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Robot Wars

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Evil Scientist

08:50 / 22.10.07

A slightly different slant on the story seems to suggest that it's not really a robot in the "guided drone" sense of it. It's a cannon that can be set to continue firing by itself rather than independantly targetting and tracking.

Inside the robo-cannon rampage.

Obviously I will be covering the minutia of the cannon's specifications over in Armoury if anyone's interested. I've got plans to splice a Guinea Pig's brain into one so it can really go on a rampage.

Quantum

12:59 / 22.10.07

Crikey, it's probably already been done but with a dolphin. "Team Warrior", a killer robot manufacturing alliance led by General Atomics of San Diego, CA, announced yesterday that its Warrior Extended Range/Multi Purpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (ERMP UAS) would enter production for the US Army, another step in the US forces' ongoing effort to automate most military activities.

So we can expect battlefield hackers soon, right? Bulletproof laptops, crawling toward the Terminator's I/O port, shooting off bursts of ECM virtual chaff at the Warrior drones...

Quantum

13:03 / 22.10.07

Here's an article intertwine posted elsewhere on three recent military robots.

grant

16:10 / 22.10.07

I would simply like to point out that the URL for the "Team Warrior" link leads to a file called "flesh reaper dole misery."

Which probably reveals more about our attitudes to battle robots than it means to.

Quantum

16:16 / 23.10.07

I quite liked the title 'US killer robots take jobs from dolphins'

^v^ Athrun ^v^

02:08 / 27.10.07

While in the Navy I worked a lot around (but not with) prototype bomb diffusing robots and the like. I know there are more sophisticated 'bots in development, but the bomb disposal drones don't seem to complicated, basically an RC car with an arm and a grappler.

Evil Scientist

12:03 / 29.10.07

I know there are more sophisticated 'bots in development, but the bomb disposal drones don't seem to complicated, basically an RC car with an arm and a grappler.

I think I'd be more comfortable with human-operated bomb disposal drones (to distinguish in-thread from autonomous robots) anyway. I'm not sure I'd trust a robot not to be out-witted by a crafty bomb-maker.

jentacular dreams

12:13 / 29.10.07

Though couldn't an RC disposal device be stopped by a broad spectrum radio signal contained within the bomb itself?

Evil Scientist

12:20 / 29.10.07

I think that they are controlled by wire rather than radio-transmission, purely to avoid inadvertant detonation of bombs.

Evil Scientist

12:11 / 15.11.07

Forget those pesky rogue artillery drones.

Daddy's home!

Remember everyone, there is no future but what we make.

Closed for Business Time

12:25 / 15.11.07

Tch.. Forget drones, bring out the cyborgs!

Towards the Gundam!

Quote:
"A high-tech armament system for infantry soldiers sparked interest among anime fans at a recent Ministry of Defense research presentation when officials announced that it was designed with the Gundam anime series in mind."

Quantum

09:38 / 01.04.09

Many killed in 'US drone attack'

"A missile fired by a suspected US drone has killed at least 10 people in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, eyewitnesses say."

Ruobhe

00:31 / 17.05.09

Cyborgs, drones, yeah yeah, scary, but have you heard about chobots?

The swarm is coming.

jentacular dreams

12:50 / 16.07.09

Run! The robots are coming to eat us!

Quantum

07:15 / 21.10.09

xkcd points out we already have fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies;

Apologies for the page break, but it *is* an awesome strip.

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