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A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets

Posted by timothy on from the next-week-at-thinkgeek dept.

cylonlover writes "If there's one place you don't want to be caught wandering around right now, it's the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea. Especially since South Korean military hardware manufacturer DoDAMM used the recent Korea Robot World 2010 expo to display its new Super aEgis 2, an automated gun turret that can detect and lock onto human targets from kilometers away, day or night and in any weather conditions, and deliver some heavy firepower."

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  1. Re:There's a really useful aspect to these. by ShakaUVM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >>I guess you're right, it's the lesser evil. Still, I find it scaring and can't understand what makes a human being work day after day to design and manufacture such an evil device. Clumsy and random, as Obi-Wan would put it.

    Maybe it was designed by a bunch of guys who didn't want to see their friends killed and wives raped.

    Weapons aren't evil when used to defend oneself.