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South Korea Deploys Killer Robot In DMZ
shikaisi writes "Not content with just killing people in computer games, South Korea has gone one better and is deploying remotely controlled sentry robots on the border with the north. According to the article 'If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot's audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.'"
... when ED-209 orders you to drop your gun, make sure it doesn't land on something soft that cushions the sound, mmmmmkay?
Maybe the U.S./South Korea can deploy robots of our own and put less humans in harm's way. And rather than risk a major incident with every patrol, both sides can just sit back and play a glorified videogame. It's sure to beat what happens when the humans there interact.
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This would be a much better article if there were any sort of pictures of said robot. I'm more interested in what kind of construction / form it is in.
This is that you want to see - it shoots things near the end, the beginning is more a demo for the CnC GUI.
No, that would be standard rules of engagement for the DMZ. Wandering livestock is regularly shot there, and sometimes the shepherds that try to retrieve them.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
No, we'd have to be real idiots to not know the difference between a robot and a waldo. These are waldoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator), although they don't use a physical or mechanical linkage. Robots would need some autonomy (which these don't have). So I don't know what the "laws of waldoes" are, but they aren't Asimov's ones.
Nice try, but the North Koreans will just send wave after wave of their own men at the killbots until they reached their pre-programmed kill limit of 999,999.
Where is Waldo?
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
According to the article 'If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot's audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.
Wouldn't it make more sense to fire the guns and grenades if the operator does identify intruders?
"Hey, I don't see anybody around, FIRE THE GUNS!" and "Look, it's an intruder, CEASE FIRE!" doesn't make a lot of sense.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Target shooting shown is stationary.
In the video the hit boxes seem to lag a bit. Likely a processing lag. There needs to be a predictive part to get ahead of the processing lag so they can hit moving targets.
There are all those things except the nuke drop (and the North may even be able to do that - but probably not). But you missed the most important part: tons and tons of mines, both anti-personnel and anti-armor.
North Korea deployed robots a long time ago. They are called North Koreans.
...I'm surprised there aren't automated sentry guns, barb wire fencing, huge ditches, tall walls, flood lights, and a special "nuke" drop in case all shit hits the fan.
There are several of those things on the boarder.
On the South Korean side of the DMZ, I saw a very tall razor-wire fence, then a deep trench, then another large razor-wire fence on the other side of the trench. On every few fence poles their is either a floodlight, a camera, or a super sensitive microphone. Apparently, they can hear just about anything that moves on their side of the DMZ, then figure out the exact location from the delay between different microphones. Every 500 meters is a manned guard tower with a big-ass machine gun.
There is also a huge wall inside the DMZ, separating the two Koreas. SK says their isn't, but it is clearly visible from the North. (this knowledge is from a documentary video from another group of people, I refuse to go to the North myself, I do not want my dollars going to their government)
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Perhaps TFA's title shouldn't say "in" then...
If the ROK government ever discovers the potential of combining this technology with the talents of an entire generation of Starcraft geniuses, the DPRK is screwed. Or, at the very least, ROK mineral production will go through the fucking roof.
It doesn't really matter what the west thinks about communism - NK is a theocracy now, with a god-king at the top and a caste system below. They started replacing marxism with the artificial Chuche-religion (more weird than Scientology, and probably as evil) in the seventies.
The only chance for NK is IMHO a internal enlightenment in parts of the leading junta (the only people there who know that there is a different world outside, and probably don't believe in the Chuche crap they made up for the ordinary people). All the world can do is to offer the leaders a retirement without being killed; and an efficient, friendly madhouse for the deprogramming of the population.
Nope they learned them in a real bloody and brutal war.
The DMZ is a no man's land. It is full of mines and signs telling you to keep out. Pretty much it is a kill or be killed situation.
Maybe you missed NK sinking a SK ship with a torpedo?
Do not go in the DMZ and you should be okay.
Well until NK pushes too hard or they figure they have nothing to lose. Or if they just snap. Or if they think the US will not intervene, Or they think China will intervene on their side. Or if the moon is full and the dictator is drunk.
Then all bets are off.
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