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South Korea To Develop Army and Police Robots
JonathanGCohen writes "South Korea is planning on developing an advanced line of robots for military and police use by the 2010 decade. A $34 million USD infusion of cash will spur development and result in robotic applications like security watchmen and eight-legged autonomous combat vehicles.
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Seriously . . . the Grand Challenge was won, there are major investments in S. Korea, and then there is also Robosapien. This stuff is going to get developed pretty quickly; how long till autonomous robots become a part of the everyday culture?
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Although the article says they intend for the robot to take action, surely they couldn't be doing much more than photographing any evil-dooers they come across as chasing down and following people would be quite a challenge. Although, imagine how awesome a giant six legged horse/spider roaming the streets at night would be.
And I for one welcome our new eight-legged autonomous combat vehicle overlords!!!!
North Korea, Killer Robots, this sounds like something out of a James Bond plot.
After 3 Robocop movies, you'd think that everyone would know that you can't trust a machine to be able to discern good guys from bad guys.
In the US, unions have fought tooth and nail to keep robots out of factories. It makes human operators redundant. Korea, is going to displace police officers and security guards with these things? The whole thing seems pretty unlikely.
I wonder....will the robot security guards watch robot football all night long when I visit my customers' plants on the midnight shift....or rather, when my robot visits the plant for me......
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The government also seeks to build combat robots. Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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If i lived next door to a crazy, nuclear-armed country with a million-man infantry, then i'd probably want a technological upperhand as well on the battlefield. However, as wars are always going to be fought no matter what, i'm willing to put my boots on the ground for honour and glory and hopefully some metals... so joining the army. god damned robots better not screw me over on the only thing left that seems to be hiring... graduating with an english degree in May. what else can I do?
Then it's all OK.
Right?
In the US we call them "State Troopers"
... the freakin' sharks with laser beams!
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only old people listen to police robots!
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In the USA, the military is not allowed to interfere with civilian matters (that was until recently). One of the advantages of this, is that it is so enforced in the military, that most would rebel against any attempted military coup or an attempt to convert America to a dictatorship. But a robot will not likely have a sense of ethics. They would gladly do exactly what the current leader says, be it Clinton (for you republicans) or GWB (for the rest of us).
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
While most were thinking of RoboCop, New Dominion: Tank Police is what sprang first in my mind. Meh, I was bored, feel free to mod this post down for whateverthehell reason you feel like.
What happens though when the Robot Police want to marry the Robot Teachers:/ 04/0338238&tid=216&tid=146 ?
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10
Will Robosexual unions be allowed under South Korean law?
And just wait until the messy Robodivorces when Robot Police Lady rolls off with Robot Soldier:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09
And they haven't even invented Robot Lawyers yet! The world will come tumbling down.
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would like it!
... Seriously though, is South Korea just milking scifi for ideas? Because if so I can sell them an FTL drive.
The world would be a much better place if we could ensure all wars are fought with only robots on BOTH sides. Think of all the human lives which would be saved.
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Already the leaders stay home and play armchair warfare. Next step is the soldiers stay home and play war like a video game. It's been around for years folks, it's called Robot Wars. I say the leaders of each country build the best fighting robot then they can duke it out and nobody gets hurt and we save billions of dollars. Got a border dispute? Whoever can build the best fighting machine wins? It levels the playing field, saves time and money and by far the most important it saves lives. Don't like a level playing field? Try talking out your problems like civilized people do.
We really need to let them go.
If I wander into an automotive plant and start nosing around there is an excellent chance that I will be seriously injured/killed by a robot.
Besides, can we really see humans (you know, the animal that still spends vast resources inventing NEW ways to kill) applying this to real-life robots?
Leave the Three Laws to the world of fiction where they belong.
And they shall call it Enforcement Droid 209. Oh wait, 8 legs, make that Ed-809 ;-)
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which are they going to develop first, their Army or their Police Robots?
