US Military Wants Packs Of Robots To Hunt Humans

Well, to hunt down the bad kind or “uncooperative” ones anyway. This has a weird humour element as it manages to conjure an image of Bender calling to “kill all humans”.

From New Scientist:

The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” that will let packs of robots “search for and detect a non-cooperative human”.

One thing that really bugs defence chiefs is having their troops diverted from other duties to control robots. So having a pack of them controlled by one person makes logistical sense. But I’m concerned about where this technology will end up.

So, the author is concerned where this tech could end up?

The US military wants a droid army. What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, riiight.

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Posted by Dave Lewis on October 25, 2008. Filed under Military,Physical Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.