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Posted By STONERS 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsKiller robots could become the weapon of choice for militants, a British expert said on Wednesday.
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STONERS1 year, 8 months ago
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"The trouble is that we can't really put the genie back in the bottle. Once the new weapons are out there, they will be fairly easy to copy," Sharkey will tell a one-day conference organized by Britain's Royal United Services Institute on Wednesday."
"How long is it going to be before the terrorists get in on the act? With the current prices of robot construction falling dramatically and the availability of ready-made components for the amateur market, it wouldn't require a lot of skill to make autonomous robot weapons."
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ind061 year, 8 months ago
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"It wouldn't require a lot of skill to make autonomous robot weapons."
Certainly not ones that are, in effect, small helicopter-like devices. These could be manufactured cheaply and be extremely deadly. The Soviets came up with poisons so strong a mere grain was enough to kill a man. Imagine a fleet of 5,000 sparrow sized helicopter robots equipped with poison darts and programmed to fire on any recognized human shape. It could be done today for a fraction of the cost of one stealth bomber.
The next step would be to miniaturize them to the size of mosquitoes, a brave new world of assassination awaits us.
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grungeplunge1 year, 8 months ago
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The way these things typically run, all the world's major administrations will expectably pump inordinate amounts of tax payers' money into developing these thingies - and amateurs as well as trained terrorists will find tons of lean and mean ways to either make them entirely useless or will even construct more primitive models that'll wreak more indiscriminate havoc at a mere fraction of the cost.
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Charlson1 year, 8 months ago
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I want one of those killer bots for my home. It could vaporize the dust and grim and keep insects and varmints at bay. And pity the burgler who would attempt to break into my home.
But seriously, is this just the tip of another arms race? Machines that kill on a mission that their controller has programmed will not be able to distinguish friend from foe.
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TonyByron1 year, 8 months ago
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hizbollah has used at least one suspected "killer robot":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/...
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Nowalive1 year, 8 months ago
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It's easier and cheaper than you think, and has been done before. Look for a sharp rise in the RC hobby sales.
Radio Controlled helicopter: $250
1 pound of C4: $1200
Remote detonator: $50
Flying it into a crowded market and detonating it: SHAMELESS!!!
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SFCGuyW1 year, 8 months ago
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Killer robots were used in WWII by us and the Nazis. They looked like small tanks with a high antenna on them, but it was not an antenna - it was a contact detonator. These were released as enemy tanks approached, were attracted to the metal of the tanks (by a magnetic detector), drove towards the tanks and exploded when they made contact with the tanks. Unfortunately they would also do the same to any allied tanks in the area and were discontinued.
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AmericanIdiot1 year, 8 months ago
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Typical of the military industrial complex and the RAND corporation. The "robot gap" is being milked just like the phony "missile gap" of years ago, and the "race for space". All these lies were used to extort money from Congress and to frighten American civilians.
Just listen to these hypocrites, their lies betray them every time.
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injest1 year, 8 months ago
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Actually the Troops are already doing it and bypassing the "military industrial complex"
Impressive for a bunch of guy Sen. Kerry thinks are idiots
Troops Build Their Own UAVs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/141423...
"So the troops have been improvising. Radio controlled (RC) cars and aircraft are readily available from hobby stores"
The high end RC trucks cost several hundred dollars, but can be controlled from as far away as 200 meters.
These are often carried by troops on convoy duty, for checking out items on, or alongside, the road that might be bombs.
Just shooting at these objects doesn't always set them off. But run an RC car up to it, and ram the object, and you quickly know if it is heavy (and possibly a bomb), or light (and likely just some garbage.)
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injest1 year, 8 months ago
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Americanidiot:
"Typical of the military industrial complex and the RAND corporation. The "robot gap" is being milked just like the phony "missile gap" of years ago, and the "race for space". All these lies were used to extort money from Congress and to frighten American civilians."
Just listen to these hypocrites, their lies betray them every time.
If you have SUCH a problem with the "military industrial complex" why are you using the results of that "military industrial complex"
Your using a computer. Computers were developed for military fire control.
Your using the Internet. ARPANET (internet) IS a military "thing"
Do you use a cell phone? GPS for anything? A microwave oven?
How bout fiber optics? EFI in you car? Flying on jet aircraft?
Honestly you got a lot a dame gall to be calling anyone a "hypocrite"
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Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
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AHHHHH!!! Loooook out!!! Killer robots!!! AHHHHH!!!
Geez. There are so many ways to kill people that are so much less complicated that this is just part of the puzzle.
Choices, people, choices. Fear of killer robots, anthrax, terrorism of all kinds or hope to try and make a better world?
I guess fear sells more papers than hope.
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KarimiCjoy545311 year, 8 months ago
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I have read most of the comments here, WOW! OK there is a very strong possibility that sooner than any one really knows the killer robots will be a bigger part of human life; knowing this, does any one believe that it would be in the best interest of human kind and its development to learn to live in peace and if not peace than in respect for life. Live and let live. Just wondering if this possibility has crossed the mind of any one?!
KarimiCjoy
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Candida1 year, 8 months ago
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KarimiCjoy54531: "Live and let live. Just wondering if this possibility has crossed the mind of any one?!"
Yes, it has crossed great minds, but few people are listening.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
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Mutainia1 year, 8 months ago
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IF Muslim terrorist use them as suicide bombers, will those robots that exploded find themselves surrounded by 72 fembots and oil that never has to be changed? Whatever the case, you probably don't want to be around one of these things then hear it shout in a robotic voice, "Al-lah-u-ach-bar!"
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Will13131 year, 8 months ago
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We're working on autonomus(sp) vehicles also...
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technolog...
who do you think put up the 1,000,000 prize money.. none other than our department of defense......
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truthiness1 year, 8 months ago
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I was just watching the sarah conner chronicles and then I come here and this is the first article I see... spooky
we really seemed to be determined to wipe ourselves out. the nukes didnt do it, the bioweapons didnt do it, maybe the machines will do it...
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shallu1 year, 8 months ago
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