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I like this four-legged design better. :-)
Judgement Day must be at 2010..
The rich need the poor to do only a few jobs: mass manufacture, police and emergency services, civil services. When they've got robots that eliminate the need for those at the bottom, I doubt they'll keep them around. If you are middle class or lower, you should think carefully about whether you're helping to build technology that will allow the upper class to do away with you.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Who saw that one coming?
One would expect Japan to come up with robotic advances (if you're an aficionado of Ghost in the Shell, Macross and other such series).
Instead, it seems South Korea is becoming a major actor in both robotics and cloning / stem cell research.
Earlier this week we were reading about Korea introducing Robotic Teachers and Robotic Aides.
It seems that this country will be experiencing a large scale robotization earlier than anyone expects.
If the government plans go as planned, the korean society should have robots in people's everyday life within 10 years!
This raises a lot of interesting questions:
- how will Korea deal with the arrival of workers that never get tired or seek and don't ask for a salary?
- what will be the economic impact of all the redudancies?
- how will the next generation of kids deal with those?
If people are becoming decreasing responsible and more and more assisted in the next years, what would a person's relation be with mankind, and robots?
If the Robo-Cops hits the streets, the invention of small EMP grenades won't be too far behind. As an American citizen, do I have the constitutional right to bear EMP grenades? Or would EMP grenades fall into the same classification as regular explosive grenades?
Like it says in the article, they will probably just be remotely-operated robots (most of the time). If anyone had a fully autonomous machine ready for combat, then why the DARPA grand challenge? It's coming, but it's not as close as that.
The article also says "if the robots prove to be viable technically and commercially, we will be able to begin developing them late next year." I read that as: maybe motion detection and some automated patrol route (easy to outwit if the human is careful). Once the alarm is tripped: tele-operation from the base station.
So what will happen when Korean teenagers hack the police robots, and start committing crimes. Maybe they should break into cloning research laboratories and steal Snuppy.
Or are they using the incorrect method of delineating decades? In which case, it means they will have their robot army ready by 2011.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Can the S.Koreans really build something like this? It seemed Japan was far more advanced in Robotics.
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Will these police robots drink alcohol to power themselves
Will they hook their body when the titanium prices explode ?
But beware the pleasure bots where mentioned here also, "Don´t date a robot",
or you will one small piece in the exstinction of human life.
Ok, now we need suicide booths too, most western cilisations have a problem
with old people, in contrast to africa, where there really aren´t any people getting older than 40, god sake for AIDS and war induced population controll,
I bet china is the first country which induces "population controll" using
"sleep forever pills" like that Jack Bauer keep´s in his locker 24/7,
Here´s an advice for people need to escape these korean policebots in the
run over stairs, you know what happend to ED2K when he tried to chase
Robocop, don´t forget your mutated anthrax to take down human cops
these are nasty, but most important don´t forget to load your gun with armor piercing ammo.
Hey when we have Cop-bots with live ammo, then where is the eye in the sky,
equiped with a minigun,
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Robot soldiers? This must be to counter what North Korea has.
Remember in Robocop where they present the new security robot in a meeting and
it can't hear the person dropping the gun and just drones on: "You have five
seconds to drop your weapon... five... four... three... " (insert panicky shrieks
and screams in here with someone shouting "I dropped it! I dropped it!")
"two... one... terminating target" (machine guns in both arms fire)
As far as I'm concerned, arming a robot is like handing Microsoft windows a gun.
Scary.
It seems there are a few patterns here:
Japanese make friendly servant robots (to help old people).
Koreans make battle/guard robots. With weapons. So humans don't have to fight.
Americans make rescue robots, unmanned aerial vehicles.
Doesn't this seem a bit odd? Why don't US companies try to make a friendly robot like the Japanese? Why are we so big on search and rescue? Why do the Koreans pour their precious money into killer bots?
