Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14

Wired | 18 Oct 2007 | Noah Shachtman

[Spktyr]

More importantly, they’d never seen the “ED-209 in the boardroom scene” from Robocop.

[Calvin Locke]

I think the first robot killing a human was a screw-driver robot in Japan.

Not exactly sure of the details, such as access/entry/power restrictions, but some worker managed to get between the machine and the intended screw hole.

That was back in the 1980s.

[BBell]

Considering 2001: A Space Odyssey was done in 1968 I thought is was great.

[FreedomCalls]

I think the first robot killing a human was a screw-driver robot in Japan. Not exactly sure of the details, such as access/entry/power restrictions, but some worker managed to get between the machine and the intended screw hole. That was back in the 1980s.

And in the 70s the Russians had a tank with an autoloader mechanism that sometimes would load the weapons soldier into the breach instead of the intended shell if he got in the way in the cramped area.

[Calvin Locke]

I watched one of the shows on the Abrams tank. Not all that much clearance for the loader in position for the shot, that is the recoil.

I'm not sure how exactly the Soviet autoloader worked, but the US Army declined to add one because of the maintenance of an additional 80-100 parts.

From the cycle time of the Iraqi Soviet built tanks, 20-30 seconds, iirc, it didn't give them any advantage in a real combat situation.

[RichInOC]

“You know vat ve gonna do nowwwww?”
“Nyet...”
“Unpimp ze tank!”

[SatinDoll]

Oh My Gawd! You mean he was literally, actually, screwed with a screw-driving robot!!

[Moonman62]

Considering 2001: A Space Odyssey was done in 1968 I thought is was great.

Considering that it started production in 1964, it's even greater.

[MarkL]

Skynet???

[MarkL]

I watched one of the shows on the Abrams tank. Not all that much clearance for the loader in position for the shot, that is the recoil.

One of my co-workers used to be a loader, and yes, there's NO clearance during the recoil of the main gun. There's a safety gate, however my co-worker told me that it's not used because it gets in the way. He said that it was a very ugly way to find ones self in the hospital with numerous broken bones, and an occassional medical discharge.

He also told me of the time there was a mixup in the round loaded in the main gun, and the calibration switch on the gun sight during a live fire exercise... He told me that the round overshot the target by about 5 miles.

Mark

[Calvin Locke]

Stabbed to death, actually.

[BBell]

Thank you. I knew it came out in 68 but I didn’t know when production started. I throughly enjoy that movie. For too many action packed sci fi types it may not appeal.

[SatinDoll]

Oh, dear. Stabbed or screwed? What’s the difference!!

Don’t really think there is much of one, to tell the truth.