First step towards a real life Terminator?

[Nos]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4199935.stm

Officials say the robot warrior is fast, accurate and will track and attack the enemy with relatively little risk to the lives of US soldiers.

I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. And a can of WD40.

On a more serious note, this does seem like scary stuff. Could this be the first real step towards autonomous armed attack robots?

 

[Gray]

lol yeah...

" with relatively little risk to the lives of US soldiers. "

What about the guys fighting from the UK? Does the commands have Friendlyfire "0" ?

 

[Bodhi]

Number 5 is alive!

 

[Munkey]

Hope they have enough extension cord

 

[old.Tohtori]

They should get 15 year old CS kiddies controlling those with a cordless mouse and eleet split keyboard

"Hey, i'm JAck, i'm 15 and i killed over 200 people in this kick a** game named Iraq Mayhem 2004. It has kewlest graphics evah!"

 

[Ch3tan]

Too many Iraqi rebels with fucking OGC. The Cs kiddie would go crazy.

 

[rynnor]

On a more serious note, this does seem like scary stuff. Could this be the first real step towards autonomous armed attack robots?

Nah this is more what is classed a drone than a robot due to the remote control - it looks incredibly similar to the bomb disposal unit so it probably had the user interface modified the most.

The US love drones - they use a number of flying drones already for reconaissance etc. its part of the ethos of minimal exposure of their troops (because video of body bags is bad for morale back home).

I guess you could eventually hack into their control signal if you had the right gear - now that would be messy...

 

[SAS]

Stairs would be a problem, and im sure its not that fast? One RPG could deal with it in seconds?

 

[Nos]

Nah this is more what is classed a drone than a robot due to the remote control

I never said that it wasn't, but surely if in 40 years time we have AI controlled robots manning battlefields then historians will look back at this and call it the first step.

 

[Gef]

I bet that would give Sir Killalot a run for its money

 

[dysfunction]

Its not as good as this robot!

https://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=42500

 

[Aada]

As someone already said in 10-30 years there will be AI robots guarding banks/police stations and going to war its only a matter of time before some big brain figures out how to do it.

Then yes i think we could all safely shit our pants everytime Terminator 2 comes on.

 

[PLightstar]

Oh I saw them on a military show last year, but it was still mainly in the prototype stage with comp-gen video's of them in action with machine gun cannon's and the new Flak Cannon, wich is the scariest Weapon ever made, from the bio the Flak rips soft material (flesh) to pieces in seconds and burns at the same time. The US marines say its great because they can fire it over walls to get ppl on the other side.

 

[dysfunction]

from the bio the Flak rips soft material (flesh) to pieces in seconds and burns at the same time. The US marines say its great because they can fire it over walls to get ppl on the other side.

Yes that does sound great...

 

[Tenko]

got any links for file info on that flak cannon?

I'm still trying to find info on the lightning cannon riot gun I saw a couple of years back (basically a taser that used a laser to ionise an air path down thich an electric shock could be transmitted, ouch!).

I've got to stack up on cool gear for my bosses secret island HQ

 

[PLightstar]

i couldn't find a link I saw it on some Bravo Show about Military Hardware, but I did find this:

http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5021601.shtml

 

[pinkeyes]

Number 5 is alive!

Lmao

 

[Tom]

Number 5 is alive!

heh can't believe nobody else noticed this.....

 

[Disorderly And Drunk]

This thread needs more ed 209. he also had a problem with stairs