TECHNO FEAR

Army prepares 'robo-soldier' for Iraq

The US Army is preparing to send 18 remote-controlled robotic warriors to fight in Iraq beginning in March or April.
A SWORDS [Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems] robot shoots only when its human operator presses a button after identifying a target on video shot by the robot's cameras.
'The only difference is that his weapon is not at his shoulder, it's up to half a mile a way,' said Bob Quinn, general manager of Talon robots for Foster-Miller Inc., the Waltham, Mass., company that makes the SWORDS. As one Marine fresh out of boot camp told Quinn upon seeing the robot: 'This is my invisibility cloak.'

[The more like a video game war becomes, the less compassion there will be for our fellow man.]