The scariest thing I have ever seen

From the department of holyfuckingshit comes this robot called BigDog. It walks on 4 legs, can carry 350lbs over any terrain and looks eerily like two humans stooped over carrying something on their back....a fitting metaphor I suppose.

http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/seb/comments/big_dog_shows_that_robots_are_getting_more_capable_all_the_time/

The defense department wants fully autonomous robotic soldiers to do their dirty work in the future. No more risk to US soldiers...if you can still call them that. I'm not so sure that some highschool dropout sitting in a bunker somewhere controlling a bunch of robots like it was a game of "World of Warcraft" really qualifies as a "soldier". Anyway, it's a scary fucking world we live in when our government might not even have to have the cooperation of actual US citizens to wage war. Personally I think we need to enact a law right now that prohibits robotic soldiers from attacking humans. The only thing a robotic soldier should be allowed to attack are other robotic soldiers. Period. Within 10 years they will be able to build a fully autonomous soldier. It's only a matter of time after that, that we see robotic police that can smell the weed in your pocket from a quarter of a mile away and have even worse moral judgement than human cops.