By Michael J.W. Stickings
(Originally posted at The Carpetbagger Report.)
Do you ever despair for the future of humanity? Would you like yet another good reason to do so?
According to Reuters, an Israeli defence firm, Elbit Systems Ltd., has "unveiled a portable robot billed as being capable of entering most combat zones alone and engaging enemies with an onboard armory that includes a machine-pistol and grenades".
It’s called the VIPeR.
Will it (or an army of it) reduce human casualties in war? Maybe. Will it make it easier for us loathsome, wretched creatures to wage war against one another? Absolutely.
Will the outsourcing of war to robots — the supreme technologization of war — come back to bite us in the ass? I wouldn’t bet against it.
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