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WIRED: Is the Navy Trying To Start The Robot Apocalypse? ?Whenever the military rolls out a new ro?

By Glenn Reynolds

WIRED: Is the Navy Trying To Start The Robot Apocalypse? “Whenever the military rolls out a new robot program, folks like to joke about SkyNet or the Rise of the Machines. But this time, the military really is starting to venture into robot-apocalypse territory: swarms of little semi-autonomous machines that can team up to manufacture complex objects (including, presumably, more robots). That?s right, the only thing scarier than a swarm of intelligent military mini robots is a swarm of intelligent military mini robots in control of the means of production. And your Navy is hard at work on making it a reality.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).