Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing

HarryCaul writes "Soldiers are finding themselves becoming more and more attached to their robotic helpers. During one test of a mine clearing robot, 'every time it found a mine, blew it up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a path through the minefield.' The man in charge halted the test, though - 'He just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine drag itself forward on its last leg. This test, he charged, was inhumane.' Sometimes the soldiers even take their metallic companions fishing. Is there more sympathy for Robot Rights than previously suspected?"

Comments

Re:robot's rights?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, if these guys has spent a little more time pulling the wings off of flies when they were kids

If you take the wings off of a fly, does it become a walk?

Re:Just administer the Voight-Kampff test

[someme2]

I think they should use steamrollers, or the equivalent thereof, to clear mine fields. Those solid steel drums can be built thick enough to withstand any ordinary land mine.

Yes, but they suck at fishing.