Hasta la vista -- BOOM

[dwer.livejournal.com]

Alt text="We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future."

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[merig00.livejournal.com]

That's why I was laughing at the last Terminator... those low flying huge machines. pffffff

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that the last Terminator was just....


Horrible. Yeah, horrible is the word I'd use.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Well, they're not really "robot" assassins; they're remote-controlled.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I hate them being called robots when there's some kid in Texas with a joystick controlling them. "Robot" means "autonomous."

[borgseawolf.livejournal.com]

They are autonomous -in the strip-. Or guided by sentient AI.

[hazardous-filth.livejournal.com]

"Robot" DOES NOT mean "autonomous". Sure that may be how science fiction often likes to uses the term/portray them, but in the real world a robot is simply a mechanical device that operates automatically or through teleoperation.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Bah, I didn't really mean "autonomous" but rather something that you program with a specific set of instructions and it executes them, and NOT something you control with a joystick from a remote location. That's not a robot, it's a remotely-operated device. A robot is something you give instructions to and it does it. A batch script on a computer is essentially a robot. An assembly machine in a car factory is a robot. There are tons of robots in the world, but something someone controls remotely isn't one of those.

[hazardous-filth.livejournal.com]

So for the record you don't think bomb-disposal robots, UAVs, USAR robots, robotic arms or almost any robots or items of robotics apart from assembly robots and batch scripts are robots?

A remotely-operated device ... You mean something given instruction from afar that then does them? Hmm

A robot is something you give instructions to and it does it
See above.

A batch script on a computer is essentially a robot.
Sorry where is the mechanical part? So Robots are any automated sequence?

Thanks for the update I'll go rewrite my thesis, mention this in my presentation at the international conference on automation and control plus tell my supervisors to pass this on at the next international robotics conference. I'd hate to think the whole field of robotics has had it wrong for so long :P

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

...but rather something that you program with a specific set of instructions and it executes them...

Like Israel has?

[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

Probably easier to kill 25 people by pressing a few keyboard buttons...

[pragmatic-chimp.livejournal.com]

Basically. It's a big, big fucking problem.