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[Zoidberg]

Samsung develops machine gun sentry robot costs $200k

The video has some cool music

Does anyone else think putting them on the border is somewhat ill advised?

[thebum]

[JongnoGuru]

Some of the comments were good.

That's quite simple to counter this... just send an army wearing tree costumes

This is old technology. They had this in Alien - the first version.

Go Go Gadget Machine Gun!

Anybody notice how all the targets wandered about with their hands hanging all monkey like. I'd say the software was designed to accept surrender with hands up. So if you wanted to walk right by it, just put your hands up, put your hands way up!

And you deal with the countermeasure of a kid with a paintgun how, exactly?

Also, this design does not move, which means that it has all of the problems that any fixed emplacement system has - including those of being blindsided using known terrain features and low tech approaches, such as paintball shots to its sensor ports or something as simple as a very large blanket thrown over it which would allow attackers to move into the blind areas (shown on your own video) and use other means such as shaped charges, to disable the system.

And I have not even begun to address other, more sophistacated methods of blinding television-based systems, which are numerous.

There is NO substitute for combined ground defense systems that do not include boots on the ground. There's always some wiseguy out there who will figure out a way to pull the plug.

Ask any Special Forces grunt. Or teenage prankster.

[flotsam]

Let's turn this thread into a contest on future headlines involving this robot, shall we?

[Juregen]

Headline

Gun Sentry Robot kills neighbours cat!

[Zoidberg]

It appears this is but a part of the SK military's plan for the future: High-Tech Military in Due Course

And this article has some suggestions about how to make it more crazy...

[Demophobe]