Tag: robots
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daily show investigates ‘adorable’ killer robots
from raw replay: iRobot was awarded a $286 million contract from the U.S. military to create combat robots. The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee visits the company to talk about their progress. This video is from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast Feb 10, 2009. flashbacks: robots will hunt ‘non-cooperative humans’ in army plan & will…
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police state int’l: fema camps, biofuels, cyborg kill-bots & dhs
new legislation authorizes fema camps in USfrom paul joseph watson: A new bill introduced in Congress authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to set up a network of FEMA camp facilities to be used to house U.S. citizens in the event of a national emergency. The National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 mandates the…
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video: doctor builds robot twin to study soul
from raw replay: CNN’s Kyung Lah reported that a Kyoto doctor has created an uncanny robot twin. Hiroshi Ishiguro believes that his robot double can help in the understanding of human presence. Ishiguro is well known for creating life-like androids. This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast Nov. 26, 2008.
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robots will hunt ‘non-cooperative humans’ in army plan
from danger room: The Army is looking to develop software and hardware that will let packs of robots chase down “non-cooperative human subject[s].” The machine team would be 3-5 ‘bots, each about 220 pounds, led by a flesh-and-blood officer. Well, at least until the robots have the brains to “intelligently and autonomously search for objects”…
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miltech: wow, weather wars, haarp, mind control & lasers
pentagon researcher conjures warcraft terror plotfrom danger room: The American military and intelligence communities are increasingly worried that would-be bin Ladens might gather in a virtual world, to plan a real-life attack. But the spies haven’t given many details, about how it might be done. Now, a Pentagon researcher has laid out how such a…
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pentagon’s unmanned spokesdrone completes its first press conference mission
from onion news network: The spokesdrone will field questions deemed too dangerous for a human press secretary, whose career could be irreparably damaged by answering them.
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israel reveals armed ground drone
from danger room: The Israeli military doesn’t have any Guardium robotic sentries on patrol. But that doesn’t stop the Associated Press from proclaiming the machine to be “Israel’s newest soldier.”
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homemade ‘bum bot’ patrols in atlanta
from ap: Cars passing O’Terrill’s pub screech to a halt at the sight of a 300-pound, waist-high robot marked ‘SECURITY’ rolling through downtown long after dark. The regulars hardly glance outside. They’ve seen bar owner Rufus Terrill’s invention on patrol before — its bright red lights and even brighter spot light blazing, infrared video camera…
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armed robots still in iraq
from danger room: A recent news report that armed robots had been pulled out of Iraq is mistaken, according to the company that makes the robot and the Army program manager. We linked last week to a Popular Mechanics article reporting that the armed SWORDS robots, made by Foster-Miller, has been pulled out of Iraq…
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collateral 40: a bug’s life
from collateral news: This weeks episode is about remote controlled bugs, implanted micro-cameras and the Pentagon’s latest attempt to spy on terrorists … wait a few years and this new technology called ‘Hybrid Insects Mems’ or ‘Hi-Mems’ will be in the hands of domestic law enforcement flying around your living room.
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killer karolina kops & a suicide robot
s. carolina cops mow down suspects with cruisers from kprc: Videos have surfaced showing two members of the South Carolina Highway Patrol using their cruisers to ram fleeing suspects, just weeks after two leaders of the agency resigned because of a furor over a trooper’s use of a racial slur. In one of the two…
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robotwars, saic, target cities, l-rad & vampire cams
automated killer robots ‘threat to humanity’from afp: Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP. “They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a…
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news on the march
army’s robotic, armed combat vehicle rolls outfrom wired: We now know that there are robotic cars smart enough to drive themselves around a city. The next step: give those vehicles automatic weapons, of course… Last month, a set of South African remotely-operated 35 mm guns spun out of control, and killed nine soldiers. The Black…
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our new robot army will be controlled by malware
from register: A US defence department advisory board has warned of the danger that American war robots scheduled for delivery within a decade might be riddled with malicious code. The kill machines will use software largely written overseas, and it is feared that sinister forces might meddle with it in production, thus gaining control of…