[NetBehaviour] First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq (Updated).

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Sat Aug 4 18:42:30 CEST 2007


Andrej Tisma wrote:
>> The machines had a tendency to spin out of control from time to time.  
> 
> Great, and how will they call friendly fire now? - Crazy robot fire ;-)
> 

They have a "kill switch" for the robot, so if its systems go out of 
control, you can use that part of the system (which will of course be 
working properly) to stop the rest of the system from - wait, wouldn't 
the "kill switch" be the thing you would use to activate it, not 
deactivate it?

It's important to note that these are remote control robots rather than 
artificial intelligences. A human being has to give the 
authorization/order to fire, and the time factors this introduces have 
had to be allowed for.

http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/08/swords.html

- Rob.



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