Robot soldier

by **El Cid** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 2:32 pm

How far off do you think the armed forces are from a robot soldier? Can you imagine an RTCW like robot soldier? That would save a lot of lives for one side at least. Some of the players of RTCW are really skilled, if they controlled an actuall robot on the battlefield it would be one heck of a soldier. What do you think?

by **pressure** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 2:55 pm

I'm not sure i get wat u mean.

by **flapjack** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 2:56 pm

Imagine...army of robosapiens with lollies in their little hands and dynamite strapped to thier little backs...trick or treat...makes me wake up all sweaty:)

by **El Cid** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:00 pm

Im thinking the Honda corporation has the Asimo, which can walk and stuff but it cant run. There are some robots that can run. But I wonder how far the top secret stuff is? I bet they have something.. its not too much of a stretch. Just imagine what you can do on Beach mod, leaping jumping, tossing nades, shooting.

by **pressure** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:47 pm

ok well. i dont like robots but the whole idea itself is pretty cool.

by **MoJo** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:33 pm

Totally

by **Sabres** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:40 pm

I get what you mean. That would surely kick some major ass.

by **<BD>BlItZ=F5=** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:34 am

Far as robotic androids go, they are useless.

Far as military robots go, theres plenty already in action. Including the spy planes etc etc.

And you guys idea of a robot humanoid is rather stupid, a 2legged soldier compared with a treaded mobile vehicle... yeh I think a remote control tank is a little friendlier... well user-wise =D

by **El Cid** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:56 am

Originally posted by <BD>BlItZ=F5=
Far as robotic androids go, they are useless.

Far as military robots go, theres plenty already in action. Including the spy planes etc etc.

And you guys idea of a robot humanoid is rather stupid, a 2legged soldier compared with a treaded mobile vehicle... yeh I think a remote control tank is a little friendlier... well user-wise =D

Freindlier? What doest that have to do with anything? And your treaded vehicle is going to have a tough time negotiating a door, hopping a curb, climbing a ladder, crawling through a hole, jumping etc. A treaded vehicle is useless in an urban combat zone. And don't call my idea stupid. If I had a soldier that was controlled by a mouse and a keyboard as easily as one controls a player in Castle Wolfenstein I would own your treaded vechicle everyday.

by **[FSU]SkunX** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:12 pm

...nuke whatever your fighting...lol... it'll be that way in the future anyways.

by **SpaceCoyote** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:05 am

Originally posted by El Cid
Friendlier? What doest that have to do with anything? And your treaded vehicle is going to have a tough time negotiating a door, hopping a curb, climbing a ladder, crawling through a hole, jumping etc. A treaded vehicle is useless in an urban combat zone.

I don't really see that bot from Honda doing any of those things any time soon either.. The best I've seen it manage is walking up some shallow steps, very very slowly

Originally posted by pressure
ok well. i dont like robots

Now that's just mean.. What did robots ever do to you?

by **cavalierlwt** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:34 am

The bipedal robot will get better pretty quickly, give it 15 years or so.
I wonder if that's the best form though. I think having 'legs' is the best solution for all around travel (stairs, ladders, etc). Maybe a four or six legged bot would be best. Each leg having a foot kind of like a monkeys foot (which is pretty much like a monkey's hand I suppose). In other words, a foot that can grasp things like a hand can. Make it relatively small and light, maybe the size of a dog, 50 lbs or so.
Then thing would be really interesting: who would be dominant? The US has a very advanced military, but perhaps a country like Japan might emerge as a new Superpower overnight.
Either way, poor countries would be utterly f*#*'d when it comes to war. It's bad (from their point of view) that they have to deal with kill/death ration that nearly 1000 to 1, imagine if Western nations used primarily robots? Millions of these little high tech wonders shooting up a city, and very little that can be done in response. No one would give a sh*t if we lost 500 robots a day, or if you released a video of masked men decapitating a robot.

by **LordShard** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:45 am

Originally posted by cavalierlwt
The bipedal robot will get better pretty quickly, give it 15 years or so.
I wonder if that's the best form though. I think having 'legs' is the best solution for all around travel (stairs, ladders, etc). Maybe a four or six legged bot would be best. Each leg having a foot kind of like a monkeys foot (which is pretty much like a monkey's hand I suppose). In other words, a foot that can grasp things like a hand can. Make it relatively small and light, maybe the size of a dog, 50 lbs or so.
Then thing would be really interesting: who would be dominant? The US has a very advanced military, but perhaps a country like Japan might emerge as a new Superpower overnight.
Either way, poor countries would be utterly f*#*'d when it comes to war. It's bad (from their point of view) that they have to deal with kill/death ration that nearly 1000 to 1, imagine if Western nations used primarily robots? Millions of these little high tech wonders shooting up a city, and very little that can be done in response. No one would give a sh*t if we lost 500 robots a day, or if you released a video of masked men decapitating a robot.

heh, it's like in star wars right?

robots=goocloned footsoldiers=better

probably would have latency issues for close combat being remote controled from miles away. Or destroy their antennas, EMI, signal jacking, signal jamming ect.

Would need an AI or else even a thunderstorm could put out whole battalions.

by **cavalierlwt** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:04 am

Latency shouldn't be problem, UAV are flown from miles away, no latency issue there, radio signals travel at the speed of light. Might not want to have EA do the programming though

As for jamming, signal jacking, yeah, that's where the new battle would be in a fight between high tech states. It doesn't seem like that kind of war happens anymore. I'm not sure I would even consider former Soviet bloc states to be truly high tech.
But as for AI, that's where things really get scary though. I don't even like to think about it.
It do believe some form of this is the near term future though. Should be very interesting.
Last year, (in Iraq or Afghanistan, I don't remember which) a Predator UAV carrying a missile attacked a car carrying suspected terrorists. It wasn't that long ago that the concept of remote control planes attacking targets was just science fiction.

by **Sabres** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:24 am

Originally posted by SpaceCoyote
Now that's just mean.. What did robots ever do to you?

haha

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