Robots for War

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Another way to dehumanize war--instead of sending in people
>who might have a consious---send in the bots, and no one
>will have to think about it....KRD
>
>
>Military robots well trained for war
>Monday, January 13, 2003 Posted: 10:54 AM EST (1554 GMT)
>
>Helen Greiner, president and co-founder of iRobot, stands
>by the $45,000 "PackBot," which her company made for
>military use. 
>
>SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (AP) -- In future wars, robots
>may drop from the sky by the hundreds from unmanned
>aircraft, swarming like giant insects over battlefields in
>coordinated, terrifying assaults.
>
>But that is a decades-away scenario.
>
>For now, military planners and robot designers are simply
>trying to improve devices -- some of which could see action
>soon in Iraq -- by incorporating lessons from Afghanistan,
>where robots saw their first significant military action.
>
>You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the military who
>says robots will one day replace soldiers.
>
>Full:
>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/13/robots.atwar.ap/index.html

What will happen one of these days is that enemies will learn to 
disrupt radio signals, hijack command and control of robots, and even 
reprogram them to turn them against the US military.
-- 
Yoshie

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