[MadIvan]

Interesting. I can see, say, the Syrian army soiling their pants in the face of terminator-like robots marching towards them.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[B-Chan]

"Count Dooku, Trade Federation, Banking Clan Prepare to Build 70bn Credit Robot Army."

Meanwhile, the Chinese Republic is cloning copies of Suz Tzu by the millions in their oceangoing factories...

Begun, these Clone Wars have.

[Constantine XIII]

bwahahahahahaha! Excellent!

[kb2614]

I hear the Pentagon is looking at a British company to make them. Hear are some prototypes. Now, which ones do you choose??? :-)

[Wiggins]

Take this Mullahs!

[Mr. Silverback]

In all seeriousness, te robot wars of the future will probably be more like the "soldierboy" telepresence rigs in "Forever Peace" by Joe Haldemann.

But if you read it, just be forewarned that Haldemann's a lib. The book's underlying premises are more than worth the read, however.

[GeronL]

We'll build them and Israel will build their own cheaper, they'll just simplify some software and such.. I wonder how long before the first battle of the robot armies takes place?

[carumba]

Scientists say that, working at full tilt, the process is likely to take at least 20 years.

Looks like they need to call in the engineers.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Just keep a human in the command loop is all I ask.

[neverdem]

A New Model Army Soldier Rolls Closer to the Battlefield

It's the NY Times version of the story.

[Paul C. Jesup]

The Pentagon is spending £70 billion on a programme to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield in the hope that future wars will be fought without the loss of its soldiers' lives.

£70 billion British pounds is around $140 billion U.S. dollars. Now I am sure Pentagon (as publically stated) has military robot projects, but the budget for it is probably more around $140 Million and NOT a $140 Billion.

[sourcery]

Justification/motivation: China

[Redleg Duke]

Wow! These guys just discovered the FCS Program...which has been around for about 5 or so years!

You just can't keep a secret hidden from these Euroweenies!

"Those boys...Ah say...those boys are as sharp as a bowling ball!"

[TXBSAFH]

Two words: Battlestar Galactica

[Ramcat]

This is a bad, bad, bad thing.

Any reasonable, critically thinking person can easily find fault with the argument for doing this.

[TexasRepublic]

We should skip that nonsense and build the Death Star instead.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

This in the long run IMHO my very well turn out to be one of the coffins that nails the lid shut on western civilization. This program would be the death rattle of civic militarism.

[roostercashews]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

~Had to be said~