[Dean's World] Dean: Samsung's Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot

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Posted by Dean:
Samsung's Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1162932676.shtml


   South Korean tech giant Samsung has begun manufacturing sentry/guard
   robots featuring voice recognition, pattern recognition, independent
   judgement--and deadly-accurate machine guns.

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   The South Korean government is currently testing them for use along
   the North Korean border. [1]More details here.

   As Mike in the comments to an earlier thread put it, robots with
   machine guns? What could possibly go wrong?

   Technological growth is almost always exponential. It also usually
   grows unnoticed until one day the tech suddenly seems common, then
   ubiquitous. I suspect we're rapidly approaching the "knee" of the
   curve on robotics, where it gradually becomes apparent to everyone
   that robots are suddenly popping up all over the place doing a
   surprising number of things.

References

   1. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=762