Tiger
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Sorry if its been posted already, only just seen the story.
Terminator: The Start, The Reality......
The US military is gradually edging closer to unleashing a new model army of robot soldiers on the battlefield.Robots are expected to become a major fighting force within US Army ranks in less than a decade.Technological advances allow them to hunt and kill enemies while their human controllers remain a safe distance away, carefully monitoring proceedings through a laptop.
The £67.3 billion Future Combat Systems contract is the biggest in US military history and officials are making rapid progress.
While not yet ready to be used as a fighting force, hundreds of robots have been deployed to dig up roadside bombs in Iraq, scour caves in Afghanistan and guard weapons depots.
By April, an armed version of the bomb-disposal robot, capable of firing 1,000 rounds a minute, will be at work in Baghdad.
The one metre-tall "soldiers" will be equipped with tank tracks, night vision and mounted automatic weapons.
"They don't get hungry, they're not afraid, they don't forget their orders," Gordon Johnson, from the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon, told the New York Times.
"They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes."
Experts say the new generation of soldiers will be increasingly capable of thinking, seeing and reacting like humans.
The first models will only shoot when a human operator presses a button after identifying a target on video shot by the robot's cameras.
Automated forces could save lives but the cost is expected to drive the US defence budget up by almost 20%.
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Jonny P
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fucking hell, it wil be like IRobot
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corsa5dr
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Have they not seen Terminator, The matrix or IRobot!!!! 
Pretty clever stuff though
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corsa5dr
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Judgement day is coming! Maybe this is what OJC predicted
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Dom
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Here is an advert of what it could be like in there future 
HERE (mov file @ 16mb)
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bradfincham
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bloody americans, and they will moan why taxes have gone up!!
Pisses me off they didnt sign the kyoto agreement because they are so far away from being environmentally friendly.
Again another reason why they are after the all the worlds oil!
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Tiger
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It really could be the start of something though, they say in the end they will be able to think like humans.
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Ben
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i can see this going wrong.
very fucked up 
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Dom
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i give it 50years before your best mate doesnt have a pumping heart as is made out of titanium or some alloy 
but aye, i can also see this getting abit fecked - although i doubt they will release anything that has any major power otherwise it would end up refusing orders and taking on humans for world power etc
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Tiger
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quote:
By April, an armed version of the bomb-disposal robot, capable of firing 1,000 rounds a minute, will be at work in Baghdad.
thats quite some power to malfunction....
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Ben
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maybe they should spend there money on learing how to cure aids ect 1st
why are they so bothered about fighting?
worries me
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IntaCepta
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lol the cure for aids doesn't even come close to the importance of national defense!
yea, i'm pretty pee'd off too, that usa didn't sign the kyoto agreement! but i guess they can't promise what they can't do!
but in all honesty, i don't think USA is the only nation to be moving towards 'robots' idea!
I'm all up for it!
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Nath
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Originally posted by Dom
i give it 50years before your girlfriend doesnt have a pumping heart and is made out of plastic or some other inflatable material
50 years
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Stone Cold Rattlesnake
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This is only because they dont have enough ground troops for what they want to do and have'nt got the biggest infantary in the world
I agree though that others are most likely looking into it or coming up with counters for it or different alternatives
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R Lee
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WWIII battle of the robots 
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kerzo
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emp blasts all round.....army wiped out.....simple 
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barteh
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where did you get this from?
IVe searched the BBC web site, and not found anything on it?
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Adam-D
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in that vid? they look like that?
or are they little bomb disposal looking ones>
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1600power
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omg this is crazy! it really does sound like terminator! in the newest ones the very first terminators used tracks to move around etc 
gonna be crazy to see them in action methinks
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Martin
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Originally posted by kerzo
emp blasts all round.....army wiped out.....simple
thats worring. The whole army wipped out by an EMP.
stoopid americans
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Andy
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Originally posted by Tiger
they're not afraid, they don't forget their orders,"
Unlike US soldiers. If the Yanks had British soldiers in their army, they wouldn't need fooking robots
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Tom
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They shouldn't be allowed imo.
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Tiger
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Originally posted by barteh
where did you get this from?
IVe searched the BBC web site, and not found anything on it?
I first saw it on BT Yahoo homepage but it said more on the story on Sky Nes - i havent checked to see whether it is or not.
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DAYZEE
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Originally posted by Adam-D
in that vid? they look like that?
or are they little bomb disposal looking ones>
That vid is not a real robot, its computer animation!
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Lynny
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i give this planet another 100 years maximum 
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