Comments on: DefconBots sentry gun competition

By: Quinn Richter

Quinn Richter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:51:53 +0000

I agree Wolf, I would have to see how well it could sense enemies rather than you. But if it worked just as well as the Sentry Gun in Team Fortress 2 i would use it! :)

By: Iv

Iv — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:41:27 +0000

quinn, welcome to the world of today :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry_gun

By: miked

miked — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:12:33 +0000

i approve of this post

By: Kevin Hjelden

Kevin Hjelden — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:56:10 +0000

Also related is our last years gun: http://www.burntpopcorn.net/defcon_bot/

By: Wolf

Wolf — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:07:53 +0000

Idk, if they got good enough, I’d rather have an unnerving, but consistent armed robot watching my back than some easily startled rookie with a reflexive trigger finger. Yes, its possible that it may kill me in error, but its not as if the alternatives couldn’t do the same. Personally, I’d feel safer with whichever one proves to be less error prone, which could very well be the robots.

Humans are hackable too btw, except, in our case, the word for it is propaganda.

By: Quinn Richter

Quinn Richter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:44:14 +0000

Can i say scary!? I mean imagine a world with robots carrying guns and relying on sensors and hackable software to differentiate between good and bad. /scary