The Looming Robot Menace, part II

Writing about robots is a good excuse to link to that video that was going around a few week ago of the "Big Dog," which the Pentagon is funding in hopes that it could used as pack mule for soldiers.

Did anyone else feel sorry for the thing when it was kicked or when it was slipping on the ice? Our ability to anthropomorphize just about anything is amazing.

Anyway, I writing about these robots because of the looming robot menace. Surely these researchers watched the Terminator movies as kids or teenagers, and I image many of them might watch the reimagined Battlestar Galactica that is currently on the SciFi channel. Unfortunately, they must not be taking these shows seriously. First, we teach robots how to drive cars, then how to carry military gear off road, and now we working on teaching them how control limbs just like humans do. Creating Skynet or a Cylon is not too far off.