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the world's first weaponized robot

From Wired Blog’s Danger Room (via mikeyv):

They “haven’t fired their weapons yet,” Michael Zecca, the SWORDS program manager, tells DANGER ROOM. “But that’ll be happening soon.”

Once they’ve killed off all the Iraqis, we can program them to run the oil rigs and refineries, and everything will be perfect.

Posted on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 10:12AM by Registered Commentercitizen-viewer in | Comments3 Comments

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We have had and used armed UAV's for a while now. And they are basically flying robots.
Aug 11, 2007 at 04:11PM | Unregistered CommenterJohn
It's not clear to me from the Wired Blog article what definition makes this thing a "robot" yet excludes the unmanned aerial vehicle. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot for starters.

Meanwhile, I wish I'd thought of this, posted as a comment under that article: "Specially made for those causes that are worth killing for but not worth dying for."
Aug 12, 2007 at 01:29AM | Registered Commentercitizen-viewer
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." –

-- George Patton
Aug 14, 2007 at 04:46PM | Unregistered CommenterJohn

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