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U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fourth-law-is-don't-look-at-me-i'm-hideous dept.

buanzo writes "The US Army is deploying armed robots in Iraq that are capable of breaking Asmov's first law that they should not harm a human. SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) robots are equipped with either the M249, machine gun which fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute. " update this story refers to this article from 2005. But com'on, robots with machine guns! I don't get to think about that most days!

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  1. Re:Not really... by Gulthek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hell, even in Asimov's books all the stories were about the three laws' inherent shortcomings.