Monday, April 6, 2009

Robots

Below is a video of the Big Dog. Sounds badass doesn't it?

It's a sort of robotic mule that is being used to track down and capture Osama Bin Laden! He's going to be laughing his ass off when he sees this hobbling around the corner.



It's probably best you turn your volume down, the noise is mightily irritating.

For a less frivolous look at the future of military roboticisation check out P.W.Singer: Military Robots and the Future of War. Singer talks about the moral dilemmas of robotic and remote warfare, particularly interesting is a disturbing new phenomenon: "War Porn".

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