Aussie Army Trains With Fleet of Robots On Segways 109
kkleiner writes "The armed forces of the world have already begun to hunt down and shoot robots. No, it's not the beginning of the man-machine war; it's a state-of-the-art training simulation that's very cool to watch. Australia-based Marathon Robotics has taken Segways and turned them into human-shaped autonomous robots capable of moving around streets and buildings just like people in a crowd! The Marathon bots can act like insurgents, hostages, or civilians, letting armed soldiers practice before being exposed to the real thing. The Australian Department of Defense already has a training camp using the robots, and the US Marine Corps will be establishing one this year."
Re:Ridiculous (Score:5, Informative)
Politics aside (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Not to be obvious (Score:5, Informative)
I mean sure, they COULD just send their snipers off big game hunting, but that might not play so well.
Re:Australian Department of What? (Score:3, Informative)
Give the US its due. Many of its citizens have learned to speak the Queen's English with fairly good results, its just on the spelling front that they apparently have problems. Sadly, up here in Canada a lot of people are adopting the US spellings it seems. I presume this is due to so many spell checkers defaulting to the mangled US spellings for words (if they offer the correct spelling as an option at all).
Re:Overly complicated and expensive (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ridiculous (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Simulate people? (Score:2, Informative)
nah, we've given up on both those fronts and figured we might stand a chance of an actual victory if we stick in afghanistan
Re:Resourceful... and comical (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ridiculous (Score:3, Informative)