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Killer robots could become the weapon of choice for militants, a British expert said on Wednesday.

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STONERS
Feb. 26, 2008, 7:59 p.m.
"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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grungeplunge
Feb. 26, 2008, 9:34 p.m.
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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klr60
Feb. 26, 2008, 10:42 p.m.
My God, what's next???
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BoxMonkey
Feb. 27, 2008, 1:36 a.m.
This some serious stuff , but inevidable . Thanx STONERS .
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Spadecaller
Feb. 27, 2008, 7:55 a.m.
Our ability for finding improved methods for destroying life continue to exceed our need for finding better ways to protect life.
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Charlson
Feb. 27, 2008, 8:37 a.m.
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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TonyByron
Feb. 27, 2008, 10:09 a.m.
hizbollah has used at least one suspected "killer robot":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/...
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Nowalive
Feb. 27, 2008, 10:22 a.m.
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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SFCGuyW
Feb. 27, 2008, noon
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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Ciera-Marie
Feb. 27, 2008, 5:07 p.m.
SFCguyW do you have a link that supports this? I'm curious about this and would like ti know more.
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AmericanIdiot
Feb. 27, 2008, 12:05 p.m.
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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Bkumm
Feb. 27, 2008, 1:55 p.m.
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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sumptuousdigs
Feb. 27, 2008, 3:03 p.m.
Fembots! Run for your lives! Wait...are those things loaded? Uh oh! I've known this was coming since I was five.
The imagination's the limit...
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KarimiCjoy54531
Feb. 27, 2008, 3:59 p.m.
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?!
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pawfoots
Feb. 27, 2008, 4:03 p.m.
Maybe Tom Cruise will infect them with a strain of a simple human virus that they have no defense against and save the world . . . oh, nevermind, that's aliens.
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BronxBomber
Feb. 27, 2008, 7:46 p.m.
Pardon us if we don't thank you for you're useless spam. Reported, negged and hopefully terminated from propeller.
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BLKEDU
Feb. 27, 2008, 4:22 p.m.
bad news. worser than road side bombs.
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ConquistadorForLife
Feb. 27, 2008, 5:02 p.m.
it will happen eventually.
and we will probably have terminator style :)
i donno ifi will be alive...
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globalwarmer
Feb. 27, 2008, 5:23 p.m.
Why would terrorist use a robot to deliver bombs when they have plenty of volunteers?
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Mutainia
Feb. 27, 2008, 7:52 p.m.
Something tells me these robots don't follow Zeroth's Law of Robotics.
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Will1313
Feb. 27, 2008, 8:01 p.m.
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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truthiness
Feb. 27, 2008, 9:10 p.m.
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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Isoparm
Feb. 27, 2008, 10:33 p.m.
If the evolution of these machines follow normal dynamical behavior, they will ultimately become self-preserving. As to whether or not they would even want to bother with us, remains to be seen. It should be interesting.
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Feb. 28, 2008, 1:20 a.m.
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Mutainia
Feb. 27, 2008, 7:53 p.m.
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