purely optical, meaning paint, dust, a sheet or blanket, sticky tape, etc can severely impair it. Original stereo cameras on the face. 360 camera, pan/tilt/zoom cam, and LIDAR rangefinders on accessory rails.

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If you're feeling creative, and can prepare beforehand, Spot is literally just controlled with an Android tablet. In manual (as in, non-autonomous) mode, Spot is literally just communicating over Wifi. A WiFi jammer based on an ESP2866 is $40 on Amazon, just sayin.

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Ostensibly, Spot was never meant to see combat - at least the current iteration of it. There is, of course, military versions in the works that probably get rid of most of these vulnerabilities but police departments are buying the civilian ones just cause they can.

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The quick-change batteries, safety cutout, wifi control, etc make plenty of sense for the ADVERTISED usage cases of disaster recovery, warehousing, power plant maintenance, HAZMAT, EOD, etc as this isn't even supposed to get within 2 meters of anyone while running.

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Holy hell this REALLY doin numbers Surprised I haven't gotten DMs asking me to shill face peel masks or seal plushies or something

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So uhh, this is going around AGAIN cause of that France thing I still don't have any purple vibrators or galaxy lights to sell you, so just draw my fursona or something (and tag me cause I muted this months ago)

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WOW this is going around AGAIN because of the new robot dog with a gun on it Most of these vulnerabilities aren't on THAT one, it's a different company and it's MADE for combat Anyway, GIRLS get the BEST vibrator at harborfreight.com

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i love that this is one of only two things that people on the internet know me for, and the other thing is getting castrated in such a well-documented and reasonably explained way that i may have accidentally started a cult

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Achai

@AchaiWolf

Feb 24, 2021

I wanna see if I can ssh into a Spot in lockout mode... that would be fun

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Should be able to, Boston Dynamics documented the hell outta this thing. It's got a Gigabit ethernet port on the back, and the DB25 accessory connectors on top also have Ethernet.

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