For those young readers of mine that don't know what the title quote means, it is a famous quote used by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in some of his more famous movies (Terminator, etc.). Yes, he was an actor in many famous action flicks! Anyway, to my point; There is a new device called a robot soldier, Robocop (another movie), or Terminator, that I think is a great idea! It will take police out of harms way. The device is a robot that is armed with a taser. This way, the person that is out of control could be subdued without putting police officers in danger. The device itself does not make the decisions on when to fire, and such, but a human with a remote like control, would be. Having something that can keep a human from getting injured or killed is, in my opinion, a very important step in the development of civilization.
The robot soldiers could be set up to use more dangerous weapons. They mentioned in the article, that down the road, "Robocops" could be hi-tech enough to be able to make the decision on whether or not to use lethal force. I am not sold on this idea yet but the current robot is a definite improvement on what we have now. How many lives could be saved?
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I think robots are great and have saved many of our soldiers and police officers. As they become more sophisticated they will save even more lives. However, sometimes I worry that taking the human element out of the mix numbs us to the reality of what is really occurring. In the future we will wage war from computers just like video games. Actually, we already are…. I think robots can make the hard decisions such as life or death much easier. It a fine line that we will all have to walk in the future. If you want to see the future of robotics in the military, just type “robot US army” into a search engine. It’s amazing what the department of defense and defense contractors are working on.
On a happier note, we have both the Roomba and Scooba from iRobot. These guys can sweep and mop the floor! Now those guys really work their chips off.
I totally agree with you on the "human element" comment. Thanks for the search tip.
I do agree that the robo cops would save money and keep police officers in less danger but if the world was filled with robo cops than were would all the real cops go and be because they went to college to be a cop not to be replaced by a robot. I thinck there should be only a few robo cops to do the more dangerous like disarm a bomb or save a hostage in a bank robbey but if there is something that will go wrong with him like having a glitch or it just decides to take over the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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