I’ve cautioned that robots will take over the Earth.

In fact, Battlestar Galactica may foretell the future. The Cylons are yet taking baby steps:

The bad news: the U.S. military has commissioned a robot helicopter equipped with a rifle capable “of tracking and killing a particular individual.” The good news: the “particular individual” could be Geraldo Rivera.

And in what it calls an effort to “ease tensions,” South Korea is moving ahead with plans to post robot sentries along its border with the North — because really, nothing eases tensions between two historic rivals quite like the deployment of robots equipped with night-vision sensors and machine guns that open fire at the slightest hint of movement.

… The big hit of the recent RoboBusiness Conference in Boston was the unveiling of the Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, or BEAR, from Vecna Robotics. This robot has a balancing system that allows it to crouch and race across a battlefield at up to 35 km/h to retrieve a wounded soldier and bring him to medics, before going back to fetch the four other soldiers it ran over and crushed while saving the first guy.

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