The History Channel:
Sunday, October 22, 20067-8pm –
Robo-Warriors -
The U.S. military has made a major commitment to
deploying and developing robots for use on the
battlefield--from the highly successful bomb disposal
robots, to the unmanned aerial vehicles. We'll
preview the latest armed robot, with aim so accurate
and deadly that it virtually never misses its target
and look at the difficulties of making military
vehicles driverless. The use of robots in warfare fits
into some of the basic tenets of American fighting: to
reduce manpower with material and to kill the enemy
either at a distance or with a surrogate soldier. In
the future, the Pentagon hopes to have a ratio of 4-6
robots to every human soldier. It will be the human
soldiers, not the robots, according to the Department
of Defense, who will continue to make decisions of
life and death... at least in our lifetime.
