Armed robots roam Iraq
Battlefield robots have been around for a few years now, but only now are fully-armed autonomous machines patrolling danger zones in the Middle East. They apparently have yet to actually open fire on anything (or anyone), but that’s a mere technicality. So, repeat after me: “I, for one, welcome our new …” [SlashDot]




August 6th, 2007 at 8:36 am
They’re not autonomous. I’ve been burned on that one before.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Cheers, Bill … the trouble with third-hand news is that it’s already been stripped of hard facts for sensation value by the time you read it. If I had more hours in each day, I’d do better research …