Killer Robot to Promote Peace in Korea

From Samsung, the makers of all things high tech., comes a new development that will guard the border between North and South Korea. I’ll see your nuclear bomb and raise you an army of killer robots.

“two cameras: one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans/trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.”

All running on a slightly modified version of windows 98, no doubt. I’ll bet you the software behind the sophisticated tree/human recognition goes something like this:

public boolean isTree(PixelBlock pb) {
if (pb.isMoving()) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}

“…are expected to sell for $200,000 USD and will be available late in 2007. The South Korean government plans to deploy these friendly reminders on the border between South and North Korea, to further ease relations between the countries”

This is totally cool, they actually issue friendly reminders before placing a specific number of bullets in specific locations of the “bad guy”, or something resembling a “bad guy”, like for instance some soldier’s other set of combats, stuffed with leaves and thrown out from cover on a string. Unfortunately they don’t have legs so they can’t wander about seeking out the “enemy”. I guess that’s on hold for rev. 2. The most important thing is to get it out there shooting at anything vaguely human like in appearance.

I wonder how long before these appear on the US-Mexican border. “amigo de la buena tarde. ¿mi casa no es su casa, savi?”

14 November 2006 | General B.S. | Comments