Killer Robots » Movie Plot Lines http://www.killerrobots.net We're all going to die... It's only a matter of when Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:59:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Skynet, It’s Closer Than You Think http://www.killerrobots.net/2009/05/22/skynet-its-closer-than-you-think/ http://www.killerrobots.net/2009/05/22/skynet-its-closer-than-you-think/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 21:06:47 +0000 jojokaffe http://www.killerrobots.net/?p=534 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.

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

Consumer- and military-robot manufacturer iRobot has made a little “cousin” of its famous Packbot that’s small enough to fit in a pocket, weighs less than a pound, clambers almost anywhere and forms ad-hoc wireless networks with its kin.

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.

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