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March 16, 2006
Domo arigato
First Law of Robotics violated; world yawns.*
Next month [February, 2005], the US Army will be putting robot soldiers in the field in Iraq. The SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) robots are fully armed; when the human operator verifies that a suitable target is within sight, it fires. They are equipped with either the M249 (which fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute) or the M240 (which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute).
*World wakes up... dead! Robots... laugh!
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 16, 2006 08:51 AM
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Would Asimov be offended or applaud the use of robots to save our forces from harm?
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at March 16, 2006 06:33 PM
