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Inventor of self-checkout says robots will replace soldiers

By Sean Gallagher | Published: February 23, 2009
Howard S. Smith, founder of Optimal Robotics, the company that invented and marketed the first grocery store self-checkout system, has also written a redux of Issac Asimov’s “I Robot”. In an interview with GCN’s Patrick Marshall, he warned of the rapid coming of the robot soldier: Robots will make war much easier. If machines [...]
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Robots on the range

By Sean Gallagher | Published: February 12, 2009
The Rat did a one-blogger blogger roundtable with folks from the Army evaluating robots for removing unexploded ordnance yesterday. The Army Environmental Command looked at a number of robots developed by the Air Force Research Lab’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate for the job of clearing and expanding its ranges, taking people out of the [...]
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