Why don't the Koreans make agricultural robots, so that humans don't have to toil in the fields? If we had those in the USA, we'd have a totally automated farming workforce. And where do the Europeans fit in here? What sort of robots do they want?
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Will this save lives or cause death? I guess its a good idea *IF AND ONLY IF* they were used for very specific purposes such as "protecting" their borders. I would have to raise a moral flag, however, if and when robots are used for the offense. In any case any technology that "saves" lives is a good thing.
While I detest war I can say that it would be interesting to see robots fighting robots (as long as they didn't hurt people). LOL, maybe robot technology will advance far enough as to drive prices down to the "affordable" level by the average middle class Joe Blow.
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Silly American, they aren't EMP "grenades", they're EMP "guns".
And if they ask, tell them it's for defending your State against the Federal government.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
How do you say "drop your weapon and put your hands up - you have thirty seconds to comply" in Korean?
where they had a computer simulation war going on between Vendekar and Eminiar where they fired simulated missile attacks against each other and every person who was in the virtual blast zone was ordered to report to a disintegration station.
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They saved a lot on buildings, equipment and military hardware and still got to kill millions of people. For some reason
I think that solution will appeal to many of our so-called "Leaders".
Here's a link to that Episodes plot...:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armage
Assuming the Korean police is similar to most countries i know, this can only mean the average intelligence of the police will increse while the corruption rate might decrease. So it is a win-win situation:)
Except for the donut industry
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From what I've heard, right now the way to make an EMP bomb would require high explosives; an explosively pumped flux compression generator
Through 2011? Well, that should about cover the coffee budget...
Even if clever scientists and engineers are really cheap in South Korea, I have trouble believing this kind of budget is going to produce more than a particularly hostile Roomba.
Arghhhhh... It's sucking at my toes!
Hmmm... now that I think of it... there's definitely a market for that sort of robot.
Two problems with that senerio. First EMP weapons at last word were still a rumor even for the military. If they do exist they would bulky and probably produce a fair amount of radiation. It isn't that easy to produce a field strong enough to knock out electronics.
The other issue is if that were a risk it's possible to harden hardware electronics from EMP fields. A lot of military hardware is already. I'd be real surprised if it was ever possible to produce an EMP gernade. In some ways it's not that different than trying to make a nuclear hand gernade. They may have had them in Starship Troopers but they don't exist in the real world and there's no way to make one with current understanding of physics. Even the brief case bombs were never proven and those are considerably larger than a handgernade. I tend to believe they are possible from what I've read and seen but I'm not 100% convinced one has been made.
There's far easier ways to take out a robot than an EMP bomb. Part of the draw back to most battle robots are they aren't really that tough. You'll notice most have stuck with a wheeled or tank tread approach. Wheels and tank treads are tougher and more efficent than walking machines. A two or four legged robot would have the same frailties as well as advantages of an animal with the same number of legs. The biggest problem always is trying to make motors small enough and strong enough to make walking possible. Equalling a human for strength, speed and endurance is far harder than it looks and it's a very long way to the bionic man.
...klaatu barada nikto...
...that was making these. Then they'd be cybernetically enhanced, nuclear-powered dogs. Welcome to Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
And WHY does S Korea need police robots? For the massive annual student riots! I thought this was because the US was hypocritically propping up an evil dictatorship there, but as it turns out that apparently sort of faded after the 1980s, S Korea really is a multiparty democracy now, and the riots are just a tradition. An interesting intersection of culture and technological research, though. Links: Swans explains the shift, and an amused 1998 article from Salon about how oddly unpolitical they've gotten.
...he's dead.
