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Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-call-for-an-exterminator dept.

NightFalcon90909 writes "You may have heard that armed robots were yanked from Iraq after a gun started to swivel without it being told to do so. 'A recent news report that armed robots had been pulled out of Iraq is mistaken, according to the company that makes the robot [Foster-Miller] and the Army program manager. 'The whole thing is an urban legend,' says Foster Miller spokesperson Cynthia Black, of the reports about SWORDS moving its gun without a command.'"

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  1. Re:WTF is double-soldered? by cptgrudge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Any mod with a sense of humor will mod me Redundant. Careful doing this. I did stuff like this before in the past, and the metamods with no sense of humor eventually got me stripped of my ability to mod.
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  2. Re:It's Inevitable by thrash242 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gun-shooting robots are inevitable. ...and 100% awesome! PEW PEW!