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Re: SWORDS-military robots
FIRST robots communicate in an environment of gracious professionalism. Each robot is controlled by its own team or by the field supervisor because it communicates only on its assigned radio channel.
Our net linked computers communicate in an environment that also includes some ungracious amateurs and a few malicious professionals, but we continue to connect to the internet, participate in forums like CD, order things online, etc.
Military robots will communicate in an environment that is very likely to include technical experts with extremely malicious objectives that oppose those of the robots' operators. Working out ways to turn a killer robot against its operators could become a deadly serious software and comms competition.
Threat or opportunity?
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
Last edited by Richard Wallace : 04-05-2005 at 19:33.
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