South Korea Develops Machine-Gun Sentry Robot
Posted on October 5th, 2006 by William Cox in Military
This story lands in today's "very cool, yet very scary" category - South Korea develops a machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. The sentry robot is equipped with two cameras, one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder of inpending death, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.The robots, co-developed between Samsung and Korea University, are expected to sell for $200,000 USD and will be available late in 2007. The South Korean government plans to deploy these friendly reminders on the border between South and North Korea, to further ease relations between the countries. Or, maybe it's the othe way around.
You can also see more pictures and video of the robot on this roughly translated page. This line especially caught my attention: " … the person the form recognition equipment to analyze the shedding of blood and a feature of the mobile object." Let's just hope that Google was especially bad at translating today.
I imagine that all of the World's Evil Leaders with secret Bad-Guy hideouts are licking their lips.
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June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Selling not for 200.00 U$, but for 200,000.00 U$
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Samsung is obviously the forerunner of Cyberdyne Systems Inc. When are they bringing out the T-101?
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Your readers may be interested in a novel about military robots that sound very much like these.
[URL=http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]Autonomous Operation[/URL]
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Ronny,
Weapons are a tool that can be used for good or bad. I have much more confidence in South Korea using this tool for good than I do for Iran using nuclear weapons for good.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
A amazing development! is what I call this concept of having Machine gun sentry bots on the N.Korea S.Korea border. For all my life I found Robots to be absolutely cool (I collected transformers) and now with this, my love for robots just grew much more! Although placing these sentry bots is something I wonder how the North Korean goverment will take, I mean if they think of this as a sort of threat, what if they begin to construct mobile robots and declare a robot war, or something of the sort.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
William, you are a tool.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Is this for real? I can only regret that the world has come to this, killer robots!? SHAME ON YOU samsung!
Why dont you join Iran i thier persue of weapons of mass destruktion?
And to all you imbicil gun lovers seek psykological help, you obviously need it!
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
[I]sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans and trees[/I]
Expect to see Kim Jong-Il develop killer treebots within six months.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Way to Go SamSung !! Wipe out the human race!!1
” Halt, do not move an inch or I’ll shoot ” ……human body reaction in the dark at the voice that just beam across his ears.. .the body shivers…”WHAM!!!!” countless rounds fill the human to make him look metallic….
Our robot just killed a human for being human……
November 17th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Wow, it’s begining of Skynet! Get ready for Terminator true story.