Poor Issac Asimov!

[Annie]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/15/1359233

U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 15, @09:49AM
from the fourth-law-is-don't-look-at-me-i'm-hideous dept.
Robotics Hardware
buanzo writes "The US Army is deploying armed robots in Iraq that are capable of breaking Asmov's first law that they should not harm a human. SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) robots are equipped with either the M249, machine gun which fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute. " update this story refers to this article from 2005. But com'on, robots with machine guns! I don't get to think about that most days!

 

[ThomasPaine]

at semi-sentient robots. It's a small difference. But he was wrong anyway. It's not a good road to go down..