Yer in one
When can I get paid thousands of dollars to carry a USB drive 5 miles, assuming I manage to get away from a cybernetically enhanced Dolph Lundgren?
The 3 industries that will always have the money and be on the forefront of innovation:
- Military
- Drugs
- Porn
- Ads
not so much if we’d legalize drugs.
Oh trust me… They would still have the money.
Something something big pharma…
This is exactly the Cyberpunk we expected. Cyberpunk has never been shy about being a dystopia.
Practically the definition of the genre. It’s not typically “punk” if it’s a glistening utopia.
Using robots to do conduct black market trade under the nose of the police sounds extremely punk.
OK that’ll be a discrete $50 handshake please… OK so just walk to that corner and wait. There will be a dog…
This may be the coolest fucking thing ever
This would probably be cheaper to send over the border with drugs too.
I betcha its not too hard to put a faux skin on one of these to make it look like an actual animal, which from a distance would be potentially hard to tell apart from an real animal. As long as it’s used in the middle of nowhere,
It would probably be great for send drugs over remote parts of the border.
Wouldn’t a drone be cheaper and easier?
Easier to see and you can shoot it down from a distance more easily too.
The ruskies should be extra nervous about drones these days too.
“Is drugs? Or about to blow a spire off the kremlin?
This is most likely a joke. It’s not even confirmed it was drugs.
https://112.ua/en/po-moskvi-rozguluvav-robopes-narkokurer-48225
“After inspection, it was found that the packages the robot was carrying contained a powder resembling illegal substances.”
i mean, those robots are like $50k a piece minimum right? and they’re not particularly fast. it wouldn’t make sense to use them as drug mules
That doesn’t look like a Spot but one of the cheaper copies.
Just some brief searching shows me you can get them for under $1000 these days. It might actually be cost-effective.
At that rate, you could use them as patrolling watch dogs too. Have one bot with the drugs, the others all just watch.
Okay, you can quit snorting that anthrax now
“After inspection, it was found that the packages the robot was carrying contained a powder resembling illegal substances.”
Moscow Police: Oh, silly me. Did I say packages? I meant package—singular. 😏
Envelope with text “bribe”. Empty.
What? Two packages?
One still? None left?
Can’t have shit on mars when you are a postman.
Nah, I’m kinda okay with that. Better than thought-crime surveillance Cyberpunk dystopia.
Why not both?
Why not skip the neon bright lights and just go straight to a full on 1984?
The only difference between Cyberpunk & our current dystopia is full-dive VR, the neon lights are optional.
Yeah or 1984 with neon lights and drugs robot dogs
Or what about drugs robot dogs on cyberdrugs?
I see your communist plot to combat light pollution. The sky must be filled with lights from advertisements or else you wouldn’t know about the products that we already advertise on your phone and in your dreams. Stay in line citizen.
I’m beyond the point where the casual anti-soviet jab strikes me as funny.
Untraceable drug delivery? Sign me up
Trivially traceable. Just follow the dog (discretely).
Ugh, I hate those missions.
At least it’s better than defend the dog missions.
Doggo delivers mana powder until he gets head pats.
Cyberpunk we wanted
I was expecting this from quadcopters. I’d have thought they’d be more difficult to catch
Yeah but this was also advertising the service, a quadrocopter wouldn’t do that as good. If anything I’m surprised they are just sacrificing the robo dog considering how expensive those are.
Once the cops find it, there’s no stakeout-proof way to recover it.
Unless the robo dog doubled as a drone to make a quick getaway, it’s just plainly an expensive walking mistake
The dog was a decoy
It’s hard for me to believe this strictly because A) those things are fucking expensive, and B) aren’t they like …hella fucking fast??
They are not that fast. At least none that I’ve seen. I’d say they go like 10mph tops.
Quadcopters would be more efficient financially and more reliable. Probably faster too.
fr not encouraging anything illegal, buuut. The robot dog should only be used if the drone needs a place to stop mid way from the check point because of battery limitations or weather, as like a mobile outpost/command center to prevent easily spot able routing from places. Having the robo dog do the entire trip is quite wasteful on resources.
This guy efficiently drug deals.
That’s odd.
I think most of the time they just use dead drops, it’s much safer.Courier sticks drugs to a tree, walks away, sends a geo location of a drop to a buyer. Done.
Druggie just has to geolocate it, never meet in person.
HOW GET MONEY?
Paypal? Venmo? Monzo? Or in other words, with great ease…
I’d be uneasy with electronically transferring funds for illicit drugs, cash seems wiser.
Why, though? You send on paypal as friends and family. You dont get taxed on that kind of transfer and i doubt it is being audited.
There is a level of trust you have to assume between a drug dealer and the customer. You retaining customers is all done on reputation. If you try to cheat your customers, they will all go elsewhere. There is a lot of incentive for dealers to run their “business” well and keep customers happy.
Cash means you need to meet face to face. This is far more risky. When i was younger and smoking weed, it was all face to face, meet someone somewhere and trade there. Or a car pulls up and you have a little chat and swap money for the bag. But this was dodgey. It was risky. It eneded up in arrests more often than you think.
Towards to end of my pot head days, it was all telegram to put orders in, delivered by royal mail via recorded delivery and money tranferred with an app as i mentioned above. This is more private than you think.
Although admittedly i never did this sort of transaction, everyone i know who was/is still smoking/vaping is doing it this way.
How does the dealer get the cash without potentially exposing their location?
Yes, indeed. Hence the earlier, “HOW GET MONEY?” someone so eloquently asked in relation to this dead drop method. You could arrange your own dead drop for the dealer’s payment I guess, or stuff the money in to the same tree. It’s all a bit fraught, and requires you both to trust each other even more than a deal normally would. The system seems to be pretty flawed. Guess it works of you’re happy to leave an indelible record of you transacting with this person and if you trust them to actually put the goods there rather than just take the money since you’ll never see them and have no recourse.
What happened to the good old days when you got into the back of a car with a shady guy?
Thats for like 100 or less. Or for really risky dealers.
100 what? USD? If so, I used to routinely buy around that amount back when I was a cokehead and I still did it by getting in the back of the car. Perhaps it’s just different cultures. I can’t even imagine myself picking drugs from a tree (?)
I meant what you are saying, I think I worded it poorly. Cheaper deals are done in relatively shady places where you could get caught by chance. Bigger deals are more secure using any number of methods.
There are just bad dealers too though, its like any other job.
That’s awesome, I love drug dealing robo-dogs
This is EXACTLY the type of thing I expected from a cyberpunk dystopia
Right? Like did the creator of this image think more policing is less dystopian?
Militarized police, criminal syndicates using robots that destroy evidence when caught, to smuggle drugs, I don’t think this person knows what cyberpunk is
