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Pentagon To Send Robot Soldiers to Iraq

Posted by timothy on from the take-the-meat-popsicle-out-of-the-loop dept.

conJunk points out this AP story carried by Salon (also covered by various sources linked from Google News) "about the Pentagon's plan to send robot soldiers to Iraq in March or April. The program, Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems, uses Foster-Miller TALON robots, and is said to be "years ahead of the larger Future Combat System vehicles currently under development by big defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics Corp." If it's successful, maybe our men and women in uniform will have to team up with the United Auto Workers to fight the robo-threat to their jobs." Note that (whatever other considerations you might have about such deployment), the Rules of Robotics that some readers have linked to don't really apply to remote-controlled drones, which is what these are.

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  1. Re:obligatory. by EnderWigginsXenocide · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey, remote controlled combat vehicles? I'm down with that. I mean, hell, look at my username for christsakes.

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  2. Re:obligatory. by dutky · · Score: 0, Redundant
    dop9388 wrote:

    I, for one, welcome our new...oh never mind... I'll never trust a robot with a gun. It's like trusting a redneck buffoon with the presidency of the United States...oh wait...

    Hey! that's an insult to rednecks! Besides, Bush is no redneck buffoon: he's a silver-spoon buffoon. He's just pandering to the redneck vote.
  3. Re:The other side already has robotic killers by JudgeFurious · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's a reason why the parent posted using his name and you posted as AC.

    It's because he had a point and you are a fucktard.

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  4. Re:The other side already has robotic killers by JudgeFurious · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's a reason why the parent posted using his name and you posted as AC.

    It's because he had a point and you are a fucktard.

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