“Spot,
the most advanced prototype combat robot manufactured by Boston
Dynamics, a company owned by Google, finished testing with the US
Marines last week. Spot, the quadruped, electrically operated
all-terrain battlefield device walks on four hydraulically actuated
legs. It weighs about 160 pounds. A human operator controls the robot
wirelessly from a distance of up to a third of a mile using a laptop
equipped with a radio transmitter and a video game-like controller.”
“The
new Boston Dynamics’ military robot underwent testing alongside
other devices as a part of the Marine’s battlefield robotics
evaluation program at their base in Quantico, Virginia. The project
is supported by Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA).”
“Spot
has been tested on various missions, including entering buildings,
that require peaking around corners and searching for possible
threats using its advanced sensors. Besides urban terrain, the robot
has proven to operate in woodlands and hills.”
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... when the arms industry will
fully automate the new weapons, private armies will only serve as
assistance to fully automated war machines. We already see the
test fields of the weapons of future˙ the drones in Afghanistan,
Iraq and elsewhere.
It's not accidental that the arms
industries demonstrate new weapons designed to be used inside
urban areas for suppression of potential riots. There will be no
"outside enemy" in the future. The threat for the
dominant system will come from the interior, the big urban
centers. Soldier-robots will protect worker-robots and resources.
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