robots killing iraqis (graphic image)

[no_to_war_economy]

well not yet but if Rummy gets his way

US plans 'robot troops' for Iraq

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4199935.stm

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. But can the robot find Sarah Connor?

[YOY]

2. Beat me to it! n/t

[Richard D]

3. !!!!!

"Mr Quinn says there are plans to replace the computer screen, joysticks and keypad in the remote-control unit with a Gameboy-style controller and virtual-reality goggles."

[Harald Ragnarsson]

26. Now the Freepers can go to war! About the only way n/t

[PassingThrough]

4. That photo does not go to that story. Where is it from?

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. Short Circuit 3?

[PassingThrough]

9. Thing is holding a revolver. Lol

[no_to_war_economy]

11. the source of the picture is from this story

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060217/D8FQUMVG5.html

A body of an attacker is inspected by a remotely controlled U.S. military robot, in Baghdad, Friday, Feb. 17, 2005. The attacker was killed in self defense by the owner of a watch shop when he and other two gunman tried to assassinate him. The other two escaped. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

[PassingThrough]

14. Fair enough but then your posting title is incorrect and adding that

pic to that story is misleading at best. Also, have a link to that picture?


Peace Out

[no_to_war_economy]

23. c'mon this is the age of impression management

you were managed is all

yes much more peace out in this world

[sui generis]

5. what is that picture?

did they just test this by rolling it up to a civilian somewhere and killing her?

the sad part is that it so easy to conceive. Obviously this was filmed. I want to see what happened before. How did the robot get there? How did she get there? How did the camera get there.

[PassingThrough]

6. Looks fake.

[Posteritatis]

10. It's legit, just completely unrelated

I saw that picture a year or two ago, rather closer to the latter than the former. The robot was a bomb disposal unit dealing with a flubbed suicide bombing in Israel; the guy lying on the ground (who survived, incidentally) was either wounded by soldiers or by one of his colleagues' explosives going off, I forget which. Going on the assumption that the guy was carrying explosives, they sent the BDU to check him out first, which doesn't exactly strike me as an unwise thing to do in the circumstances.

Incidentally, the robot's unarmed. It's got a "hand" and some cameras.

[PassingThrough]

12. Lol, looks like someone added a revolver to its hand.

[Posteritatis]

15. That's the left claw of the pincer/hand

You can see the other one on the other side of the arm. It's at a weird angle.

[no_to_war_economy]

13. no it happened today in Baghdad

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060217/D8FQUMVG5.html

A body of an attacker is inspected by a remotely controlled U.S. military robot, in Baghdad, Friday, Feb. 17, 2005. The attacker was killed in self defense by the owner of a watch shop when he and other two gunman tried to assassinate him. The other two escaped. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

[Posteritatis]

16. It's still just a BDU, not a Terminator. (n/t)

[no_to_war_economy]

20. not yet

Make Robots Not War

Some Scientists Refuse to Get Paid for Killer Ideas

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

19. I think it is 2006 now

but, I could be wrong

[no_to_war_economy]

21. your right .. the AP is wrong

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

22. I see that. Yes, today

So I guess planning to deploy is the wrong tense.

[bridgit]

7. does the texas ranch owner where cheney shot his "friend" in the...

face, have a lobbyist interest in the manufacture of these as a high priced, highly expendable, highly renewable no-bid defense contract in the future bfee excursions into islamic, oil rich territories?

[spanone]

17. Take me to your leader...

[Broadslidin]

18. Finally, The Carlyle Group Is Coming To The Rescue........!

:toast: Foster-Miller will soon have manufacturing facilities
Up and Going 24/7 in Guangzhou, Communist China.

[cascadiance]

24. Bring on "I, Robot" for real...

Down with Asimov's laws of robotics! :(

[Silverhair]

25. Take a look at the stuff that is in development.

Your picture is of a Talon robot designed for bomb disposal. Some Talons have had guns and cameras mounted to them.

Here is one that is designed from the start as a combat robot. The tubes in front are not weapons. They are used to launch smoke grenades to enable the bot to hide in an instant smoke cloud. It would be able to see through it's own smoke using infared. So it can shoot you but you won't be able to aim your RGP-7.



That is a two year old picture. Information used to be easy to find, but I am having a hard time finding anything recent.

[no_to_war_economy]

27. my post was to show the idea of how it might be one day

one day very soon

[Silverhair]

28. Take a look at this. Real "Mech Warriors"

http://www.gizmag.com/go/4004/

Take a look at items 2,4, and 12.

The Land Walker can only move at 1 mph, but a little bit of development can change that.