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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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"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
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.
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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spiders robots? come'on, it's so much easier -though less stylish- just pressing buttons and nuking the weak guys. i guess korean politicians and stakeholders are /. material, major geeks with the hazardous add-on of unlimited funding...
i can't wait to see a combat between brazilian robot bees and peruvian mechanical guinea pigs
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?
In the US we call them "State Troopers"
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which are they going to develop first, their Army or their Police Robots?
This post expresses my opinion, not that of my employer. And yes, IAAL.
They would gladly do exactly what the current leader says, be it Clinton...
Do they have robotic cigars?
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Sure, but Asimov was a fucking pussy.
... and then they built the supercollider.
police drone rush kekekekekeke ^_____________^
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.
Yeah, but can you program a droid to execute order 66? Sure it works with clones, but...
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.
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I picture a giant 8 legged robotic spider jumping out of its hiding place, letting out a 150 dB roar (the sound effect for t-rex in Jurassic park would work well) and then chasing the criminal down the road (these things would be fast, and loud on account of their heavy weight breaking the concrete sidewalk). Once it caught them it would pin them down, release a squirt of rotting flesh smell for effect and then 'eat' them into the holding cage in their belly.
The criminal would never commit a crime again! Although they would probably need new pants
The sound of a pistol being cocked doesn't have/need a language.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Wait, am I really the first to welcome our new RoboCop overlords? I wonder why...
Since when do people in the real world have to abide by some rules created by a dead author for use in his science FICTION books?
*cough*SCIENTOLOGY*cough*
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Isn't it obvious? Duh...
Japanese make friendly servant robots (to help old people).
Japanese are lonely.
Koreans make battle/guard robots. With weapons. So humans don't have to fight.
Koreans are scared.
Americans make rescue robots, unmanned aerial vehicles.
Americans are lost.
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