Recruiting Robots for Combat

November 28th, 2010

Via: New York Times:

The Maars robots first attracted the military’s interest as a defensive system during an Army Ranger exercise here in 2008. Used as a nighttime sentry against infiltrators equipped with thermal imaging vision systems, the battery-powered Maars unit remained invisible — it did not have the heat signature of a human being — and could “shoot” intruders with a laser tag gun without being detected itself, said Bob Quinn, a vice president at QinetiQ.

Maars is the descendant of an earlier experimental system built by QinetiQ. Three armed prototypes were sent to Iraq and created a brief controversy after they pointed a weapon inappropriately because of a software bug.

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One Response to “Recruiting Robots for Combat”

  1. williamspd says:
    November 28, 2010 at 7:33 pm

    20 Seconds To Comply….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs

    We always knew that it was only a matter of time….

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