The Growing Military Use Of Robots

Militaries' Growing Use Of Ground Robots Raises Ethics Concerns -- Stars and Stripes

f North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un ever orders troops into the demilitarized zone, an army of South Korean robots could be waiting.

A Samsung subsidiary plans to deploy sentry robots to the tense South Korean border. The machines will be equipped with machine guns and cameras, thermal imaging and laser range finders capable of detecting intruders up to 2 1/2 miles away.

Samsung Techwin says the decision to fire must be made by a human in a remote bunker. Experts have suggested, however, that an operator could hack into the robot to enable it to make its own lethal decisions.

“If there has to be a decision, somebody has to turn on a trigger or put a key in for the lethal part,” said Alex Pazos, Samsung Techwin's director of application engineering in Latin America, where it uses unarmed versions of the surveillance robots.

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My Comment: This is the future of the military. Think Terminator movies.