Israel has just unveiled its newest way of "defending itself" that would "reduce the risk to it's forces [IDF]." It's called the VIPeR, and no, despite the spelling, it's not a warez team. It's an autonomous hand-to-hand fighting machine, that has an onboard Uzi submachine gun and grenade storage. It's supposed to be able to enter combat zones on its own, and engage enemy fighters. According to its manufacturer, Elbit Systems, it'll be used to move "undeterred by stairs, rubble, dark alleys, caves or narrow tunnels." It has an onboard camera that lets it aim, and a hell of a lot of ammo in case it misses.
That's rather scary. A robot - that can fight, kill, & plant bombs - all indiscrimanetly of course. The last time we checked, AI wasn't in production yet, so we highly doubt the "VIPeR" can tell the difference between civillian and "guerilla fighter."
If it's an indiscrimate killing machine, remotely deployed to "combat zones," it's going to kill all the wrong people. If you've ever been to Lebanon or Palestine, you'd realize just why this is such a ridiculous deception: there are no "combat zones," just combatants amongst civillians. All of them are next-door-neighbors, fathers, brothers, children. They're not fighting against an army, they're fighting against armed citizens and rebels. There's a big difference.
Israel obviously isn't worried about humanitarianism (the Human Rights Organization has charged Israel with hundreds of counts of Crimes against Humanity repeatedly), and it's obvious they don't care if this thing kills a hundred children so long as they get the terrorist school teacher - they've made that obvious before.
The problem is, this kind of thing is only going to get more common as technology advances. While most of the human race has enough wits left about them to not release something like this in such scenarios, the Israeli Defense Dept. has already verified that after initial field tests, this will be used by the IDF Infantry forces.
A killing robot, a civillian-interspersed population, and a government that doesn't care for consequences and has no one to be afraid of... Yep, we're scared alright for the future of human civilization.
For some reason I thought this was a remote-controlled robot and that those controlling it were able to use it to see the potential targets. Is that not the case?
Well, none of the articles go into the technical details, but from the description of the robot, I'd assume both options are present. The whole definition of "robot" is that it does things for itself. Robots are autonomous beings. They are programmed to do something, not walked through it. But I do imagine it does have a manual override, like most other machines.
If it's not a self-aiming total-destruction machine, it's not much of an "innovation" then is it? It's just a remote controlled car from Radio Shack that some sadist put a grenade launcher and a submachine gun on with a wi-fi camera. So I do believe it really is a self-deploying "soldier" that doesn't need remote guidance to kill.
Of course, it's always better to let machines fight machines, and not people to fight people :) this is cool stuff, i hope in future there will be no more wars whit people in war zone.
Yeah, but the problem is, the other side doesn't have machines to fight the machines with. So it's people vs. machines :'(
Yeah... that's pretty sad... :( well, let's hope they will capture one of them and explore it so they can make same one and than just play video games on battle ground! :)
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Whatever that means... :D
This is distrubingly stupid. As you say, it seems like the Terminator II prophecy is nearing a reality because some people won't bury their weapons. Maybe robots should instead be built to solve humanity's problems (e.g. economic, environmental, social).
I'm sure that would be easier too!
Why are you picking on the most moral army in the world? While the other side uses children as shields, the Israeli army does its best to minimize casualties...
This remote controlled fighting robot will be able to go in where the terrorists are, and kill whoever fires at it... since it will be armored, it will be able to wait till it either recognizes the weapons or get shoot at by the enemy before it responds... and the camera will show that who those terrorists really are, and make it harder for them to fool CNN
Because it won't wait to be shot at nor until it recognizes a weapon for multiple reasons. First, that's just stupid - economically speaking.
All it takes is one hit and then this really expensive bathtub toy is toast. Hit it in the right spot with a high-calibre weapon (think grenade, rocket, gattling gun, etc.), and it's gone. Israel won't let that happen, because they value money over the lives Palestinians.
Second, face recognition technology doesn't yet exist. The USA can't even deploy cameras in major airports that auto-recognize known terrorists - and that's indoors, in a controlled environment, with good-lighting, restricted access, and tons of room for bulky hardware.
And of course, there's the final fact that Israel has never waited to check if someone is guilty before taking action, the countries entire 60-year history of violence and bloodshed attests to that.
It's a remote controlled device. Humans will use it to finish off suicide bombers and other Palestinian terrorists. You'd want one too if your friends and family were being blown to pieces by ululating Islamofascist madmen.
It's not a "remote-controlled" device, it's a bloody robot. The whole frikkin point of a robot is to do something all on its bloody-fucking own.
Anyone can connect a gun to an RC car and point 'n shoot – that's not hard. What these Zionist bastards did was create a automated non-discriminative killing machine - pretty much the embodiment of the average IDF soldier.
Lesson 1: Never believe what you read, with out first doing your own research.
Lesson 2: This website; "the NeoSmart" files isn't too smart as they failed lesson 1.
Lesson 3: Learn to expect erroneous information first and then do research for the facts.
For only one example visit the following link...
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/army/VIPeR_Small_Portable_Reconnaissance_Robot110010878.php
Who wrote this? Can you review a piece of technology without giving us your half educated opinion about the IDF? This kind of technology is of special interest to me as it is to every nations armed forces. Have you ever heard of DARPA, F-face? Every war contractor on the face of the earth is playing with this stuff. This "writer" or "journalist" is using this stupid robot to get on a soap box and spout one line pieces of BS about Isreal. FU and Shalom you retart. Tom Cox
He listed WMD as one of the tags for this article... Sounds like someone really got into I-Robot.
Should anyone feel threatend by this type of technolgy you either in a dream or totaly ignorant of the fact that living with constant terror costs lives.This robot is no different to unmaned airiel survalence planes used Iraq and afganistan which both use qualified pilots and are directed on required inteligence to conduct opperatoins without threatening our soldiers lives.