It won’t be long until these are roaming the streets of America (see Armed Robots Pushed to Police)…and then I’ll be OUTTA HERE, blogging at you from New Zealand, or wherever I can find a place that doesn’t have these! I’ll just refer to the third installment of the Terminator series for my reasoning behind that! SKYNET anyone??? HELLO! This thing looks straight outta Robocop!!!

From Wired’s Danger Room:

New Armed Robot Groomed for War
By Noah Shachtman
October 08, 2007

The company behind the only armed robots in Iraq is rolling out a new model of gun-toting machine, built from the start for combat. DANGER ROOM has exclusive pictures and footage.

During the early days of the Iraq war, the roboteers at Foster-Miller modified their bomb-disposal machines, to have them carry machine guns, grenade launchers, or rockets.

After years of safety testing and modifications, three of these deadly SWORDS (“special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system”) robots were recently sent to Iraq. more>>>

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