Military Robots Downright Creepy

It was announced Google bought 'Boston Dynamics' on December 13, 2013. Let's have a look at what Google purchased.



Here a few of the robots 'Boston Dynamics' is developing.

BigDog (Updated March 2010


2012- "The Legged Squad Support System (LS3) is a rough-terrain robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. It is designed to carry 400 lbs of payload and travel 20 miles without refueling. LS3 has sensors that let it follow a human leader while avoiding obstacles in the terrain."




2013- The 'Wildcat'



October 2013- 'Atlas'

The Bigdog, LS3, Wildcat and Atlas videos courtesy of 'Boston Dynamics'


COMMENTARYFace it, none of these were developed for any other purpose then to eliminate perceived enemies.

The first 'Star Wars' movie was released on May 25, 1977. Who would have then imagined just 36 years later these nightmare machines are coming to life.



The next generation of military drones are already in development. They will one day eliminate ground controllers. Use algorithms to identify an individual (through facial recognition) and then determine whether they are performing a hostile act. If these automated killing machines determine such, it would open fire upon such individual(s).

Here's are few of my negativities on this matter...* Congress seems to always moan about not having money for education, social security, infrastructure and a bunch of other things, but made $79 billion available (2010) for military research. That's only the money we know about. How much is spent in 'dark money' may never be known

* Ter•ror•ist-- The use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal.. One man's patriotic act is another's act of a terrorism. Who gets to decide which is which... the guy with the biggest guns?

* Will these killing machines be used only to put down a gunman in the mall and in schools and/or against political uprisings either here or abroad?

* Killing machines distance combatants from the horrors of war. Most wars end when one or both sides soldiers and civilians suffered and exhausted themselves of combatants. If both sides acquire them (and they will) which government would be so inclined to surrender, no matter the number of human causalities, so long as they have killing machines available to continue?

IN CONCLUSIONIf mankind spent half as much time, energy and money on seeking to make life better as they do on destroying one another imagine what could be achieved!

Instead of perverting our inventiveness time, energy and money on these military machines I'd rather they be further developed for... Space exploration
Harvesting food
Rescue work (fire, disasters, etc.
Labor needs in hazardous, repetitive and exhaustive work areas
etc., etc., etc.Instead these things come from the darkest most nightmarish evil side of human nature not even I could have imagined. I'm not surprised, but I am always disappointed when mankind figures out better ways to torture and kill one another.

I kind of hoped we would have somehow progressed over the 6 or 7 million years when we first started killing one another.
           GUESS NOT!




UPDATED
(12/24/2013)

Google robot smokes the field in DARPA competition