Little Robot With Big Guns Could Replace Human Soldiers

If the video was real, I'd be impressed.
It isn't, and the prototype shown above bears only a superficial resemblance to the one in the video.

I'm sure there are many people out there who could create a very impressive animation of some futuristic technology and mount some model firearms on what is essentially a radio controlled toy car.
Actually building one that performs effectively in the real world would be a bit harder.

True, the video doesn't prove anything. I guess real verification would be having the robot being used for the actual application...which may be a while.

I don't think its a good idea. War is not about blowing up other people's stuff.

Its about resolving human conflicts, taking people out of the war makes war more attractive and make more likely it will happen again or worse it could end up making people want control other people rather easily. Its bad idea.

If you read people like Michael Totten and Michael Yon, one of the primary reasons we're currently having so much success in Iraq is because our soldiers are working and living with the local populations developing positive rapport and showing the Iraqis we're there to help, not oppress like AQI. Replacing our human soldiers with remote controlled robotic guns would thus be a huge negative. It may be a helpful asset for any future house clearing opperations, especially if it's portable enough to be carried by a soldier as the picture implies.

the responses I see here are symptomatic of our conditioning to assume a "slippery slope" type effect when it comes to robotic and autonomous weapons systems... the idea being that they are somehow going to supplant the armed soldier and make war even more falsely sterilized than it already has become. this is a remote controlled robot, which can no more make a decision about firing a weapon as your PC or Mac does. the anonymous poster who worried about "humans being taken out of war" have misread and misinterpreted what this robot is.

it is not taking humans out of war at all. a soldier still controls the robot's every move, and--most critically--it is a human soldier who presses the fire switch.

I agree with the author, this is a good step in the direction of taking american citizens out of harms way. Why send a human to do a job that can be more safely accomplished vicariously through an armed robot?

The video is not real you Moron.

are now controlled by an interupted signal, which is what they say this device t does! way to
go nerds

I want to create more robots in the world. I want be a bill gate.