tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37932483.post9030440438921271490..comments2007-08-05T05:21:43.993-04:00Barry Mahfoodhttps://profiles.google.com/108630062563152702964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37932483.post-78112000209308084732007-08-05T05:21:00.000-04:002007-08-05T05:21:00.000-04:00It's only a matter of time before direct manual control is replaced by supervisory control allowing one soldier to guide multiple robots - increasing his productivity and decreasing military costs. Once the problem gets to a supervisory level it then becomes much more amenable to automation. Data mining systems can extract typical patterns of sensing and control and create automated macros from these.<BR/><BR/>After a few more decades of development in this direction fully automated systems can "take control" of any piece of land after having been given the command to do so.<BR/><BR/>I also think it's likely that terrorist groups will actively seek to acquire/capture this technology, or build their own from scratch. Building a radio control vehicle and strapping a gun onto it, then driving it through a city, is not that remote a prospect.Bob Mottramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508972554031337434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37932483.post-6978848926901918192007-08-03T21:25:00.000-04:002007-08-03T21:25:00.000-04:00As I recall, South Korea is testing autonomous armed robots as well, with voice recognition systems and other goodies. Video of them in action over <A HREF="http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?Total_ID=2462527" REL="nofollow">here.</A>JEmersonhttp://synapticbuddhism.com/blogs/jemerson/noreply@blogger.com