Comments on: Design robots to hunt humans

By: benjaminvallen1

benjaminvallen1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:12:52 +0000

If their are multiple provisions in the base code that prevent the robot from targeting non-hostile people, this shouldn’t be a problem. If you slave that coding to an auto-shutdown, you should be able to render it useless if it tried to take unauthorized action.

Sounds good to me.

By: Obama

Obama — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:20:18 +0000

I am barack obama and I approve this article

By: apaco

apaco — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:19:28 +0000

“Just head to your local animal shelter. I’m sure you can find one that will lick your face, wag a tail, and poop in your yard.”
at least it won’t do this
I’m sure you can find one that will lick your tail, wag a yard, and poop in your face.

By: CGann

CGann — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:08:16 +0000

“That picture is horribly misleading. the military does not attach weapons to autonomous robots”

Posted at 7:47 pm on Nov 7th, 2008 by ortzinator

…Yet!

Do a quick google on “Boston Dynamics Big Dog” (YoutTube link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww)

The multi-terrain platform is already there. Now it’s just the sensing hard/software. I say, start with thermal vision.

By: Bryan Thielbar

Bryan Thielbar — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:11:49 +0000

ROFL NO! Will not build a real war bot… That’s why we have soldiers… I don’t belive that is even going to be legal, for the government to use in a war situation…

By: damntech

damntech — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:04:46 +0000

Rasti, They already made that movie it was called “Toys” and it sucked.

By: Rasti

Rasti — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:07:18 +0000

If remote controlled, Govt can hire gamers of online Shooting games (those with high score)
to control the killing machine without risk from teir homes, if the shooter starts to fail, it can be replaced by the next.
They can even replace the remote shooter every hour to avoid fatigue an make the device work 24×7.
Every time the shooter kills somebody, will receive instantly a payment via paypal/visa, etc.
The shooters can even be tricked (if a VR interface with a lots of computer graphics overlayed is used) into false missions randomly, so they will not know for sure if they really
kill somevody.
This way Govt will avoid trials about psichological damage of the shooter, shooters feeling guilty, etc

Of course my comment is ironic, but i think that somebody will put a project like this to work
for sure.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:35:10 +0000

Just progress, I’d say. But I love their little “search and rescue applications” appeal to conscience. They always say that—but just as soon as they get their greedy hands on a new weapon app, it’s killy-killy time!

By: alfantino

alfantino — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:55:37 +0000

at last, after the man tired killing the man, it will be continued by the robot to kill the man. The killing is the first human sin done by the son of adam and eva and it will be continued to the end of the human life.

By: ortzinator

ortzinator — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:47:09 +0000

That picture is horribly misleading. the military does not attach weapons to autonomous robots

By: blankthemuffin

blankthemuffin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:31:51 +0000

MANHACKS!

By: featheredfrog

featheredfrog — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:48:48 +0000

No mention of "Screamers" yet? Yow.

By: angus

angus — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:20:26 +0000

oh man…so now the army is putting civilians in charge of building a weapon against themselves. Can’t wait to see these roaming the streets in 20 years.

By: The Steven

The Steven — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:04:41 +0000

….and so it begins.

By: damntech

damntech — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:15:36 +0000

Maybe this is why reenlistment is way up. They expect to play with awesome military tech gear. :) Actually that’s an understatement we know the mil has some of the coolest gear and we are all jealous.

ED-209 just needs to chill with the butterfly’s
http://www.elfwood.com/fanq/t/a/tavisharts/ed_209.jpg.html