soulxtc
January 18th, 2006, 10:36 AM
The South Korean government has launched $33.9 million spending appropriation to fund police and military robots within the next five years.
Man-bots will walk the beat at night and even chase perps.
http://www.sploid.com/images/robocop.jpg
Horse- or dog-shaped bots with six or eight "legs" will ride with the army.
"The robots will be directed by a remote control system or move autonomously via their own artificial intelligence systems," MIC project manager Oh Sang-rok said.
"The two sophisticated robots will be empowered by the country's state-of-the-art mobile network, thus enabling mass production at an affordable price," Oh noted.
They will be unveiling a line of robot domestics for home use this fall. Taking advantage of the bot-web to speed up computational processing, the new ones will be cheaper and faster than those in Japan.
READ ARTICLE (http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/01/robocop_heading.php)
Man-bots will walk the beat at night and even chase perps.
http://www.sploid.com/images/robocop.jpg
Horse- or dog-shaped bots with six or eight "legs" will ride with the army.
"The robots will be directed by a remote control system or move autonomously via their own artificial intelligence systems," MIC project manager Oh Sang-rok said.
"The two sophisticated robots will be empowered by the country's state-of-the-art mobile network, thus enabling mass production at an affordable price," Oh noted.
They will be unveiling a line of robot domestics for home use this fall. Taking advantage of the bot-web to speed up computational processing, the new ones will be cheaper and faster than those in Japan.
READ ARTICLE (http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/01/robocop_heading.php)