AUTONOMOUS SMART SENTRY GUN MOVIE

Civil War (during whichĦ0,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves?Īs Verne understood, the U.S. These piecemeal men are unlikely crusaders of invention with an even more unlikely mission. