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Street Fighting Robot Challenge

Posted by samzenpus on from the gun-jack dept.

ianchaos writes "There's no better way to assure the eventual destruction of mankind than by the event sponsored by Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency. Newscientist has a good writeup of the robot challenge, which is to build a robot that can operate autonomously in urban warfare conditions, moving in and out of buildings to search and destroy targets like a human soldier."

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  1. Too much too soon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's just start with a robot which can move in & out of buildings and *identify* targets.

  2. Re:Cheaper to Kill? How Much Is Our Image Worth? by Mongoose+Disciple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can't put a price on life.

    Not to nitpick too much, but people put a price on life all the time. Now, if you want to say that we shouldn't put a price on life, that's possibly another story.

    I think you do raise some interesting points and I agree with a lot of what you have to say, but ultimately I have to feel like it's a little overly optimistic/naive. I don't, for example, really see people who currently shelter violent terrorists shunning them if their crimes were to be known, because said people probably don't share your/our view of what constitutes innocent victims. How great it would be if the solution to all problems was just to tell people the truth, but I don't think that's the world we live in.

    Obligatory Simpsons: Salesman: Surely you can't put a price on your family's lives?
    Homer: I wouldn't have thought so either, but here we are.