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Killer robots pose latest militant threat
- ivankirigin 19y agoI'm amazed when professors do work that amounts to little more than link bait. Prediction: Robot militants will have sex with humans in nanotech super-AI gray goo.
- jgrahamc 19y agoThis has been extremely obvious to anyone working on DIY drones. This was discussed last year on the DIY Drones web site: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844:BlogPost:2765 http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844:BlogPost:2...
- noonespecial 19y agoAlso people have been flying remote controlled aircraft since the 50's. You don't need a super-duper autonomous gps guided drone when you can just stand on the roof with the remote. Just look at how they use IED's and cell phones. All of this raises the inevitable question: If a robot does the killin', does it get 72 virgin sexbots?
- ivankirigin 19y agoRemote detonation via signal wire is replacing cell-activated IEDs. You can counter a radio signal, but not a hard wire that is inactive till it is tripped. Think of those old TNT levers that set off some old movie explosion, with the wire coiling away from the bomb. Those lines are buried for kilometers. Someone on a phone calls the person who is going to trip the bomb right as the convoy approaches. It is a really hard problem to counter. The best detection rate will likely be from a vision algorithm that can detect changes in the dirt around some garbage pile used to cover a IED. That kind of vision algorithm is extremely hard to make. Either way, bombs are already automated. Even third world countries make use of the most vicious robot in the world, requiring no recharge, and lasting for decades: land mines.
- boredguy8 19y agoThat's just because only superpowers can afford "god rods": http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/700oklkt.asp http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00...
- dkokelley 19y agoAbout 6 years ago I worked on my own "Battlebot." The thought of mounting a camera and a machine gun to the thing certainly crossed my mind as a simple "lifeless soldier" option for the military.
- Hexstream 19y agoI'm more concerned about Bush getting those than the alleged terrorists.