Dan Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 SEOUL, Sept. 29, 2006 — South Korea has unveiled an armed robot that it says will able to detect and repel intruders along its heavily armed border with North Korea. The so-called "Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot" uses visual and infra-red detection to distinguish between humans, trees, and vehicles, and can do so from 2.5 miles away during the day and about half that at night. "Until now, technology allowed these robots to conduct monitoring function only. But [now] our robots can detect suspicious moving objects, literally go after them, and can even fire at them," said Sang-Il Han, principal research engineer at Samsung Techwin. Once the target is within 10 meters, it will demand a pre-programmed military secret code. If this code is not provided, it could give three possible responses: sound an alarm, fire rubber bullets or open fire with a K-3 machine gun. Since 2003 South Korea' s government and private sector have invested $5 million each on developing military robots in an attempt to prevent future loss of military manpower — especially important in light of South Korea's dwindling birthrate. This ten million dollar project is set to be marketed next year. The robots will also be tauted for use in guarding civilian facilities such as airports, power plants and oil pipelines. The initial price will be around $200,000 per robot and both Korea University and the fourfold conglomerate who teamed up to create the robot — Samsung Techwin Co., Sejin System Co., MediaZen and Sysfo Lab Co. — hope to reach sales of over $200 million in the first year. full article http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2504508&page=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FA sear Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Light'em up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 I'd hate to be the drunk hunter who mistakenly stumbles into THAT area! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xG5kdo Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 That's so...Terminator. What next? Hunter-Killer Units? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooK Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 (edited) On some show I was watching them play with robots equiped with M249 SAWs. They had been programmed to identify and attack humanoid targets. Needless to say, in testing they were effective and accurate. I think we're getting a step closer to machines ruling the world. Never let a computer chip make life or death decisions, that's my motto. Edited October 4, 2006 by RooK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FA sear Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 I think we're getting a step closer to machines ruling the world. Never let a computer chip make life or death decisions, that's my motto. In the future, some computer is going to find this thread and terminate you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 On some show I was watching them play with robots equiped with M249 SAWs. They had been programmed to identify and attack humanoid targets. Needless to say, in testing they were effective and accurate. I think we're getting a step closer to machines ruling the world. Never let a computer chip make life or death decisions, that's my motto. It's called SWORDS and so far it's human operated, not autonomous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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