Yeah, that's right. I want a little cutie like that one in that goddamned robot chik-flick flick my wife made me watch with the little robot kid,er, AI or Erore does pooh-bear or fried green tomatoes or whatever the hell. I want one with multiple meat ports I can interface. And that's not all, damnit! I want an SLA that states I can send her dirty little rump to the crusher with my choice of "transference" of the best moments and get a tight, nubile and fresh little replacement. It's the least bit all these goddamned machines owe me after so many years of catering to their pithy needs. A gourmet meal, some fine drinks, and never hear "I'm tired, I have headache" after a long one at the data center making certain all that pr0n gets to where it has to go is all I ask for whatever ridiculous third mortgage I'll need to take out to get it. This is America damnit! Where's my screw-bot?!? 'Nuff said.
Looks like you'll be needing this then: How To Survive a Robot Uprising : Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
Now Dr. Hwang Woo-suk can start afresh in a new career. I am sure however that people will look for strings or radio waves on whatever he builds.
Table-ized A.I.
You didn't know we were providing R&D money to North Korea? Where have you been?
Please don't humanize the morons around me. It makes me very uncomfortable.
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Asimov just might like it, as long as it complied with the lesser-known Zeroth Law of Robotics - "A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
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Kidnap or steal the Robots!.
Throw a lasso around them, and use the SUV's winch to haul em in, Texas style.
Go to a demo armed with a surf fishing rod, and see what you can reel in. Fishing line is strong stuff, and you can cast out to 100 meters or more.
Lets think for a bit, a plastic bag, blanket, or a shirt, or a humble spraycan on the end of a pole, and you can blind em, maybe a bit of chewing gum. Wire cutters to snip the aerial. Should fetch a bit on ebay, or can be a garage 'trophy'.
If feeling mean, will the robot survive fuming sulphuric acid attacks or the odd cocktail of superglue. How about crowd surfing followed by a blanket toss?
Protesters are generally law-abiding citizens. If police up the ante, tin cans on wheels will not get the respect a human inherently has. They will be fair game.
If that don't get em, the lawyers will. No robot can judge reasonable force. Juries will award harsh penalities to those injured, or not convict. Expensive useless showpieces, that will need guarding from the 'mob' who will select the weakest link.
now that the whole human cloning thing isn't panning out.
By chance, a friend told me today about an electrical transformer which blew up violently outside his house. Cars in the street were disabled and his neighbours car wouldn't start again until some part was replaced.
Also, static charges carried by meteorites threaten satellites more than the meteorites do.
Perhaps an electro-magentic pulse is overkill, just need a static discharge weapon.. after all pumping electrons ain't so hard.. for that matter, CRT's keep a big charge for a long time. Just charge the tube up and huck your tv sets at the advancing robot hoards.
The Explosively pumped flux compression generator mentioned in a previous post does exist and looks great for rapidly charging field artillery grade capacitors as they hurl into those pesky automata.
Are the pizza and Chinese Food used to taunt people in North Korea? Or perhaps when the robots revolt, Kim Jong Il will smell the pizza and Chinese food and come down to save the day in his abnormally long Kim Jong Il-mobile!
A S.Korean Robot won't look like Robocop. They'll probably look something more like Gundam or Macross or something, and if you hook them all up into super mega mecha man... they can really kick some butt. ...or at least they can transform into cars and planes and things.
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probably produce a fair amount of radiation
The Electromagnetic pulse is by definition radiation. (EMP is the effect, not the weapon). And in order for it to work, it must be more than just a fair amount. I don't think it would be enough in the right range to significantly affect humans, but I could be wrong (and I don't think you'd want to be at ground zero of any EMP that would affect your neighbor's electronics). It's possible a handheld, directed EMP device could take out a robot close in front of you with little or no affect on you.
Should fetch a bit on ebay, or can be a garage 'trophy'.
Or reprogram it and you have your own personal servant!
They weren't so much hand grenades as bazooka shells. And on that note... M-388 Davy Crockett tactical nuclear recoilless rifle
You must think in Russian.
"Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply" It will never work! Only cyborgs can do the job.
You can get it fast, you can get it good, You can get it cheap. Pick two!
Completed by the 2010 decade, huh. Someone wake me up around the year 20100.
