Sci-Fi
February 16th, 2005, 12:15 PM
Shades of the Cylons!!!! :eek: :wtf:
Howling Hank found this article
From The International Herald Tribune:
'GI, Robot' rolls toward the battlefield (http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/16/business/robot.html)
The American military is working on a new generation of soldiers, far different from the army it has.
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"They don't get hungry," said Gordon Johnson of the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command. "They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes."
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The robot soldier is coming.
A prototype, with a height of about four feet, or 1.2 meters, with a Cyclops eye and a gun for a right arm, stood in a workshop at the center recently. It readied, aimed and fired at a Pepsi can, performing the basic tasks of hunting and killing.
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:eek: :wtf: :salute: :Nsalute:
Howling Hank found this article
From The International Herald Tribune:
'GI, Robot' rolls toward the battlefield (http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/16/business/robot.html)
The American military is working on a new generation of soldiers, far different from the army it has.
.
"They don't get hungry," said Gordon Johnson of the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command. "They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes."
.
The robot soldier is coming.
A prototype, with a height of about four feet, or 1.2 meters, with a Cyclops eye and a gun for a right arm, stood in a workshop at the center recently. It readied, aimed and fired at a Pepsi can, performing the basic tasks of hunting and killing.
Click on the link for the full article.
:eek: :wtf: :salute: :Nsalute: