"US Army robots will outnumber human soldiers 10 to 1 by 2023"

[TopWargamer]

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/us-army-robots-will-outnumber-human-soldiers-10-to-1-by-1465669535

 

Talking at a US Army demonstration of autonomous weaponized robots at Fort Benning, Georgia, experts said that "ten years from now, there will probably be one soldier for every 10 robots. Each soldier could have one or five robots flanking him, looking for enemies, scanning for land mines."

 

Those are the words of Scott Hartley, co-founder of 5D Robotics, who demonstrated his companies' machines along with Northrop Grumman, QinetiQ, HDT Robotics and other robotics corporations catering to the US military. Harley also added that "robots can save lives." And indeed they can, helping soldiers survive in a hostile environment and making their lives easier. But, obviously, they are also making them to kill.

 

The future looks very, very scary, even more so if these robots (by 2023) are autonomous, which means that they could make decisions on their own. I can tell you all right now that not only will we see in use in the military, but also on the homefront as a police force, which is even scarier to think about. Like it or not, and whether you think I'm crazy or not, the United States is and will turn into a police state. It already kind of is with everything that the NSA does.

[James_AJ]

...every robot movie ever created.

[nokturrduk84]

cool

[Imaginaerum]

As long as Will Smith can put some nano-virus into the AI core we should be fine.

[Goldilock]

wow, that is fast. How much world changes in a decade

[delet my acc pls]

SKYNET!!!

Why aren't the gouvernment trusting the terminator movies?

[JAKEBAB]

and where are they getting the money for this? throwing themselves into more debt getting ready to fight a war with china so they dont have to pay it back? America is just like google get into everyones good books make everyone trust them and then bam there trying to take over the world. 

[Ookami]

That some Terminator shit right there...

 

[uS Army Robot goes berserk aka "get rid of human worse enemies = humans]

[Whole world get invaded]

Thanks US...

[JLCitadel]

Welp It's offical, I'm moving to Switz

[AMICLG]

Welp It's offical, I'm moving to Switz

The US somehow still gets there political bs in their every once and a blue moon.

[Beskamir]

Time to put on that tinfoil hat and over throw the government before it's too late.

[Luke]

Yeaaaa.....No.

[ManOfDisguise]

m240 fired accurately at 800 meters? thats pretty damn impressive if i must say so myself!

[Norwegiantweaker]

thank you for online EMP blueprints

[HaZardousLP]

You could play any AoE or Wargame style game in real life! Which is quite scary and lucky for Australia because we're always the last to get things and they're more expensive

[LegendKillerRG]

Last time I check, China got 2 million standing human... so there's 20 million robots by 2023 then?

[toddleronebar]

Futurama robots would be nice.

[cacra]

and where are they getting the money for this? throwing themselves into more debt getting ready to fight a war with china so they dont have to pay it back? America is just like google get into everyones good books make everyone trust them and then bam there trying to take over the world. 

China owns a very small proportion of America debt.

[gastew15]

That some Terminator shit right there...

 

[uS Army Robot goes berserk aka "get rid of human worse enemies = humans]

[Whole world get invaded]

Thanks US...

Don't mind us, just spreading the FREEDOM!!

[atomicmonkey101]

Now their unemployment will go through the roof. Good job USA.

[ionbasa]

It think some people are missing the point, in a war its easier to loose a robot than a human being.

[Ookami]

Don't mind us, just spreading the FREEDOM!!

...one headshot at a time.

[DoubleY]

I am scared of the future. I don't know what it will hold, but I am scared.

[wpirobotbuilder]

The future looks very, very scary, even more so if these robots (by 2023) are autonomous, which means that they could make decisions on their own.

As a Robotics engineer, I can say that they will NEVER make fully autonomous robots that can cause harm. There will always be an element of human control, especially on the trigger for weapons and arms.

 

With that said, there are already subsystems within a given U.S. Army robot that make decisions on their own. But overall control of the robot is done by humans.

[nicehat]