The Brief Rise and Long Fall of Russia's Robot Tank 79
malachiorion writes with this report from Popular Science"Seventy-four years ago, Russia accomplished what no country had before, or has since: it sent armed ground robots into battle. These remote-controlled Teletanks took the field during one of WWII's earliest and most obscure clashes, as Soviet forces pushed into Eastern Finland for roughly three and a half months, from 1939 to 1940. The workings of those Teletanks were cool, though they were useless against Germany, and Russia proceeded to fall behind the developed world in military robotics."
Robot? (Score:5, Insightful)
Grooming propaganda for Google's Robot Tank (Score:1, Insightful)
Google is spending billions attempting to build autonomous robotic tanks for America's future wars of aggression. Google's 'pitch' when meeting generals, senior politicians and other significant figures in the West is "what would allow the US to choose to take out Iran TODAY".
Before US drones were commonly used to slaughter every Muslim attending some funeral in the Middle East, US movies depicted exactly the same scenes. Tom Clancy would specifically include events and ideas in his ultra right wing masturbation fantasies with the express and stated goal of having the USA implement such ideas for real. The vile neo-fascist director from South America who made the recent 'reboot' of Robocop chose to depict Google's wet-dream of a US robotic holocaust of Iran at the beginning of his movie. Unlike the anti-war, anti-fascist director of the original, satire was not a motivation of the reboot.
The owners of Slashdot have been previously grooming you by constantly promoting the nonsense of 'self-driving' cars - the first stage of Google propaganda to prepare the way for their robotic killing machines. The self-driving algorithms, while utterly useless for a vehicle that could tolerate not even one mistake, are perfect for robot tanks that can crush and slaughter a bus full of the 'other' without a murmur of complaint from the sheeple of the USA. By self-driving, the LAST thing Google means is 'safe' for civilians.
But this article is about 'Russian' tanks, you dribble, if you an unusually dim specimen of sheepleness. YES, but that is how grooming propaganda works. You NORMALISE an idea in the minds of the sheeple, so when it becomes actual, it seems as if that is a consequence of inevitability, NOT permission. So, previously on Slashdot it was ANY excuse to push the nonsense of coming self-driving cars on our roads. Now Google is buying up every available military robot research company, even the owners of Slashdot think hiding the truth from you i hopeless, so the second stage begins.
Re:Robot? (Score:4, Insightful)