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Military Robots Get Machine Guns

Posted by samzenpus on from the remote-war dept.

javaxman writes "Next spring, the U.S. military is expecting to deploy Talon robots with machine guns. They can also be equiped with rocket launchers. Really, they're remote-controlled 'bots, not true autonomous 'bots, so you can save the Skynet jokes for, um, some day in the not-to-distant future. This is just the first, or maybe second step. As for me, I just want to see arena matches between gangs of these suckers. Robot wars indeed!"

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  1. A trend by DrLZRDMN · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't they get shotguns about a month ago? From what I can tell they'll have rocket launchers by the begining of next year.

    1. Re:A trend by prockcore · · Score: 5, Funny

      Didn't they get shotguns about a month ago? From what I can tell they'll have rocket launchers by the begining of next year.

      I just hope they don't get Quad Damage.

    2. Re:A trend by a1cypher · · Score: 5, Funny

      What if we gave them a whole variety of weapons that could be rotated through. Such as a hand gun, machine gun, gatling gun, rocket launcher, shotgun, etc...

      Then we could interface the machine with an FPS game and let people select weapons with the mouse scroll wheel.. And it can pick up any munitions, "health packs" or "armor shards" that it happens to "find" and maybe even throw grenades..

      hrm.... And then you could get a whole bunch of them and stick them in one location, "map" if you will where they can duke and nuke it out forever.

      oh wait...

  2. Johnny Five ... ALIVE! by omghi2u · · Score: 5, Funny

    Johnny Five ... ALIVE!

    Need I say more?

    1. Re:Johnny Five ... ALIVE! by Sepper · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can already see the battlefield of the future:

      Number 5: "Hey laser lips! Your momma was a snowblower!"

      --
      I live in Soviet Canuckistan you insensitive clod!
  3. Lemming? by dev_alac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else notice the page file was lemming.htm?

  4. Re:Captured robots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as they remember to enable the WEP security.