Robot Living

We all know that iRobot has teamed up with Taser to create a taser wielding packbot. If you do not think this is a very dangerous or scary idea, then watch the following video put forth by Taser here. As you can see from the screen grab, it’s another showdown between man and machine. Sound familiar?

For now they say it will not be autonomous and that humans will have to push the trigger button. But they also hope to make these robots completely autonomous in the future. What happens if the taser equipped robot gets severed in half? Will it continue firing tasers like the Terminator crawling towards it prey while also severed in half? Also, how will it decide who or whom is an appropriate target? How does it know the difference between “us” and “them”? Watch the short video before making up your mind in this months poll.