South koreas sentry

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SEOUL, Sept. 29, 2006 — South Korea has unveiled an armed robot that it says will able to detect and repel intruders along its heavily armed border with North Korea.

The so-called "Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot" uses visual and infra-red detection to distinguish between humans, trees, and vehicles, and can do so from 2.5 miles away during the day and about half that at night.

"Until now, technology allowed these robots to conduct monitoring function[s] only. But [now] our robots can detect suspicious moving objects, literally go after them, and can even fire at them," said Sang-Il Han, principal research engineer at Samsung Techwin.

Once the target is within 10 meters, it will demand a pre-programmed military secret code. If this code is not provided, it could give three possible responses: sound an alarm, fire rubber bullets or open fire with a K-3 machine gun.

was doing some searches on google for my assignment and came across this, it was unvieled last year in september and can shoot anything after detecting it almost 2.5 miles away.

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Is htis all automatic? OR does a human have to ok. If the choice is given to the machine as a technician I can attest that machines don't always work how they are supposed to.

Originally posted by Shirak
Is htis all automatic? OR does a human have to ok. If the choice is given to the machine as a technician I can attest that machines don't always work how they are supposed to.

It's automatic.

Wasn't it an SK anti-air automated gun that went ape and killed 17 people around it a few years ago?

Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi

Originally posted by Shirak
Is htis all automatic? OR does a human have to ok. If the choice is given to the machine as a technician I can attest that machines don't always work how they are supposed to.

It's automatic.

Wasn't it an SK anti-air automated gun that went ape and killed 17 people around it a few years ago?

It was South African not South Korean but yes, scary as hell...

We’re not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger.

Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own.

The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday."

Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14

Ghost in the machine? Or coverup. I know which sounds more plausible.
I was just reading another ATS thread about Robotic sentries which can A sound an alarm. B fire rubber bullets. C fire a machine gun. I could not determine if this was automatic or not by the article.

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Yeah, that's the story.

Scary stuff indeed. This is why I don't like drone equipment that is designed to discriminate between targets and open fire on its own; it leads to incidences unlike the South African AA cannon where the killing is more than just a simple software malfunction.

I have worked extensively in the electromechanical repair industry. Machines designed by humans malfunction. Attach a made in (insert cheapest manufacturing company to win the bid here) and you have a recipe for all sorts of shenanigans...