SGR-1, Robot Assassins from the Ginseng state

Korea - A high-tech robots equipped with machine guns and grenade launchers being developed by South Korea. The plan the robot will be deployed along the border of North Korea.

a robot named SGR-1 which was released in unmanned Demilaritarised Zone as part of the experimental program. The robot maker, Samsung Techwin, reported that this robot has the ability to target and kill the intruder with machine guns built-in 5.5 mm and 40mm grenade launchers.

Other features of the robots 'killers' of the "State Ginseng" is a heat detection, motion detectors and video and audio communication system. Each robot is costing U.S. $ 378,000 is claimed to not be able to operate without any command from the operator.

"Soldiers humans can easily fall asleep or lose concentration from time to time," said a spokeswoman for Samsung techwin, Huh Kwang-right. "But this robot has an automatic control that will not leave his place for something called laziness," he added.

The company also released a promotional video depicting the robot SGR-1 'fight' with a group of armed commandos. South Korean Government itself will review its plan in December before making a decision about the use of robots 'murderer' to permanently.

Microcopters,Killer-Apply Flappy things

So apparently the open-source robot people who made that fairly remarkable thing that wanders about the place plugging itself into wall-points…

… are giving away a load of them, to people who can come up with the best ideas for what they might actually be used for.

So what does this tell you?

A while back I started collecting examples of ‘Search and Rescue‘ robots – which are basically cool machines that people have made, but once they’ve made them, can’t think of anything to use them for other than spying on people or finding them when they’re lost.

Here are a recent-ish example:

The $2.1 million robot that will save your life

If you get lost. When was the last time you got lost? The last time I got lost was in a department store when I was 3. Sleep-walking doesn’t count. You’re only lost if you know you’re lost.

Anyway, here we are, hell-bent, racing forward at a phenomenal pace, creating this revolution… which we know we want, but we don’t know what for. So we make stuff like this:

Which is fair enough I suppose. A kid’s toy. Hopefully.

A kid’s toy with 18 servos and gyroscopes and more smarts than it took to land a man on the moon back in the 60s (ok, massive exaggeration, but you get the point).

But what are these things actually for? What did C3P0 actually do? He was a translator… yea, there’s an iPhone app for that. R2D2? A cross between an upturned dustbin and… an iPhone… with script-kiddie-level hacking software… a rootkit bot. R2D2 had viruses.

I know that industrial robots have gotten to be so advanced that they could probably make themselves from scratch… but they’re not the ones getting all the attention. The ones that aren’t terribly good for anything are.

So. My theory. The (or at least A) killer-app of robotics is…

… drum roll…

… the ability to make us think we’re flying.

I’ve never seen a gadget generate so much twitter excitement as this thing:

A little quadro-copter that you control with your iphone… and crucially, you see what it sees.

These have been around for a while in various guises, but this was the first one to really make a splash. There’s a variant here:

Which is scarier looking, but tough enough to carry a hi-def camera

Here’s another one with build instructions/BOM etc

Clocking in at around $415 – although you can probably add a bit to that. Still… no worries, the prices of these things are plummeting.

So anyway, the ability to fly is a real killer-app in my opinion… and in a lot of ways, being able to do it remotely is an advantage – ie: you don’t die. This design from Nasa for example looks great, but your head is inches away from 4 blades that are spinning fast enough to turn you into salami.

And it’s 5 metres wide, and will absolutely kill anything that gets in its way.

There was some discussion recently about what a real physics-obedient space-fighter would be like… and one of the things said was that there wouldn’t be windows because of the disorientation created by flipping about in zero-g, and the massive glare/darkness created by nearby stars/the void etc. So instead you’d have screens that showed (via camera) what was outside.

Well if you’re going to do that, you may as well not be in the spaceship at all. You might as well be in a flotation tank somewhere – allowing your spaceship to withstand g-forces, temperature, radiation etc etc that you couldn’t deal with yourself.

But I digress… I think that first-person, remote controlled microcopters are going to be a killer-app of the robotics revolution – not for search and rescue, but because everyone wants to be able to fly… and first-personism allows you to feel like you are, without risk of injury. Unless you crash into your own face or something.

• You could use them for meetings… fly off to your office, and sit around in a circle with the other gyrocopters all going “heh heh heh heh”.
• You could send them off to the shops to get crisps, beer, fags etc, so you wouldn’t have to get out of your flotation tank.
• You could set them up so when another gyrocopter sees you, augmented reality kicks in so it sees you, “at your best” when you’ve tidied yourself up a bit, and not as you really are… a little black helicopter, or someone lying starkers in a flotation tank, surrounded by spilled crisps, empty beer bottles and fag-ends.

Brilliant.

