Terminator Robots to Take Over the Battlefield by 2023?Nicholas West Nevertheless, the military-industrial complex and their partners in theCongressional drone caucus are reaping big profits from machine warfare. Simultaneously, the global economy is becoming increasingly robotized, with some experts predicting that humans will be completely outsourced to robots by 2045. Additionally, there is an overarching move toward humanoid robots with a goal to establish an emotional connection that current studies reveal is still lacking among the general population. However, studies done within the military have revealed that there has been an emotional connection established, with some soldiers even mourning robots that have been killed in action. Now, however, one expert is going on the record to say that it is very likely that humans will be outnumbered by battlebots as soon as 2023. Not only will soldiers be outnumbered they will be massively outnumbered by a factor of 10 to 1 according to robotic weapons expert, Scott Hartley: An article at Army of Robots highlights some of what populates the current landscape (edited for brevity): Daksh Daksh is one of the most current military robots. It is an electrically powered and remote controlled robot which is used to locate, handle and destroying risky objects safely. The main role of this military robot is to recover improvised explosive devices. In short it is a vehicle for defusing bombs. The current use of military robots like Daksh has helped military organization in many ways. This robot can even climb stairs to reach risky materials. Moreover, it can also scan objects using its portable X-ray device. Goalkeeper This military robot is a Dutch close-in weapon system that helps to defend ships from incoming missiles as well as ballistic shells. This system generally comprises of autocannon and advanced radar that tracks incoming fires. It is an automatic system that can be also be deployed to protect airfields. PackBot PackBot is basically a series of military robots. The most recent base model of this robot is PackBot 510. This model utilizes a videogame-style hand controllermake handier to young women and men. Configurations in this recent model include PackBot 510 with EOD bomb disposal, PackBot 510 with fast Tactical Maneuvering Kit; PackBot 510 with first responder kit, PackBot 510 with HazMat Detection Kit, PackBot 510 with Fido and PackBot 510 with REDOWL Sniper Detection Kit. (emphasis added). MARCbot A low-cost robotic platform that has been used in Iraq for the inspection of suspicious objects. This robot is one among the smallest and the most commonly used military robots. It looks like a small toy truck with an elevated mast on which a camera is mounted. The camera is utilized for looking behind doors. It has the capacity to run 6 hours on a set of fully charged batteries and was developed with the input of soldiers in Iraq to meet their needs. Besides the above-mentioned military robots, there are also other kinds of military robots. These robots include Guargium, RQ-9 Predator B, RQ-1 Predator, TALON, Samsung SGR-A1 and Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle. (Source) Scott Hartleys company, 5D Robotics, is one of the companies answering the call from the military to increase the capabilities of combat robots. 5D Robotics is focused on the software needed to offer a more human-level decision making ability, which directly leads into what has human rights groups and Cambridge so concerned: autonomy robots that can unilaterally decide which action to take, free of any human command: We seem to be heading toward a future where normal humans are being phased out if not completely by robots, then through enhancements and modifications that aim to create superhuman soldiers. We already are seeing killing at a distance from the use of remote controlled drone warfare. With new autonomous drone systems and increasing computer intelligence being created to supplant emotional human decisions (and errors, they claim), it is no longer a stretch of the imagination to see the near-future battlefield as a fully de-humanized computer game. The reality of non-human war is already here, and apparently we wont have too long to wait to see how it all plays out. You can see the 5D Robotics Overview in the video below: Recently by Nicholas West: 