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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 28th, 2010 2:34pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter bleedmegood.

All I could think of was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs#t=0m30s

WHICH Korea?!? This is the important question for god's sake.

Need a dispenser here.

>> ^Bruti79:

All I could think of was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs#t=0m30s


LoL, all I could think about was the Jackal "Hold up that pack of cigarettes". Seriously, well done to the people built that for making the world just a little bit more like a hellish video game. In return I promise that if I'm ever near the scene of a suicide bombing or something, I'll be the first one in there calling "Terrorists win!"

>> ^Napalm:

WHICH Korea?!? This is the important question for god's sake.
There could be a clue in the title "South Korean Robot Sentry"

LOL. The music!

*asia *music

Adding video to channels (Asia, Music) - requested by ant.

we all know those sentires will fuck up sooner or later and they're gonna shoot kids or what. this is stupid and dangerous.

It's like ED209 with a Korean voice. "Drop your weapon. You have 15 seconds to comply. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..."

holy crap, it's made by Samsung! does it mean i can buy one of these and hook up to my Samsung HDTV with their proprietary cables?

>> ^conan:

we all know those sentires will fuck up sooner or later and they're gonna shoot kids or what. this is stupid and dangerous.


Yes, thank god humans with guns have never screwed up and shot kids.

I don't speak Korean, so I can't tell if it is really autonomous or if there is a human controlling it remotely. It would be smart to have a few of these things around the perimeter of a secure area and one person monitoring them to make the important decisions. The motion tracking, night vision, and precision shooting would be a huge improvement over a typical human guard.

"...and then they gave us eyes, that was when we decided to take what was ours." - Robot historian

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This could be the land mine scourge of the 21st century.

We all know from every video game ever that you can hack the sentries and turn them on their creators...

Techwin indeed Samsung, techwin indeed.

This is what happens when you live next door to Kim Jong Il.

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^conan:
we all know those sentires will fuck up sooner or later and they're gonna shoot kids or what. this is stupid and dangerous.

Yes, thank god humans with guns have never screwed up and shot kids. <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/smile.gif">


difference is: a human can be prosecuted. but whose fault is it if this thing goes bananas? operator? creator / engineer? manufacturer? they'll all say "nono, this other part is faulty, not ours".

@dag the sift FAQ says videos can be in up to 7 channels. This one is 8. What's up?

time to stock up on multitools

Robot sentries require an 8th variable, else your life is viable.

>> ^Deano:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://dag.videosift.com" title="member since February 16th, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 136, 0);">dag the sift FAQ says videos can be in up to 7 channels. This one is 8. What's up?

I, for one, welcome our new-- aw, screw it.

SCV RUSH!!

But can they mow down a standing army of 2 million North Koreans ready to invade via underground tunnels?

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One should not question the will of Siftbot. (especially on a post about an ass kicking robot)>> ^Deano:

@dag the sift FAQ says videos can be in up to 7 channels. This one is 8. What's up?

Somewhere in a Pleasure Dome in North Korea a short dictator just pooped himself.

WTF? Pirates of the Caribbean music at 1:17.

>> ^conan:

difference is: a human can be prosecuted. but whose fault is it if this thing goes bananas? operator? creator / engineer? manufacturer? they'll all say "nono, this other part is faulty, not ours".


I would say the people that deployed it would own the lion's share of the responsibility in your hypothetical situation.

Situation A: Whack-job soldier takes his government issued rifle, his military-instilled proficiency with that weapon/tool, and either an inborn but latent mental instability OR a poor reaction to an extremely stressful situation, and goes nuts and shoots some civilians / kids / baby bunnies.

Who was at fault for him going bananas? The gun manufacturer? I would say no, but would accept that they have a *very* tertiary share. The soldier's parents? Gonna have to go with no. The soldier himself? Quite possibly. The military that trained him? Certainly in a sense, but it would be very difficult to hold them accountable. His commanding officers? Definitely a possibility, but "I was ordered to do it" only gets you so far (see Nuremberg).


Situation B: Autonomous robot sentry is enabled and placed into a live-fire environment by a commissioned military officer. It suffers from either a computer-bug "glitch" that results in it incorrectly identifying enemy combatants versus civilians while in the field or a complete lack of any system to differentiate the two, and goes out and mows down civilians / kids / baby bunnies.

How about this time? The development team of engineers, programmers, designers, etc.? Again I would say no, but if they were provably negligible in either fully testing and implementing good, working threat / non-threat identification OR clearly conveying the limitations of the system to the military they are selling it to, then sure they share in the responsibility. The assembly line workers that put the machine together? Nah. The robot sentry itself? Not unless you blame the gun in situation A. The officer that turned the thing on and turned it loose? I figure this is most analogous to the soldier in situation A. This person should know their tool, whether it be a firearm or an automated sentry robot, and is most directly responsible for what happens as a result of its use. The military itself? Certainly for a share, particularly if they failed to train the deploying officer and inform them of the limitations of the tool / weapon / platform.


It is never black and white and arguments could be made for any assignment of blame in either situation, but to me I don't feel that situation B is particularly more gray than A.

They're dropped by a Raven, so there's a little teching up to do

>> ^ponceleon:

SCV RUSH!!

>> ^acidSpine:

>> ^Napalm:
WHICH Korea?!? This is the important question for god's sake.
There could be a clue in the title "South Korean Robot Sentry"


Note to self: Stop trying to make jokes on the internet.

Thanks for this, now I know not to buy Samsung products.

I doubt it... You can only text them to tell them what to do.>> ^mxxcon:

holy crap, it's made by Samsung! does it mean i can buy one of these and hook up to my Samsung HDTV with their proprietary cables?

>> ^dag:

This could be the land mine scourge of the 21st century.


At least these might run out of batteries.