Lucky
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With robotics advancing in such leaps... what's the best way to win a confrontation with a robot? If a firearm, what and how? If you assume the robot will faster and more accurate, are there any options beside retreat and ambush?
Links attached to prove this stuff isn't science fiction, walking robots, running robots, navigating robots, armed killing robots.
Humanoid robot
Korea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haEyC_ZWUOo&feature=related
Japan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C5sc8b3xM&feature=related
Robot Turret
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRKksfKDIto
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/09/06/samsung-files-patent.html
Quadraped Walking Robot
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
CROWS turret counter-sniper application
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5261829/Truck-crews-test-anti-sniper.html
IOW the robot hears a shot and in the blink of an eye has the shooter in it's cross-hairs. Currently a human needs to be in the loop and click 'ok' for the robot to fire, but...
Links attached to prove this stuff isn't science fiction, walking robots, running robots, navigating robots, armed killing robots.
Humanoid robot
Korea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haEyC_ZWUOo&feature=related
Japan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C5sc8b3xM&feature=related
Robot Turret
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRKksfKDIto
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/09/06/samsung-files-patent.html
Quadraped Walking Robot
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
CROWS turret counter-sniper application
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5261829/Truck-crews-test-anti-sniper.html
The acoustic system provides azimuth, elevation, range, caliber, miss distance and GPS location of sniper fire. Then, the weapon turret on the truck, called the common remotely operated weapons station, or CROWS, swings the thermal imager or day TV to the source of the fire for positive identification and targeting.
IOW the robot hears a shot and in the blink of an eye has the shooter in it's cross-hairs. Currently a human needs to be in the loop and click 'ok' for the robot to fire, but...