Two robots with surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems were integrated into a single unit, by South Korea to patrol the North Korean border.
Not just any old robots, mind you, but South Korean killer robots.
The Telegraph UK has the robotic report:
Bang! You're dead! South Korea's new high tech robot is reportedly based on an earlier American design.
Two robots with surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems were integrated into a single unit, a defence ministry spokesman said.
The 400 million won (£220,000) unit was installed last month at a guard post in the central section of the Demilitarised Zone which bisects the peninsula, Yonhap news agency said.
It quoted an unidentified military official as saying the ministry would deploy sentry robots along the world’s last Cold War frontier if the test was successful.
The robot uses heat and motion detectors to sense possible threats, and alerts command centres, Yonhap said.
If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot’s audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.
We’re picturing an army of these robots patrolling the Mexican border. Our version will kill jackrabbits for fuel so it can operate indefinitely. And it will have a voice chip that allows it to say, “¡Alto! Inmigración y Naturalización!
Barack Obama, the Greatest President in History, Greatest Astronaut in History, and Greatest Lover in History, has now taken his place alongside other animatronic Commanders-in-Chief in the Hall of Presidents at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Barack Obama, the Greatest President in History, Greatest Astronaut in History, and Greatest Lover in History, has now taken his place alongside other animatronic Commanders-in-Chief in the Hall of Presidents at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
It will be a show your children will never forget. They’ll see George Washington, who couldn’t tell a lie. They’ll see Bill Clinton, who couldn’t tell the truth. And now they’ll see Barack Obama, who can’t tell the difference.
(By the way, is it our imagination or does that animatronic Obama look more like NBC’s Lester Holt with a Barack Obama ear graft?)
