Obligatory shout-out to Pentagon boffins for their most recent bout of world-domineering mad-scientica. The Pentagon proposes to:
…develop a software/hardware suit that would enable a multi-robot team, together with a human operator, to search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject.
According to Prof Steve Wright of Leeds Metropolitan University:
“What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs. Once the software is perfected we can reasonably anticipate that they will become autonomous and become armed.
We can also expect such systems to be equipped with human detection and tracking devices including sensors which detect human breath and the radio waves associated with a human heart beat. These are technologies already developed.”
Like a PACK OF DOGS I SAY! Muahahahahahaaa!
You gotta laugh, right? 😉
[from New Scientist, via KurzweilAI.net][image from this New Scientist blog post]
when do we get to see the duel between two BigDog robots we’ve all been waiting for?
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