[extropy-chat] Phil Dick arrives in Iraq

[Damien Broderick]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65885,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1


Hunting for guerillas, handling roadside bombs, crawling across the caves 
and crumbling towns of Afghanistan and Iraq -- all of that was just a 
start. Now, the Army is prepping its squad of robotic vehicles for a new 
set of assignments. And this time, they'll be carrying guns.

As early as March or April, 18 units of the Talon -- a model armed with 
automatic weapons -- are scheduled to report for duty in Iraq. Around the 
same time, the first prototypes of a new, unmanned ambulance should be 
ready for the Army to start testing. In a warren of hangar-sized hotel 
ballrooms in Orlando, military engineers this week showed off their next 
generation of robots, as they got the machines ready for the war zone.
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