Tag: combat

  1. Peter W. Singer at HacDC.

    03 June 2009

    Forget moblogging. It’s too much hassle to be workable because it never works, and it wrecks my formatting.

    I just got back from HacDC, where tonight Peter Singer, author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century presented on the topic of applied military robotics. While it seems a bit cliche’ to say this, they aren’t science fiction anymore, military robots are actually recent history. Drones and teleoperated robots have been in use in Iraq and Afghanistan since the get go, and the last official count has over seven thousand robots in use …

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