By the year 2020 the United States Army is planning on having 30 percent of its forces made up of robots. The term robot means "everything from self-driving trucks up to what you would conventionally think of as a robot," explained Bill Smart, a military expert at Washington University.
Under current military policy every robot is teleoperated by a human, but that isn't stopping the army from pouring resources into developing vehicles that would run autonomously.
Meanwhile, in South Korea, the military is working on a robot solider that has the ability to fire on its own initiative.
We assume none of the developers have seen a movie set in the future or they would have already aborted this terrifying project.
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Tuesday 02 December
By lynx
on the downside, this is a big step towards the long term goal of making the US government functionally un-overthrow-able. human soldiers will occassionally turn on their officers and join the dissidents when ordered to do evil things to civilians but that's not an issue with robots.
on the upside, it might just be easier to get american citizens to wake up and realize just how insane our military industrial complex has become when human soldiers have been replaced by merciless killer robots. of course, by then it'll probably be too late to do anything about it...
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