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Army to deploy robots that shoot
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
CNet news has some details on the US Army's future plans with armed robots.
The Army next March will begin to deploy Talon robots from Waltham, Mass.-based Foster-Miller. The robots will be mounted with M240 or M249 machine guns, said a Foster-Miller spokesman. The units also can be mounted with a rocket launcher. Defense agencies have been testing an armed version of the Talon since 2003.
Putting guns on robotic vehicles is a natural evolution of the technology, which is being adopted to decrease risks to personnel in the field, the company said. Several robots, including the Talon and the PackBot from iRobot, have been used to conduct surveillance missions such as taking pictures inside the caves of Tora Bora, Afghanistan, during the conflict. Other robots have been mounted with "distruptors," guns that disable bombs and mines.
Posted by: oderus1671
K E W L ! ! ! ! ! technology is a beautiful thing!! good read!
Posted by: IceBreaker
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although humans will firmly be in control of them.
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OK. But the day these bots are given the ability to fire of their own volition, that day the fatal line will have been crossed. And I'm crossing my fingers hoping that this day shall never come.
Brings back old memories - Deus Ex, etc. ^^
Posted by: FadedMaster
I agree with Ice. Haha. AI is something I fear. For the ay that AI is invented... that'll be the beginning of Man's demise.
Posted by: IceBreaker
Actually I consider AI acceptable as long as it does not apply to "sensitive" fields such as medical, security (at least for the use of force - using AI to gather intelligence is OK I suppose), etc.
But I wouldn't mind a robot carrying out the household chores - very handy for those of us guys who aren't married yet http://www.fintoys.net/yabb/yabbima...ies/pleased.gif
Posted by: redwench
pffft. you think im cleaning up someone else's crap? HA
Posted by: IceBreaker
Bait successful> ^^
Posted by: FadedMaster
Haha. Well, I guess I'm a little conservative on that. I don't like the idea of giving artificial intelligence. Well, at least a learning form of it. The time when we create machines that are able to think for themselves... I think is the time they learn that we're not needed. Haha.
Posted by: oderus1671
im not into the whole Matrix theory. i think these bots would be good for border patrol. if i knew that there were armed robots on our borders, i would think twice before sneaking in...
Posted by: AOTY2KB
Whats gets to me is the use of robots in warfare in one sense is a stupid idea. If the idealology behind war is to conquer and rule part of the human race, then that awe/fear factor of death to some extent is required for one to admit defeat and surrender. (Unless we wish to start debating economics here and the corporation.) If wars are to waged between countries with AI on the front lines to blow up more AI, all I see is a huge scrap metal yard, not war. In order to bring some shock factor would then require the extermination of the unarmed civilians thus becoming a war of genocide.
It's not the number of Humvees or Tomahawks in the Gulf Wars that were used/destroyed that gets into my head and says "needless death/destruction". Being a human, it is the KIA tolls of both the "Coalition of the Willing" versus the "Iraqi Terrorists" thats begs to ask the question of the semantics of warfare.
Posted by: oderus1671
there is a huge benefit to AI or robots on the war field... fewer of our young men and women in uniform coming home in boxes.
Posted by: AOTY2KB
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Originally Posted by oderus1671
there is a huge benefit to AI or robots on the war field... fewer of our young men and women in uniform coming home in boxes.
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Thus the further de-sensitization of the atrocities of war.
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