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Wall-E Lookalike Wins British War Robot Showdown
longacre writes "Following in the footsteps of DARPA's Urban Challenge, in which robotic vehicles had to navigate a complex obstacle course without human intervention, the UK upped the ante with its own Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge: within a mock enemy village, robots were instructed to find potential targets and make distinctions between armed troops, roadside bombs and snipers. The winning entry, Team Stellar's SATURN system, actually consists of three vehicles: a low level drone and a tracked ground vehicle transmit reconnaissance data to a high-altitude robotic relay aircraft, which proceeds to phone that data home to a central processing center. Upon announcing the winner yesterday, MoD said they are 'carefully considering if technologies demonstrated in the final can be incorporated into future frontline kit for the Armed Forces. It is possible that the winning team will have invented a product that can be developed rapidly for the front line.'"
Clumsy robotic overlords? Anyone...?
Ahh, forget it.
The trash is people.
God spoke to me.
Just what the world needs, a robotic killing machine that likes to hold hands.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
But... but... But it's an enemy village! And that would be HARD! =P
Well, there are notable similarities.
For example, it has tank treads, just like WALL-E. Also, it has binocular-type eyes, similar to WALL-E.
However, the same could be said of an AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter sitting on top of an M1A1 Abrams tank. :)
Anyone that runs, is a VC. Anyone that stands still, is a well-disciplined VC.
WALL-E, War Associate to Locate and Liquidate the Enemies.
Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.
Or French.
Or lazy and French.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
So if i drop them in texas, no one will be left?
Would also be a nice drop-in (ehhrm) for terrorist HQs like the Mugabe HQ, Cheney HQ, Ahmadinedschad HQ, and so on... O:-)
I, for one welcome... No, for real... I welcome them. :)
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Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Perhaps it should also distinguish between friendly troops and enemy troops. It would be one-up on US military solutions.
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The robot's only weakness would be Chuck Norris.
Well...maybe I can get a lego-storm version?
Why uncomfortable, did it touch you..? ;)
Can we design a robot to seek out and neutralize the "trigger-happy morons"?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Just make sure that the robots have a preset kill limit. Then you can send wave after wave of your own men in, until they shut down.
Anyone that runs, is a VC. Anyone that stands still, is a well-disciplined VC.
VC ... Venture Capitalist? So, we're talking about a war with venture capitalists?
I like it!
DARPA and the MOD tried to have a joint challenge, however most of the British robots were shot or run over by the American robots during the exercise.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Shouldn't it be armed with a bayonet, have a red jacket and run on tea?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You would think in a UK competition there would be at least one of those remote control Daleks running around hollering "EXTERMINATE!!!"
-When going for broke, go for Ithaca!
But how will we fund it?! Damn!