Originally published April 30 2004
Pentagon wants to build battlefield humanoid robots, but DARPA's robot
race turns out nothing but failure
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The world is safe from Pentagon-controlled terminator robots... for now,
at least. The DARPA robot race failed to produce a single robot capable
of navigating the course. So it's back to the drawing board for the
robot builders. And the Pentagon? They'll have to settle for sending
humans to fight their battles for now. But make no mistake: what the
Pentagon ultimately wants is an army of robotic killing machines that
can fight battles instead of humans. Human casualties tend to tick off
folks back home, and worse yet, some soldiers actually have a conscious
and start realizing that the wars they're fighting are a sham, intended
to pad the pockets of the ultra-rich rather than protect freedom or any
such noble goal.
But robots make no such distinctions. They just
carry out the mission, killing without remorse or thought. It's all just
a program in their silicon brains. See, the military tries to make
automatons out of humans. That's what boot camp is for. But it would be
even better, from the military's point of view, to have humanoid robots
carrying out the grunt work. Future battlefields might only have platoon
commanders as humans, with the entire platoon consisting of humanoid,
gun-toting terminators.
This isn't sci-fi, folks. Why do you think
DARPA is running these competitions in the first place? They're
certainly not doing this just to amuse themselves.
All 15 self-navigating vehicles in a 150-mile race across the Mojave
Desert were knocked out within a few miles of the starting gate
Saturday, victims of technical glitches, barbed-wire fences and rugged
terrain.
It estimates competitors laid out a total of four to five times that
amount developing their entries, which rely on global positioning
satellites as well as a variety of sensors, lasers, radar and cameras to
orient themselves and detect and avoid obstacles.
The Pentagon's research and development agency would have awarded $1
million to the first team whose microcircuit-studded vehicle could cover
the course in less than 10 hours, but most involved in the race were
skeptical that any vehicle entered would accomplish the mission.
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