{"id":780,"date":"2005-01-24T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T10:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=780"},"modified":"2005-01-24T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T10:04:34","slug":"robot-soldiers-bound-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Robot soldiers&#8217; bound for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div style=\"float:right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/4199935.stm\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/_40751749_robosoldier2_ap203b.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Soldering on: A private firm helped the military make the robo-soldier\" style = \"padding: 2px;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this spring, the Associated Press reports. <\/p>\n<p>The machine is based on a robot already used by the military to disable bombs. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say the robot warrior is fast, accurate and will track and attack the enemy with relatively little risk to the lives of US soldiers. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike its human counterparts, the armed robot does not require food, clothing, training, motivation or a pension.<\/p>\n<p>When not needed in war, it can be mothballed in a warehouse. <\/p>\n<p>However, the robot will rely on its human operator, remotely studying footage from its cameras, for the order to open fire. <\/p>\n<p>According to Bob Quinn, a manager with Foster-Miller, the US-based company which worked with the military to develop the robot, the only difference for a soldier is that &#8220;his weapon is not at his shoulder, it&#8217;s up to half a mile away&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/4199935.stm\">MORE<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers are mistaking civilians for combatants at close range now.  They expect this would be an improvement, or do they figure since they&#8217;ve made such a mess of it so far, why not test drive a new toy?<\/p>\n<p>The robots will be deployed in the spring?  What say the Iraqis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq. Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this spring, the Associated Press &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=780\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-cA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}