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Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the get-to-tha-choppa dept.

opencity writes "The Register reports that the (perhaps inevitable) robot rebellion has been avoided ... for now. 'Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.' Gizmodo also has a good photo."

12 of 317 comments (clear)

  1. Surplus availability? by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how long before these are available at Army Surplus? I have some cute ideas for mods.

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    1. Re:Surplus availability? by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 4, Funny

      Camouflage for urban areas? You mean something like this?
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  2. I for one by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny
    welcome our new robotic ...

    On second thought.

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  3. I thought, everything that could go wrong in Iraq by Alex+Belits · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...already went wrong, yet US military always finds a way to surprise me.

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  4. Vista by methamorph · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should stop putting Vista into war robots.

    1. Re:Vista by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

      You must be mistaken; if they put Vista into these, they would just sit there motionless.

    2. Re:Vista by rishistar · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey this was definitely OSX man. Vista would have first asked: I am about to shoot you. Cancel/Allow?

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    3. Re:Vista by SirGarlon · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, it would be, "System Error: you are going to get shot now. Click OK to continue."

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  5. To recoup R&D costs.. by zmollusc · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could set up a much more interesting series of 'Robot Wars' (or whatever it was called in the states). Bolt a mannequin on top (i presume they are autonamous and target humans) of each robot and film the results of the robots roaming around some quarry.

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  6. Re:Or Viagra by EdIII · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was scared BEFORE reading the article...

    But INSANE WarBots running around with loaded machine guns AND Viagra powered erections just makes me want to crawl into a dark closet with my blankie....

  7. seemed like a good idea at the time by nguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Putting artificial intelligence on a Pentium, putting the whole thing on a mobile platform, giving it the ability to connect to the Internet, and to top it all off, give it a bunch of machine guns. It seemed like a good idea at the time. What could possibly go wrong?

  8. Re:One of the problems. by louks · · Score: 5, Funny
    "I have yet to write a single script or program that didn't have a bug in it. And I don't think I'm unique in this aspect."

    It's easy:

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
    20 GOTO 100
    ...dang it.