US Military 50 Percent Robotic By 2015

[ALien]

The US military will be half machine and half human by 2015, a military expert told an audience on Wednesday.

Speaking before a group at the Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, military expert Peter Singer said the implementation of robot soldiers was near.

"We are at a point of revolution in war, like the invention of the atomic bomb," Singer said.

"What does it mean to go to war with US soldiers whose hardware is made in China and whose software is made in India?"

The US military has already made great strides in unmanning the battlefield. The US uses attack drones and bomb-handling robots, and custom war video games have been used as recruiting tools.

But the introduction of compassionless robots to the battlefield is strangely similar to terrorism, said Singer.

"You don't have to convince robots they are going to get 72 virgins when they die to get them to blow themselves up," Singer said.

Singer also referred to so-called “war porn” – videos captured by robots on the battlefield that gets distributed on the Internet.

"It turns war into entertainment, sometimes set to music," Singer said. "The ability to watch more but experience less."

David Hanson creates robots with human features in hopes to achieve more “empathy.”

"The goal here is not just to achieve sentience, but empathy," Hanson said.

"As machines are more capable of killing, implanting empathy could be the seeds of hope for our future."

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[Mingus]

It's nice to know that we're dehumanizing the act of war in order to make the public feel better about it.

[Area-51]

ok, soooo. first of all. the army will not be ROBOTIC! right until now, there isn't even ONE robot in the US military. All the machines in the arsenal aren't robotic, but more like remote controled.

There is a big difference between remote controlled machines and autonome robots.

Robots are able to calculate desicions in real time all alone with no external force controlling them.

Last year I visited a german university for one week, and there we discussed the same issue and we came to the definition, that robots have to be fully autonome in every way, so that they are able to work all alone without someone controlling them

[kidflash2008]

I do believe they mean the vacuum type robots that travel on wheels to their destinations. I certainly hope it is not Terminator type cyborgs!

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Originally Posted by kidflash2008

I do believe they mean the vacuum type robots that travel on wheels to their destinations. I certainly hope it is not Terminator type cyborgs!

haha yea guys i was totally joking. I saw a video with these robots being made by the same company who made irobot's (the vacuums) Basically they are Robots that can wheel into a building before the human does and check it out and shoot people if needed

[Area-51]

But aren't those remote controlled?

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Here is the story i saw: http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=2925

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Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496309,00.html