Can we get robots to fight our wars?

Here's an interesting review of today's combat robot technology: Where it is, and where it's going.

The short answer is that it will be years, if not decades, before humans are replaced on the battlefield -- even in the high-tech US Army.

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I agree that it will take years to replace a human. The cost of it all is going to be the most expensive aspect of that. But a machine only knows to do what it was told to do, it cannot improvise like a human being can. That's why I think that no matter what the weapons are on the battlefield they will never replace a human being.

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I think the compromise in the current designs is pretty good. The machines can drive themselves but when there is the possibility of attack a human, possibly many miles away, pulls the trigger

That makes it possible for a single human to operate multiple machines, and - even more importantly - the human's life is never endangered.

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Man vs. machine. It's almost a catch 22 situation.
Machines are great for defusing explosives, used as
predador drones in the sky ect.

I will always put my faith in the body, heart soul and mind
of a soldier.
What ever happened to the good ole days when conflicts
where settled with broadswords and battle axes...

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Well, actually, we had a lot more casualties.

There are still a lot of minor battles in the Civil War, Korean War, Vietnam, etc that cost us far more souls than have died in the Iraq war. And that's because of our ultra-modern, sophisticated battlefield techniques, which give us an enormous edge.

A lot of fine soldiers have been saved by this.

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