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| Samsung Develops Machine-Gun Sentry Robot |
| 2006-11-04 |
| This story lands in today's "very cool, yet very scary" category - South Korea develops a machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. The sentry robot is equipped with two cameras, one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder of inpending death, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.56mm machine-gun. The robots, co-developed between Samsung and Korea University, are expected to sell for $200,000 USD and will be available late in 2007. The South Korean government plans to deploy these friendly reminders on the border between South and North Korea, to further ease relations between the countries. Or, maybe it's the other way around. You can also see more pictures and video of the robot on this roughly translated page. This line especially caught my attention: " ... the person the form recognition equipment to analyze the shedding of blood and a feature of the mobile object." Let's just hope that Google was especially bad at translating today. I imagine that all of the World's Evil Leaders with secret Bad-Guy hideouts are licking their lips. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #12 Life imitates Phil. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-11-04 22:37 |
| #11 Nothing so spectacular here. Some additions on the pattern recognition and the speaker, but that is about it. The US has already deployed several hundred remote weapon stations on vehicles (Styker, HMMWV's). The SWORDS system is a remote weapon platform mounted on the TALON robot, which is ready to go although the robotics boys in Hunstville are a bit concerned since it was developed at ARDEC and not JPO. Mapsands is the border system referenced. It too uses remote weapons if the customer so desires (something I strongly encourage of course!) |
| Posted by: Remoteman 2006-11-04 19:07 |
| #10 Didn't I hear about this same idea proposed for our new "Border Fence" with Mexico? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-11-04 18:18 |
| #9 They have trouble with stairs IIRC .... ;-) |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-11-04 17:53 |
| #8 I like this style better: |
| Posted by: Croling Shineck2383 2006-11-04 17:33 |
| #7 Crichton |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-04 17:18 |
| #6 yeah but can it tell our humans from their humans? Jeez, didn't anyone ever see the Terminator? |
| Posted by: Glinese Theash4998 2006-11-04 17:08 |
| #5 Too big. Think: bees. Or that little glistening beetle crawling along the wall. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-11-04 14:56 |
| #4 The spotter UAV disguised as a vulture would be the clincher! |
| Posted by: Grunter 2006-11-04 14:55 |
| #3 They do sound an awful lot like my fictional military robots in Autonomous Operation. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-11-04 14:30 |
| #2 Phil B. call your patent attorney asap. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2006-11-04 14:09 |
| #1 They copied a Weyland-Yutani product ;o) |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-11-04 13:46 |