Thai scientists have developed a bodyguard robot, capable of firing a weapon that it directs using a laser
Thai scientists have developed a bodyguard robot, capable of firing a weapon that it directs using a laser.
The robot, known as Roboguard, is able to shoot automatically according to programming or according to a command it will receive from its human masters via the Internet. The robot has infrared sensors, which allow it to track human movements. When controlled via the Internet, activation is done using a coded and encrypted "fire" command. Currently, the machine, which consists of multiple cameras and a small video camera, is on an adjustable tray, but the inventor hopes to develop it into a robot that can chase its target on foot.
The inventor, Pitihata Sorakasa of the Bangkok Institute of Technology, said: "We can make it portable. It can also be designed as a portable system. We have the technology." The current Roboguard is equipped with an air gun, but Soraxa says it would be very simple to upgrade it to a more powerful weapon, such as a machine gun. This idea is very alarming to British robotics experts. Kevin Warrick, a cyberneticist at the University of Reading, who has often warned of the danger of robots gaining too much power, said: "Something can always go wrong. We must not allow coincidences, we must think about including laws like Asimov's, but even robots can then find a way around them ".
In 1940, the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote the three laws of robotics, the purpose of which is to prevent robots from harming people: a robot must not harm a human being, it must obey orders from humans, and it must protect its existence as long as it does not conflict with the two previous laws.
Chris Cherensky of the Center for Computational Intelligence at the University of Montfort in Leicester, said: "To me it looks terrible and terrible. What about the delays that exist on the Internet when the line is busy? What you see and the thing the gun is aimed at could be completely different things. In the end you could shoot anything."
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