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WAR (Weapons Against Robots) Defence

thrillist.com — Amazing article on robot fighting technology, "Founded by serial entrepreneur/dot com millionaire Ben Way, WAR is set to cash in on future robo-assaults with a range of weapon and detection systems that would blow your mind if you could only imagine them. We probed Ben's visions and glimpsed a horrible future filled with inhuman killing machines."

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 13, 2008

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  • pronouncable, on 11/13/2008, -0/+20Clearly set up by robots themselves in hopes to sabotage any real defense we'll have set up come the robo-rebellion.
  • chrissku, on 11/13/2008, -1/+15*****.....T2 might become a training video.
  • Rivetgeek, on 11/13/2008, -0/+12As a robot designer and builder I can tell you that building a robot that can respect the 3 laws is at least 50 years away. Building a robot that can kill, we did that 20 years ago.
  • inactive, on 11/13/2008, -2/+13Please don't kill me when I upgrade my body. I only want to use it for cybersex. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
  • TheMachine1, on 11/13/2008, -0/+11Ben Way knows his WAR "research" effort is a ***** cover story. He is really looking for "The One".
  • phore, on 11/13/2008, -0/+11The humans are dead! The humans are dead! We used poisonous gases, and we poisoned their asses!
  • iamichi, on 11/13/2008, -1/+11No disassemble!!!
  • Fabbyfubz, on 11/13/2008, -2/+10SAVE JOHN CONNOR
  • austang, on 11/13/2008, -0/+7"Danger Will Robinson, Danger!"
    ..as the robot attempts to kill Will Robinson.
    Tricky bastard.
  • iamichi, on 11/13/2008, -1/+7I like that idea... Load of robots sitting round watching T2 in preparation to become our overloads. Maybe they will also give them Xbox 1080s and games that allow them to simulate our destruction first.
  • jeuhrn, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5This guy is a hack, why not just use a phased plasma rifle with a bulb in the 40 watt range?
  • Jarulf, on 11/13/2008, -4/+9I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
  • LordMoolybap, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5As a robot designer I must warn you. I have already gone back in time and begun altering history as you know it.
    Televisions would have been black and white if it wasn't me and the Spice Girls would still be number 1. Thank God I did what I did.
  • Stickeh, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4Binary Solo!
  • linagee, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4...FOR DINNER (His robot girlfriend will soon turn against him. Again.)
  • mickstephenson, on 11/13/2008, -0/+40000001000000110000001000000110000001000000100000010000001,
    Once again without emotion
  • quentinp, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4giggety giggety
  • SniperZero, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3why not? I think we will figure out how to connect with our brain before we invent AI thats smart enough to teach its self to the stage of dominating the world.
  • int19h, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3What if they only kill other robots?
  • Gareth321, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2I want to thank you for changing my life
  • CrushThemTorg, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2What about building a robot that can love?
  • binky79, on 11/13/2008, -1/+3Hesh is gonna stay human. He'll die in the first wave.
  • inactive, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2Robots should never, ever be in a position to even consider killing someone. News like this depresses me.
  • mrtword, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2Quick, someone call Yoshimi!
  • jeuhrn, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2Seems many people have your POV, so I'll just paste this from a forum-thread.

    "Tasers use less than 40 watts... so do the new laser-tasers that use conductive paths generated by UV lasers. 40 watts of gamma rays is pretty lethal. If you'd spend more time in the many alt universes where the US kept the 2nd Amendment in force, you'd be more familiar with weapon technologies invented after 1947 :D ."

    But I don't know what's the correct effect for a weapon that doesn't actually exist.

    (it's a quote from The Terminator, btw, probably slightly butchered from deep memory storage in my brain)
  • XeRoX2k2, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2...then jump into the past and kill his grandfather and great grandfather just to be sure
  • NomortaL1, on 11/13/2008, -1/+2you cant plug into the matrix so you fail
  • 0zymandias, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1What - no FOTC link yet?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64

    Edit: Sorry, phore - must have passed over your comment
  • mrzeero, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Well at least you will be able to hear this model coming for you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
  • Rivetgeek, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1try a couple thousand watts. 40 watts is enough slighty sting if you lick the bulb itself.
  • quentinp, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Blitterstaff FTW!
  • CrushThemTorg, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Affirmative. The humans are dead.
  • SniperZero, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1well if we end up in the matrix and i get god like powers i don't care if robots take over :)
  • TinTin42, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Damn you, it was me that put the Spice Girls in place, it was me that bought shares in Black and White televisions, I shall catch up to you one day and destory you! GAH
  • linagee, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1LOL. Silly Humans. The robot army will have planned on a counter-counter measure years before this technology mentioned in the article ever comes to be! You see, robots will win no matter what.
  • inactive, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Something to listen to while reading: http://www.soundclick.com/player/stations_player.c ...
    Skip to "Robot Army"
  • DeadManWalking, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Anyone else see this and think of One Must Fall?
  • inactive, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1I see what you did there, after you seen what I had done there. We both seen there. Welcome.
  • teamgwho, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1BedeBedeBedeBedeBedeBedeBedeBede
  • MrFurious2k, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Thank God, finally someone shares my concern about the coming robot apocalypse. We must join hands to defeat this coming robotic menace
  • Bauer22, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Why do I suspect your "WMD" is just the the Iraqi ones? Cannot be found.
  • KingGorilla, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Free Soda For All Humans!
  • fanshanable, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1i poked one it was dead.
  • fanshanable, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1nice
  • osukwm, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1If so, robots make damn cool websites.

    http://www.wardefence.com/
  • XeRoX2k2, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1EMPS??
  • Ademan, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1For our amusement...
  • mikeynez, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
    --Albert Einstein
  • pradvan, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1Someone should make a movie where robots take over the world and where robots send other robots back in time to kill this dude
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