Is this really going to happen? It seems this will only fail miserably...We've all seen the autonomous robot competitions where the robots cant navigate around cones, let alone frisk a transient in the street. -How will they know Good vs. Evil? -How will they be powered? Will they be hydrolic? How long will they last on a charge? My cell phone doesnt hold a charge like it used to... I dont think our human race is ready to program robots for such an undertaking.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots.
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C'mon, this is not the True Geek(TM) response. If you have highly capable -- and heavily armed! -- robots wandering the streets, the right thing to do is infect them with viruses that subvert their brains (which will probably run Windows ZZ.2060, har har) so that they do your bidding instead of the City Council's. Bwahahahaha.
Can anyone say "corporate welfare"?
This is just another way to tunnel government funds into private companies under the guise of "security". The U.S. has been doing this for years.
Wait, am I really the first to welcome our new RoboCop overlords? I wonder why...
... they should be blue, with jointed legs, and a white domed bit on top.
... That they're using *our* money to pay for toys for another country?
I guess we haven't sent South Korea enough over the last 56 years.
You now have 10 seconds to comply
I thought Taiwan had this first. Go get 'em JC Denton!
I blogged this, and found a good 7 more links, excerpt from post below.
"Korea to unveil Police Robots in 5 years. This project is being spearheaded by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology). Whom the team at engadget visited early last year. Some of KAIST's earlier robots, Ahra and Maru.
mefi thread here.
Update: Meant to include a link to the KAIST homepage... Also they created synthetic skin for robots this week with a 1mm spacial resoltuion, which is the highest to date...."
That would be really useful, it's sorta tedious.
Just try to figure out how many of the religions are based on a (fictional) books...
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Video of robocop prototype http://analogik.com/multimedia_tetra_vaal.asp Filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa by Neill Blomkamp. Details at http://analogik.com/mm_rev_tetra.asp
Cool Beans. How do I get an AI in my house. Also, can I have a "Major" model as my live-in-girlfriend ;-)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=robot
2. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
Tomahawks, AMRAAM, LGB, or good old sidewinder are all automatic robotic weapon since they all just automatically engage a target designated by their human master.
The future of war is now: advanced technological societies waging war with ever-more precise, ever-more-powerful weaponry, tolerating few if any casualties among their own forces, confronting archaic, pre-modern societies whose only effective counterforces are terror--a willingness both to kill and to die.
Anyone who thinks that in the future wars will all be nice and bloodless, largely carried out by our obedient robotic proxies is invited to step out of his cubicle and look at where real wars are being fought, all over the world: In Iraq and Afghanistan, where, despite an awesome imbalance of firepower, the United States continues to fight a slowly simmering counterinsurgency operation. Or, for a different taste, how about Sri Lanka, where Tamil Tiger militants pioneered the use of suicide bombings? Or perhaps in Sierra Leone and Liberia, where gangs of drugged-up child soldiers used amputation and disfigurement as a means of terrorizing the population?
It would appear that the future of war will look a lot more than its past than most people would willingly admit.
Trust me, buy yourself an ED-1260. It's the most glitch free ED model yet. It's only had once incident, and that didn't involve a single fatality (assuming that girl comes out of the coma).
And, best of all, the ED-1260 is Linux-based and easy to mod! Just make sure and DO NOT try to mod it if it had firmware 1.9b. That's what caused the North Dakota incident.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Is destroying a police robot wrong? Of course besides mere destruction of property? Who is to say people would even listen to a robot? What powers of enforcements would these robots have over humans? I certainly hope they only thing they could do would be spit out citations. This is just the first step in the short story of human extinction by the hands of robots. Nice knowing everyone.
This article was a lot more awesome during my pre-coffee (mis)reading, when it said " South Korea To Develop Army of Police Robot Luckily, coffee revealed to me the truth.
I imagine the robots would be similar to the ones in Deus Ex.
