South Korea’s armed sentry robots which we discussed here and here have actually been deployed along South Korea’s border with the North. So far they are stationary only (as far as we know.) Once they are built onto mobile platforms, perhaps then people will begin to consider the ethical questions posed by the use of autonomous killing machines. (Yes, the [...]
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South Korea deploys their armed sentry robots (new video)
Posted by Eric on July 19th, 2010
Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, ethics, military / law enforcement, video, weapon 
Tags: Korea, sentry 
No Comments »UK military unveils “Taranis” – semi-autonomous, flying, armed robot
Posted by Eric on July 15th, 2010
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Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, ethics, flying, government, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: aircraft, autonomous, flying, Taranis, uav, UK, weapon No Comments »AVX Aircraft also vying to build DARPA’s flying SUV
Posted by Eric on July 13th, 2010
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Posted in DARPA, defense, flying, military / law enforcement Tags: DARPA, flying, suv, vtol No Comments »Logi Aerospace vying to build DARPA’s VTOL flying SUVs
Posted by Eric on July 2nd, 2010
Some of DARPA’s requirements for the vehicles: * flying/driving range of 250 miles * measure no more than 30 feet long by 8.5′ wide and 9′ high * perform vertical take-off and landing * carry four people * perform unmanned operations * and be easy enough to control that anyone who can drive a Humvee [...]
Posted in DARPA, defense, flying, government, military / law enforcement Tags: DARPA, flying car, suv, vtol 2 Comments »Autonomous mobile assault robot with target-tracking abilities (seems like bad idea)
Posted by Eric on June 30th, 2010
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Posted in autonomous, defense, ethics, featured, milestone, military / law enforcement, video, weapon Tags: camera, drone, laser, rgb, tank, tracking No Comments »Predator drones are now patrolling US/Mexico border
Posted by Eric on June 15th, 2010
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Posted in defense, flying, government, milestone, military / law enforcement Tags: aerial, border, drone, predator, uav, US No Comments »Non-profit research organization CTC developing new military robots
Posted by Eric on June 14th, 2010
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Posted in AI, aquatic, autonomous, defense, featured, military / law enforcement, research Tags: Air Force, CTC, defense, military, navy No Comments »Navy robots stopped responding to commands, disappeared from radar
Posted by Eric on June 10th, 2010
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Posted in aquatic, military / law enforcement Tags: awol, missing, navy, rogue, stray, uuv No Comments »Robots in Combat: A True Revolution or Just Techno-Hype?
Posted by Eric on June 9th, 2010
An article at nationaldefensemagazine.org yesterday commented: P.W. Singer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the bestseller “Wired for War, recently spoke “…about the staggering rise in the deployment of robots on the battlefield. The U.S. military had only a handful of robots when it invaded Iraq. Now it operates 7,000 unmanned aircraft and more [...]
Posted in AI, DARPA, defense, ethics, flying, future, government, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: combat, hype, military, revolution No Comments »Frightening robot police vehicle to hunt down, pull over speeders
Posted by Eric on June 8th, 2010
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