Robot Gun Sentry

[ocabj]

http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develops_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php

Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. It is equipped with two cameras with zooming capabilities one for day time and one for infrared night vision. It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun. The robot also has a speaker to warn the intruder to surrender or get a perfect headshot. The robots will go on sale by 2007 for $ 200,000 and will be deployed on the border between North and South Korea.

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You know you want a few of these for your house.

 

[kd7nqb]

Ah beat me to it I saw this on slashdot and thought of popping it on here too. Its great and all but I might have a better use for 200k

 

[ocabj]

Haha. You read Slashdot? NERD!

...That's where I saw the article, too.

 

[Biker]

I want one for my beer cooler for when we go on weekend runs. I can trust my Bros with my house, my dogs, even my wife but not my brew.
Fact is, I'd have to program the thing to only shoot off pinky toes, I have to say.
Must be gettin' soft in my old age.

Biker

 

[Big Calhoun]

I wonder if that would be considered a 'booby trap'?

 

[up_onus]

heck, it would be fun just to have one of those that didnt even shoot! just looked all evil and sounded off "Warning: leave the premises or be shot in the head". hahaha, id bet that would be enough to keep most theives away....

 

[Third_Rail]

Re: "booby trap"... it would be, most likely. Rather unfortunate that it would be considered that, though! I can think of 1,000,000 uses.

 

[GEM]

Looks like the guns they had in Aliens - the director's cut.

They might work for military but at home, when they zap the cable guy - oops.

 

[Manedwolf]

Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry.

 

[GunnySkox]

I saw an amateur effort at that sort of thing (with the recognizing-that-dudes-are-not-trees style, and such) that some guy had built using a webcam and an airsoft gun. Obviously, it wasn't as advanced, but it makes me wonder if one couldn't rig up some kind of nifty less-lethal thing (like a paintball gun or a pepper fogger thing) for use at home or in prisons and such.

~GnSx

 

[kungfuhippie]

I'd like to get the software and wire it to my own camera and gun setup. But still, who here knows what "hands up or I'll shoot you in the head" sounds like in Korean? I want my foil hat. I'm thinking Terminator movies!

Maybe homewland security can get a few for the Mexican border
We can replace the gun with one that shoots menudo

 

[iocane]

Just make it remote control. I made a simple one once for practice. It wasn't rigged to fire, just to swivel a gun around.

 

[ZeSpectre]

so the evil part of me is thinking of a paintball version of this with different colored dye markers for different days of the month. Line 'em up along the border and you'd be able to tell when somebody crossed

(Joke, it's a joke...okay not a good one but it's been a long day)

 

[RexDart]

The brothers who built the airsoft sentry gun are trying to start a company to commercialize them. Web page here: http://www.usmechatronics.com/

Also, a link to the original Slashdot story here.

 

[PILMAN]

Wow that's pretty neat.

 

[ozwyn]

I found myself having questions on the system

1) Why 5.56? I mean, a setup like this you can definitely go bigger. 7.62 might be nice, .50 would generate the appropriate deterrence value. ("screw you buddy, you go out there, I'm staying back here") Particularly since it is for border defence.

2) Power and networking - how long can it run on batteries alone, and how well does it communicate what it detects to command? Those are both big issues for a border defense system.

3) If there a bulk discount? We need to order, say, 30k units for own own borders....

4) Multiple weapon selections. Would be darn nice to be able to choose 5.56 for some threats, a hellfire or similiar system for armor threats, and something else for nonlethal response. (actually, it owuld be damned neat if the system had some kind of rangefinding and coordinate communication system so in the event of a major breech it could call artillery)

 

[nbkky71]

Interesting...

now all we need is hundreds of angry xenomorphs trying to attack us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a27eMoithqo&eurl=

 

[Outlaws]

They might work for military but at home, when they zap the cable guy - oops.

...or the meter reader.

 

[Deer Hunter]

So...

What gun for Robots?

 

[torpid]

>>THEY--CAN--HAVE--MY--GUN--WHEN--THEY--PRY--IT--FROM--MY--COLD--METAL--CLAWS<<

 

[MrTuffPaws]

So...

What gun for Robots?

anything in 7.62 steel core, duh.

 

[SuperNaut]

These aren't manufactured by Diebold are they?

 

[torpid]

These aren't manufactured by Diebold are they?

No, I think these actually work.

 

[JohnL2]

Does it come with a 10 year 100,000 mile warranty? What happens when it runs out of ammo? Does it hurl insults in Korean?

 

[Hardware]

What happens when it runs out of ammo? Does it hurl insults in Korean?

Duh! It throws the gun at the bad guys!