Johnny 5 IS alive! Armed robots on patrol in Iraq, your thoughts?

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http://blog.wired.co...national.html
http://www.defenseli...a120604c.html

Is this old? I mean these robots have guns.

"The SWORDS -- modified versions of bomb-disposal robots used throughout Iraq -- were first declared ready for duty back in 2004. But concerns about safety kept the robots from being sent over the the battlefield. The machines had a tendency to spin out of control from time to time. That was an annoyance during ordnance-handling missions; no one wanted to contemplate the consequences during a firefight."

That's right, spin out of control. "I'm sorry Mrs. Washington, your son was killed by a berserk robot... it was one of ours."

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Better Bots than Bods. . .

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Might as well take my heart and put a machine in its place

there will be no consideration of right and wrong anymore, a target is a target, whether it's a kid, a woman, a dog, a man... what... [show more]

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Could lead to more "dangerous" missions being executed

Without the threat of soldiers' lives being at risk.

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See also: Wall-e

Johnny 5 is awfully busy these days. And maybe he's being typecast. But at least he's getting work, you know?

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Rebels been rebels, since I don't know when

♪♫ and all it wants to do is... ♪♫
♪♫ all it wants to do is dance. ♪♫

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Spin 1 year ago

Why ya gotta say SPIN like it's a bad thing?

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This topic was started by Skrrrriti Skrrrriti has 22,128 Grupie Points on August 2nd, 2007. 26 grupies have voted on one or more of the 8 answers.

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