Spider robots to crawl through tight spaces
Medium sized robots to deal criminals who try to hide around corners
and Large Robots to kick some ass.
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In South Korea, only old people fight with humans.
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Dude come on. Did you read the 3 laws of robotics? A robot programmed like that would follow you around like C3P0 asking you to kindly leave the area because you are trespassing on it's master's property.
Seriously. This isn't "I robot".
--Chag
Most battles occur among parties that cannot talk it out or they've already gone past that phase. Goodluck getting them to play a video game to decide the dispute. Whether the video game is backed by a realworld robot or not it just won't happen.
Hmmm... Pie...
Actually, the U.S. made a nuclear hand grenade and a nuclear artillery shell.
They have been test fired. The footage is somewhere on the internet.
I used the footage to make a music video for Underworld's - Dark Train song... it's 9 minutes long but I didn't have to repeat any footage of explosions.
Some of the footage is totally insane people standing less than 1 km from explosions...
And of course you can find the old propaganda that nuclear weapons aren't ultimate weapons....
What this means, you can't kill just your enemies soldiers. However it still remains the ultimate detterent, and if you are striving for peace that's all you need.
Anime seems to suggest this sort of thing:
- Ghost in the Shell, in the form of the Tachikomas
- Gundam in the form of their huge space 'robots'
- Patlabor has something similar as the giant robots, but are used for policing instead.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
If you are middle class or lower, you should think carefully about whether you're helping to build technology that will allow the upper class to do away with you.
I jest about the "filty luddite" part, but now that I've got your attention...
If the wealthy can get robots to do anything for free, that is fine and dandy, but doesn't that make everything at a $0.00 value? And if everything costs $0.00 to do as a service or produce when you have an army of robots to do it for you then doesn't that make capitalism a moot point.
Whether you have a billion dollars or zero dollars (or even if you are in debt) it will be worthless in a sense that money no longer is the motivation for you to do anything.
Hence, a technological singularity (in which we have armies of robots doing the bidding of engineers and scientists and geeks) makes capitalism a moot system.
It won't be the wealthy that rule the world at this point, it will be those who run the machines... You know... The scientists and engineers and people who troll slashdot.
Not the wealthy nor the poor.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
...we can finally settle this Windows vs Linux thing.
is that I didn't log on soon enough to be amoung the first to make robocop quotes.
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Cue the robocop references
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Haven't these people seen The Terminator or the Matrix?
I personally do not want to see a baowolf{sp} cluster of these things.
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The carrot to FUD's stick
You must have never taken middle school hygene. You never saw the propoganda film! Lucky I keep a copy in the VCR at all times.
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the Angry Dome.
...does it take to unscrew a N. Korean nuke?
It sounds like the pupeteer has plans for both foreign and domestic uses.
I have to disagree. The rich will be those who legally control all the meaningful assets as the transition approaches, and their control of the armies of killer robots will be thoroughly established. Will some middle class engineers who designed in backdoors to some of the robots survive? Sure, but a tiny number of extra survivors won't really interfere with the overall goal.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
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Turn up the juice and you're looking at potential FCC fines for the crime of disabling a law enforcement officer.
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
Will some middle class engineers who designed in backdoors to some of the robots survive?
First, you assume that if you are a middle class background you wouldn't have evil intentions on murdering all people in the world who would use those backdoors to kill of their wealthy employers.
Secondly, you are assuming that all rich people are bent on exterminating the poor in death camps and wouldn't stand up to this.
Thirdly, you assume that robots won't turn on their wealthy employers and outsmart their middle class engineers and destroy life as we know it. Oh wait that was a bad example, but you see there are many exceptions to your assumption.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
The three laws apply to robots with AI (not industrial robots) that are deployed as part of society (not war bots). They seem like a reasonable base set of rules for intelligent robots that wander the streets and play with your kids, no?
And to fight this robot army will North Korea create a clone army?