Robobug,reconnaissance-type insectoid robot

The use of robotic technology in the military has begun a long time. Among the use of robots dikesatuan police bomb squad, robot aircraft / UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for the purposes of reconnaissance missions, or as a sniper-detection equipment.

Even now, robotic technology has been used as the main military equipment in the Air Force (USAF) and Navy (Navy) United States, to replace their planes.

Ongoing technological evolution over time. Recently, one American company to test a piece of equipment suspected as spy equipment orders of insects berbetuk American intelligence agency, the Central Intellgence of America (CIA). Equipment that is Robobugs / insect spy robots.

Robobugs expected to be a tool for spying on opponents without a known opponent because of the shape and size as the original insect, and is scheduled to test at the range from 2007 to 2008.

Development
The need for a piece of equipment to spy on unwitting enemy opponent desperately needed the spy agency for the achievement of the mission in the field. CIA as a spy organization in the world famous, very aware of that.

CIA's request for the purposes of the latest spy equipment, positive response the U.S. government which was then forwarded to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Subsequently, DARPA researchers also asked the developers to do research to create a revolutionary product.

Project actually making insect spy robots have been planned since World War II. U.S. Defense Department data, said the U.S. government has made almost 100 models robot spies resemble an animal.

But to create a model of robot insects, then the technology can not achieve it, because it takes a lot of money and time to do research. Some experts say, it is impossible to make a robot for insects.

But then, at 30 years ago, the CIA through a body of research and development, revive the project with the name "Insecthocopter".

At that time the development of "Insecthocopter" using cyborg technology, like science fiction movies were popular in that era. Developers try to embed computer chips in the body of a native insect.

Form of "insecthocopter" resembles the present and adopt Etomopter termuktahir technology of its era. But in the end, the program was canceled because "insecthocopter" not able to survive a strong wind blows in the air.

Death of the development program "Insecthocopter" did not deter the CIA asked to continue to develop a vehicle for a spy to the shape resembles an insect.

Projects making insect spy robots was started back in 2000 by giving the development rights to private parties.

Some researchers from various companies began to do research this robobug development. Various carapun they do to create a robotic spy-shaped insects.

Your unique mode implemented, as long robobug researching the project, by implanting a computer chip that is better on native insects, create cyborg insects, and there are insects that make the robot from scratch.

It all made for researchers to obtain a patent from the government, also at the same time get a long-term contracts for development and procurement of equipment is a spy from the CIA.

In the end, patents granted to companies Reseach Corporation, Georgia Tech upon discovery of their employee named Robert Michelson, namely Etomopter.

Etomopter or also called the electromechanical Insects Multi function, is a robot capable of performing the supervisory function in the room.

Etomopter duties to perform oversight on the room is supported by the ability of an insect, such as flying in the air ventilation channel, elevator and crawled in between the sidelines of the door.

Different parts of the Etomopter consists of; of the fuselage. like airplanes, have etomopter body to accommodate the engine and all equipment.

Wing. Etomopter has two wings in front and behind the body between the body, like the letter X. berkonfigurasi These wings are made of fiberglass so it has a strong but flexible structure.

Reciprocating Chemical Muscle (RCM). Is a machine that functions like a living muscle, serves to drive the wing Etomopter.

Sensors. These tools are in the camera and works to see the scenery front, side and rear Etomopter.

Camera. The first prototype Etomopter have little cameras to perform surveillance functions. But in development, the final version has been equipped Etomopter more sophisticated camera.

Full mechanical ground is navigation equipment when Etomopter perform tasks / missions penyusuran on the mainland.

The legs, also known as a mover on land, this section contains anti-rotating equipment / rolling and appliance fuel container.

For business fuel sources, Etomopter menggunnakan fuel derived from chemical reactions. A monopropelant were injected into the body Etomopter causing chemical reactions that produce the fuel.

Fuel chemical reaction products that will move the pistons in the fuselage, these pistons will be connected to the spring in a pair of wings so that the wings are mengepakan wings many times.

Most of the gas produced will be released through vents in the wings so that the electronic insect body lifted into the air, through the ventilation-ventilation can also Etomopter bermanufer in the air.

Etomopter developed by Georgia Tech Research Corporation has a wingspan measures 10 centimeters inchi/25, this size is still too large for the size of robot insects.

Size required by the CIA is a measure such as native insects, so the opponent will get screwed because of its size resembles a native insect.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation continues to develop until it reaches the size of insects Etomopter original by developing forms of RCM are more streamlined and more flexible.

Etomopter development process into a robotic insects desired by the CIA took until about eight years.

It was only in 2007-2008, robotic insect spies who desired birth, with a wingspan measures just 7.5 inches and weighs 10 grams. When conducting field trials, DARPA monitoring.

Robobugs latest prototype is capable of carrying two cameras are placed in front of and below the body robobugs. This camera is equipped with sensors to capture every movement of the object being monitored.