Pentagon Wants Man-Hunting Killer Robots
Nov 28th, 2008 by jayrss.com
Droid doorkickers to sniff out ‘non-compliant humans’
The Pentagon’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently sent out a call for contractors to design a pack of robots whose main purpose would be to track down what the SBIR ominously referred to as “noncooperative human subject[s].”
The call immediately raised red flags and was quickly removed from the public Web site before its cyborg spark evolved into a full-fledged paranoia over machine armies and murderous artificial intelligence.
According to the SBIR offer, the “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” would need “a software and sensor package to enable a team of robots to search for and detect human presence in an indoor environment.” The robots would be led by a human commander using “semiautonomous map-based control.” According to the offer, the robots should weight a little over 200 pounds apiece, and there should be three to five of them assigned to their human overlord.
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