The Future of Battlefield Robots

Alien54 writes "The Pentagon is drafting the Segway two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops. Dean Kamen, the Segway's inventor, says he had no qualms about enlisting his brainchild into the military."

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Exactly! Criticism is necessary for improvement

[Cryofan]

The "American hating liberal" propaganda meme was developed years ago to stifle criticism. I think American Power IS CORRUPT. Remember that pwoer corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Truer words were never spoken. And look at how entrenched and longlived the American power structures are! Unlike western european democracies, which were torn down and rebuilt from the ground up in a supervised manner after WW2, the American power structures have grown old and corrupt, made the most powerful and the most corrupt in the world by virtue of happenstance geography. No wonder the average American worker works 30% more hours per year than the western europeans, and has to pay for exorbitant health care and university costs......