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Trusting robots with lethal decision-making will require a leap in technology.
For now, the military is focused on making human soldiers stronger, like a kind of cyborg.
They would be deadly, but unlike terminators in the iconic films, wouldn't decide mankind's fate in a nanosecond.
When I first saw the original terminatormovie in--back in , I was completely taken with it, as I think most people I'm michael ferris, the screenwriter onterminator and just the whole idea of a, uh, unstoppable killing machine was so, uh, riveting.
I think the, uh, the terminatormovies have really spoken to an innate fear that we have of technology run amok in general.
Darpa has recruited scientists at the robotics firm berkeley bionics to re-engineer the foot soldier and give it superhuman strength.
The revolutionary result is the hulc, a robotic exoskeleton for the human body.
The hulc, or human universal load carrier, is what it stands it's essentially a wearable it takes a load from a person that would be carried in a backpack or in a vest and it brings that load down to the ground, through the exoskeleton structure, and to the exoskeleton feet without going the exoskeleton can help a soldier carry more and new equipment into the field, so things that they haven't been able to do in the past, like for instance, a single soldier mortar team, a single soldier machine gun crew, these weapons now are carried by they could essentially be carried by a single soldier with a device like this.
Since the wearer barely feels the load, he doesn't burn a lot of energy, so he can hike great distances with minimal effort.
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...d to be able to interpret those in such a way to know whether or not there's some kind of deception, of whether or not they are saying one thing but really want something else.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Robisuke is a tool for but such human-like powers of perception would be useful in military robots.
They would be able to read potentially hostile body language or someone who is lying, and react.
The possibilities could veer even further into the realm of the fantastic.
What we won't know is the extent to which a robot, when it becomes sufficiently sophisticated and autonomous, actually crosses the line and we know why we're here.
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