Saturday, January 21, 2006

Robot Cops to Patrol Korean Streets





The South Korean government has robot fever, and they're about to unleash a whole army -- literally -- of the mechanized creatures on their public. According to The Korea Times, the country will see the rollout of police and military robots within the next five years, thanks to a newly approved $33.9 million spending appropriation. Patrol bots will guard the streets at night, and even chase criminals, while horse-shaped combat bots will augment the country's fighting force. In both cases, the bots will communicate via Korea's vast mobile network.

(Via Parrish Baker.)

3 comments:

razorsmile said...

[simplemindedresponse]Woohoo![/simpleminded]

Mac said...

Yeah, this should be good.

W.M. Bear said...

I suspect Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Plus One (the "Zeroth") will be the first casualty.