Killer Robots

According this post on Engadget, the US Air Force says robots that decide whether to kill people or not will be here by 2047. I guess I should start making a list of things to do before 2047…

The US DoD continues down the path of recreating the Terminator plot line, but in real life. Can someone get them a Netflix account?

Called the “Ember,” the robot runs on reversible treads and has two flippers on one end to get it over obstacles and right itself. It’s got a tiny camera mounted on one side, and an antenna mount. It’s even got its own Facebook photo album.

It’s small, it’s sturdy and someday every soldier may have one.

It’s been made under a Pentagon contract to develop “LANdroids,” small, automatically networking communications and surveillance robots.

Yeah! Networked robots!
Yeah! LANdroids!
Right, keep telling yourself that this won’t go horribly awry.
I’ll just go find Sarah and John and head for the hills.

According to Reuters columnist Bernd Debusmann, "military robots and their rapidly increasing numbers" and at a conference this Month, Brookings scholar Peter Singer said "Science fiction is moving to the battlefield. The future is upon us."

Sometimes I wonder if I’m the last sane person on Earth.

One way or another, the Terminators are coming. Check it out:

They have no fear, they never tire, they are not upset when the soldier next to them gets blown to pieces. Their morale doesn’t suffer by having to do, again and again, the jobs known in the military as the Three Ds – dull, dirty and dangerous.