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Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled
mpthompson writes "Samsung has partnered with a Korean university to develop a robotic sentry equipped with a 5.5mm machine gun. Meant for deployment along the DMZ between North and South Korea, the $200,000 robot employs sophisticated pattern recognition software for targeting humans. No three laws here, but the robot does include a speaker that can be used to politely issue a warning before taking the target out. The promotional video is both scary and funny at the same time."
Wow, I haven't had to go through 3 blogs to get to the source article before. Here it is: the article.
they use the theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean as the soundtrack to their promotional vid...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
Just because the war ended
The war didn't end. That requires a surrender or peace treaty.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Anti-personnel mines are fairly harmless against a tank and anti-tank mines can be disarmed by a person. So often they are used together, an anti-tank mine surounded by anti-personnel mines.
degenerated into the Crazy Olympics
Degenerated? "Crazy Olympics?"
It isn't even a contest. South Korea is left setting on the bench, consoled by its modern economy and democracy. The field is North Korea all the way.
North Korea has the:
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Runner Up
and "Miss Congeniality"
With the recently added events, they could be in an even better medal position next year.
I think that North Korea's official motto must be the inverse of Google's.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
No. Simple fact is a lot of those mines in the DMZ were designed to stop tracked vehicles, not foot soldiers, although I'm sure a foot soldier would fare much worse against one if somehow triggered. There is a big difference between a small anti-personnel mine and an anti-tank mine (Hey uncle sam, you can't say I never learned anything in the Army!).
But that being said this robot is designed to patrol a known area where the users know the locations of the mines, because they planted them. The robot is created to take men out of harms way and serve as an ever watchful eye. If an attack comes this is not the last defense, only the first.
Mines will get improved for better killing capabability,
Mines are not designed to kill - they are designed to blow someone's legs off and leave them screaming on the battlefield. Psychological effects aside, this design choice is very economical. Killing a soldier takes one person out of a war. Maiming them takes not only the victim out, but also the one or two soldiers who carry them back, the supplies to transport them to medical facilities, a bed in the hospital, and the time of the medical staff treating them.
It's the intent to maim bit that caused mines to be banned (plus the fact that no one cleans them up after a conflict).