You best start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia

This is most likely a joke. It hasn't been confirmed if the powder is/ were 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."
- "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. 😏
  
  What? Two packages?
  One still? None left?
  
  Envelope named "bribe". Empty.
- 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.
- Okay, you can quit snorting that anthrax now

Reminds me of this meme
- That's hilarious and I hope you don't mind that I'm going to steal it to post.

Sounds extremely fishy. Those robo-dogs are expensive, they are slow - too slow to really act as couriers, and this is supposed to be Moscow - A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos, where you can't get them at the next corner shop.
- I can't tell too much from the picture but I believe that's a Chinese robot and China will ship to Russia from what I understand. And I've seen those as low as $1600 and anyone can order them online. It still sounds fishy maybe the cops want an excuse to get their own
  
  yep china has several, my concern is the range on these are dogshit.
- Not to mention the Russian police uniform doesn't look like that.
  
  Depends
- A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos
  Chinese tech is not embargoed and, despite less cool videos, actually widely deployed.

This may be the coolest fucking thing ever

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

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.

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?

Who's a good boy?
- going to post this to VCJ
  
  Whats vcj?
  
  Wait, there’s a VCJ on lemmy?
- looking at these is disturbing me a little
- It's true that the muffins look like chihuahuas and vice versa.

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.
  
  Something something big pharma....
  
  Oh trust me... They would still have the money.

Im actually amazed that while we supposedly have robo dogs we still have photos so blurry that you cant see shit.
- I mean it's just matter of priority I suppose, if something is relatively cheap and effective there's no need to invest into 4k or higher quality cameras. Especially when you don't have the storage for a week of footage or few days that loop over each other. But that's just my assumption, if 4k becomes the norm and storage gets bigger and cheaper we might see good quality security footage.
  
  Counterpoint: 4k camera modules are getting rapidly cheaper, it's standard in cell phones now. Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.
  
  If 4k becomes the norm?
  Where have you been living mate?

To be honest I'm more worried because of Moscow than any robot dog.
- Remember to tip your police officer and you'll be fine.
- Why?

Untraceable drug delivery? Sign me up
- Trivially traceable. Just follow the dog (discretely).
  
  Ugh, I hate those missions.

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.

That's awesome, I love drug dealing robo-dogs

Doggo delivers mana powder until he gets head pats.
- Cyberpunk we wanted

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.

Hi, is this robodog still available?

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...
- 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.

In this case the dystopia is the prohibition and storm troopers, not the robot dog.
- Storm troopers you say?
  
  This is why god invented automatic grenade launchers

Bump, Ubu, bump. Good dog.

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.
- The dog was a decoy

Robot Drug Delivery Dog is so much better than Robot NYPD Mass-Surveillance dog that I almost can't express how happy OP makes me.
https://apnews.com/article/robot-dog-nypd-61bd64c94360e30f110f65626cc1687c
The city’s first robot police dog was leased in 2020 by Adams’ predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city’s contract for the device was cut short after critics derided it as creepy and dystopian.
Adams said he won’t bow to anti-robot dog pressure.

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?

Life finds a way.

OK that'll be a discrete $50 handshake please.... OK so just walk to that corner and wait. There will be a dog...

Where? I want to see! Although... that would require talking to police. Nevermind.

Next dog will have a concealed robotic cargo pouch and poops out the drugs
- Next dog will probably shoot or electrocute the cops.

Russian military has a pretty cool weapon. Armoured minitank packed with explosives that drives into buildings and then detonates. It is usually accompanied by a small camera air drone that provides visual info, on where to drive the minitank, or at least is there to show off the destruction.
That is a higher level of dystopia. But, self driving food delivery mini vehicle technology will become a tool of the resistance to the genocidal extermination of unneeded labour pool.
- But production of drones takes about 18 years