Tag: Warfare
Skynet, It’s Closer Than You Think
by jojokaffe on May.22, 2009, under Military
The US DoD continues down the path of recreating the Terminator plot line, but in real life. Can someone get them a Netflix account?
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.
