US Forces Want Man-Hunting Robot Wolfpacks

Well who wouldn't?

Arthur writes, quoting the above-linked article:

Trouser-moisteningly terrifying news broke this week, as it emerged that sinister forces within the US military are looking to develop a remorseless robotic wolfpack capable of hunting down "a non-cooperative human subject" in "an indoor environment".

Typical robots for this type of activity are expected to weigh less than 100 Kg and the team would have three to five robots.

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Not only will the skies of tomorrow be black with automated armadas of Reaper slay-planes, Fire Scout unmanned kill-choppers and possible crewless raygun cyber bombers; not only will thousands of years of human civilisation rapidly be reduced to smoking rubble; but even the option of cowering like a hunted beast in a cellar, sewer or tumbled monument has now been snatched away. Those hoping to survive for years after the machine uprising, subsisting on refuse and scuttling rat-like through the ruins until loneliness and horror finally bring merciful insanity and death, have been balked. Soulless squads of steel stormtrooper assassins will prowl the shattered cities of humanity like hunting velociraptor packs, sniffing out and snuffing the cowering remnant meatsacks, until a lifeless Pax Robotica rules the entire Earth unchallenged.

I'll be in my bunk.

But there's more! Some Brit professor thinks these robot wolfpacks are just the first step.

Wright has also predicted the coming of "a modern techno-politics" deploying "machine operatives" and "self-deciding automated sentinels" armed with a terrifying sci-fi panoply of microwave rayguns, pulse lasers, tranq bombs, plasma-lightning mob blasters, "vortex energy rings" and sonic beam weapons.

Microwave rayguns
Pulse Lasers
Tranq Bombs
PLASMA-LIGHTNING MOB BLASTERS
V O R T E X E N E R G Y R I N G S
Sonic Beam Weapons

The future can't come fast enough!

Barney Frank just wrote to say that the future will be delayed pending further notice.

posted by Ace at 05:40 PM

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