By akademiotoelektronik, 22/08/2022

Experts are shocked by a new military robot equipped with a precision rifle

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Recently, the company specializing in the development of Ghost Robotics military devices presented a robot-dog worthy of the worst science fiction scenarios, equipped with a rifle of.As expected, this announcement has not gone unnoticed, experts who did not hesitate to heavily criticize the robot-dog intended for military use.

Relatively little information has been published concerning the machine, but according to an Instagram publication of Sword International, a manufacturer of weapons who designed the rifle, the machine is called "Spur", for Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle (rifle without pilotfor special use).The Spur is probably the first creation of Ghost Robotics equipped with a weapon.According to Sword, the remote controlled barrel offers "a precision shot up to 1200 meters".

According to some experts, this technology marks an important milestone in the development of robots capable of killing, raising emotional and legal issues on their authorization and use.We interviewed Toby Walsh, AI teacher at Unsw Sydney.

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"Like thousands of my colleagues - other AI researchers - I am deeply concerned about this kind of developments.We do not know how autonomous these robots will be, ”says Walsh.But we have seen a technically similar robot used in a semi-autonomous way by Israel recently, to assassinate the main Iranian nuclear scientist, he adds.

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So far, we do not know how the different systems of the robot-dog of Ghost Robotics are autonomous.If for the moment its displacement is controlled by a human, the shooting system could very well be automated in the future, at least partially.Not to mention that many armed organizations around the world already use semi-autonomous, sometimes homemade drone systems, some of which seem very effective.

"I hope this will add urgency to the discussions underway at the UN to regulate this space, and will silence the voices that say that technology is far from being up to the point," said Walsh, referring toGhost Robotics robot.

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Of course, there are some divergent opinions, including that of Michael Horowitz, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and expert in autonomous weapons systems.He said he considered Ghost's robot-dog as similar to the type of armed drone already used by many international armies.

"Since the system is controlled by humans, and that other countries have developed armed and remote-controlled robotic terrestrial systems, I am not sure that this system raises new ethical questions beyond those raised by any systemremote -controlled, whether in the air or on the ground, "Horowitz told Futurism."But I would need to know more about the details of the system to be sure".

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The decision to arm a robot-chien place Ghost in front of its competitor Boston Dynamics in terms of armaments, which surprised the whole world with its technical demonstrations but has publicly committed not to arm its conceptions.An easy way for society to place itself at the top of an area always in demand, that of armaments technologies.

Remember, Boston Dynamics was very angry at the beginning of the year when artists set up a paintball pistol on his robot-dog spot, which is very similar in size and in functions to that of Ghost, based on hisQ-UGV Vision 60 model.

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"PS: this robot looks like that of an episode of the series‘ Black Mirror ’.It's not surprising.He takes us to a dystopian world that we find in this series.But let's not forget that we are not forced to finish in ‘Black Mirror’, "writes Walsh by following his first answer."Discussions are underway to regulate the deployment of these weapons.We should urge our political leaders to use these discussions urgently ”.

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