Silicon Valley startup breaks cover with plans for robo-armies
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/scout-ai-military-autonomous-fury
Silicon Valley startup breaks cover with plans for robo-armies
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/scout-ai-military-autonomous-fury
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“Scout AI co-founders Colby Adcock and Collin Otis want to, in their words, make large [robotic armies](https://www.axios.com/2024/07/11/military-robots-technology) a reality for the good guys.
**Why it matters:** Scout AI [emerged from stealth](https://scoutco.ai/) today with $15 million in funding and Pentagon commitments in its back pocket. It also unveiled a ground vehicle (G01) and aerial drone (A01) fueled by Fury, its marquee product, a vision-language-action foundation model.
It has 20,000 square feet of research and development space, plus hundreds of acres for real-world testing in the Santa Cruz Mountains.”
*’….for he good guys….’*. Sigh… we used to be the good guys, now what happens?
why do people desperatly want terminators why, it makes no sense
Got one tip for heroes out there: destroy that chip, that they’re planning to use in their robots, now. If you wait it will become kind of a complicated story to reverse in the future. Not impossible, just uhm… complicated.
You want Terminators? Cause this is how you get Terminators 🙄
Just Once I wish a Silicon Valley Bro could read “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus” **without** being inspired to Create the Torment Nexus
That current conflict in both Israel and Yemen show the limitations of this shit.
You can destroy these multi million dollar murder toys with dollars. It’s so asymmetric.
These guys are just grifting for our tax dollars.
Colby Adcock is the brother of Brett Adcock who owns Figure AI. He’s been working on humanoid robots for a while now.
To be honest I think the most strategic tech involved here is to be able to ramp up and mass produce a drone army and resupply it once it’s in the field.
Just like only the “good guys” have nuclear weapons, right?
but does it happen?
NO!
but does it happen?
NO!
what we really need is a ROBOPOCALYPSE.
a WHAT?
a ROBOPOCALYPE.
It sounds like they want to AI-ify existing drone assets, rather than create new robotics. Which begs the question of whether you actually trust AI to run drones when at least before a corporal holding a joystick is presumably capable of rational thought and can be held accountable, not to mention cheaper to find.