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Indeed. Imagine an 8 foot tall version coming at you. Tanks of the future?

Or even better, attack dogs of the future. When I got home last night the first thing my roommate did was show me that video and then remind me of the "rat things" in Snow Crash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Rat_Things

Immagine they are not controlled by humans. Even more scary.

Imagine if they could efficiently vacuum your floor and mow your lawn. We're still a long way from robot world domination.

The "funny" thing is that it's probably easier to make a robot-killer than a robot that will cook me a variety of healthy meals.

Yeah, after you have motion down, you would just need to be able to detect a heat signature and shoot at it. I doubt that's very difficult compared to what they've already done.

There are already robots for that. Not so fancy, but they somewhat work.

I wasn't speaking about "robot world domination". That implies intelligent machines and this is not. But it looks like this one is pretty efficient in recognizing obstacles, and shapes. Once they can recognize targets, humans just need to deploy them and they will be much more efficient, without the need of human pilots. And they can come in different sizes and shapes.

I find it quite scary, and the DARPA logo at the end of the movie does not help.

DARPA is the reason you are interacting with other people on this website. The logo doesn't automatically mean "to be used for evil".

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