Economist article on it https://archive.is/ddS6X

Parallel construction poorly executed.

Really good to know. That should have made it into their update letter in point (2). Empowering the user to choose is the right call.

Not marching, but Ukraine uses continuous track machine gun robots seemingly very effectively. They aren’t suicide ones.

https://archive.is/dpNsN

They are an interesting prospect but their use isn't quite as claimed.

They are extremely vulnerable to the same drones humans are.

It's more along the lines of this is a patch were not expecting active fighting this robot can act as a deterrent and surveillance.

Cheaper and simpler than a loitering IRS drone. But more concentrated in domain.

I believe for a while Samsung developed similar drones for the demilitarised zone in Korea. Those could be static as they were hard wired in.

> They are extremely vulnerable to the same drones humans are.

I am not confident about this. Human gets disabled by few small shrapnel projectiles into soft tissue. It is possible to build way more protected robot, for which you need some direct hit to disable it. That robot could also be very agile: e.g. do some evading jump at the last moment before being hit.

I think you just pitched a Robot Wars revival for 2026.

This article shows them being used for offense.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/20/europe/robots-ukraine-bat...

At the moment, cruise speed and manufacturing price.

Solutions like https://bugherd.com/ might make the issue context capture part more accurate.

I spec'd up an implementation of this that uses a hardware button with colors that is in reach of either party. The customer went with a different vendor based on price/"complexity"/training.

We use Jamf Pro for a small company. I'm not a big fan of the minimum 20 seat pricing model. I hope this will be something small companies can move to easily and have enough coverage to satisfy security reviews.

For a less simplistic look at a similar question I'd recommend this article.

https://hyperfocusinhalifax.substack.com/p/why-arent-oil-pri...

The current A/B test I seem to be in is that bad. But it will likely drive the metrics they are trying to drive.