Samsung SGR-A1 Robot Sentry Is One Cold Machine

ubergizmo.com ^ | 09/14/2014 | Edwin Kee on

[BenLurkin]

Samsung Group subsidiary has worked on a robot sentry that they call the SGR-A1, and this particular robot will carry a fair amount of weapons that ought to make you think twice about crossing the borders of South Korea illegally – as it has been tested out at the demilitarized zone along the border over with its neighbor, North Korea. The SGR-A1 will be able to detect intruders with the help of machine vision (read: cameras), alongside a combination of heat and motion sensors.

The whole idea of the Samsung SGR-A1 is to let this military robot sentry do the work of its human counterparts over at the demilitarized zone at the South and North Korea border, so that there will be a minimal loss of life on the South Korean side just in case things turn sour between the two neighbors.

[Resolute Conservative]

They worked on LV-246.

[Sparticus]

Modern day Maginot line?

[jimmyo57]

Let’s get them for our border!

[Paine in the Neck]

Maybe I'll get one for the end of my driveway

[Political Junkie Too]

Put down that Big Gulp and step away.

You have 10 seconds to comply... You have 9 seconds to comply... You have 8 seconds to comply...

-PJ

[BenLurkin]

Thousands of them!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I want one.

[BenLurkin]

That would indeed say “Stay off my lawn.”

[Kartographer]

What could go wrong?

[FreedomPoster]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[Resolute Conservative]

If I could only type as well as I talk...

[Kartographer]

I am going to wait until they come with a Plasma Rifle in a 40 watt range! ;-)

[GraceG]

If the Norks ever invade south Korea it will literally be World War I vs. Star Trek/Wars......

[DannyTN]

I would think this would quickly become a kidnap target, similar to what happened to our drone near Iran.

So it needs the following:

• To be hardened against hacking and radio interference, including GPS interference.
• The ability to instantly delete it's software if captured except for the self destruct module.
• The ability to self destruct if captured.
• The ability to identify when other sentry's are threatened and attack their antagonists.

[Ray76]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INyVbf-yG7s

[Malone LaVeigh]

Aliens Sentry Gun

[RC one]

Having the sensors connected to the weapon system seems rather limiting. It seems like you could deploy remote robotic sensors which could detect enemy heat/motion/noise signatures and relay appropriate firing coordinates back to robotic artillery or grenade launchers or 25 mm chain guns or whatever. such a sensor could differentiate between mechanized targets and human targets and communicate to an appropriate weapon system for that matter.