This is the Mechatronic Security Robot by Beatty Robotics. Weighing 45 pounds, it is armored, can move in any direction, can hone in on targets using 8 ultrasonic sensors, and can fire 1,000 projectiles per minute. AND put on a light show while doing it. See for yourself: Mechatron Robot from Robert Beatty on Vimeo. Read [...]
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Homemade armored gunbot finds targets ultrasonically, aims gun accordingly
Posted by Eric on November 25th, 2011
Armed and Autonomous
Posted by Eric on September 30th, 2011
PopSci’s Clay Dillow recounts last month’s AUVSI unmanned robotics conference entitled “Armed and Autonomous.” “It all sounds a bit Skynet, but it’s moving forward at a rapid pace…” [more at PopSci]
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Tags: autonomous, DARPA, drone, predator, reaper, weapon 
No Comments »C.R.A.B. Police robot
Posted by Eric on July 30th, 2010
C.R.A.B. (Cybernetic Remote Autonomous Barricade) police robots are just a concept for now. They will probably be more than a concept soon. And why shouldn’t they? What could go wrong? Something like this? [yankodesign] via [slashgear]
Posted in AI, autonomous, biomimetic, defense, ethics, government, military / law enforcement, video, weapon Tags: c.r.a.b., crab, ed209, police No Comments »Armed robots to keep us in line
Posted by Eric on July 27th, 2010
“Robotic sentries are presently patrolling Israel’s 70-kilometer Gaza border, and South Korea’s 250-kilometer DMZ. Russia has developed a remarkably lethal beast — the MRK-27-BT — touted as superior to the USA’s SWORDS in Iraq, and Australia shot into the market with its ferociously-named Redback Metal Storm.” Full article at [h+online]
Posted in AI, autonomous, DARPA, defense, ethics, future, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: armed robots, dystopia No Comments »Video of laser phalanx shooting down unmanned aerial vehicle
Posted by Eric on July 21st, 2010
Raytheon CGI rendition: As we initially reported here, we now have the ability to shoot down aircraft with high-powered lasers. The LaWS (Laser Weapon System) and Maritime Laser Weapon Systems are built onto the Phalanx target-tracking platform, but use lasers instead of bullets to take down targets. Raytheon’s Maritime Laser Weapon System was just [...]
Posted in DARPA, defense, flying, milestone, military / law enforcement, video, weapon Tags: anti-aircraft, laser, LaWS, Maritime Laser Weapon System, phalanx, r2-d2, Raytheon, uav No Comments »South Korea deploys their armed sentry robots (new video)
Posted by Eric on July 19th, 2010
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 [...]
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 »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 »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 »Robotic laser canon shoots down flying robots – welcome to the future!
Posted by Eric on June 1st, 2010
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Posted in DARPA, defense, flying, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: anti-missile, auto-target, laser, LaWS, phalanx, r2-d2, robot No Comments »
