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South Korea Deploys Robot Sentry on North Korean Border

by Lee Bains on July 14, 2010 at 01:15 PM

While the West's tiff with the Reds might have cooled in recent years, such is not the case in Asia, where South Korea and North Korea eye one another with suspicion and animosity. So, leave it to South Korea, which clearly has the whole technology thing figured out, to deploy robot soldiers along its northern border.

Based on the testimonies of unidentified South Korean military officials, the AFP reports that two robots -- able to spy on, track, shoot and recognize the voices of human targets -- have been incorporated into one military unit. Apparently, each unit costs $330,000, and relies on heat and motion sensors to get a bogey in its sights. Then, the deathbot can unleash either its rifle or its automatic grenade launcher. And we thought we had border disputes, but we'll take mounties over deadly bots any day. [From: AFP/Google News]

Tags: coldwar, kim jong il, KimJongIl, military, militarytech, northkorea, robot, Robots, soldiers, south korea, southkorea, top

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BobJul 16th 2010 11:23PM

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lol , looks like a king size toy . You desire to see man robots goto Japan Humaniod Robots.com , it is only a matter of time before WE shall have humaniod robots walking around and being our personnel slaves WE pay employment taxes on , yet can be on days off or retired , yet humaniod robot working for us and bring home our pay scale same as day retired , then we prosper very highly and retire at 4 to 6 times higher pay scales and only have to work say ~30 days a year , while our robot slave is being R&R'd part wize for next 12 months of service ! Employers , may even like it when robots are on duty , more so , than the owner ! lol

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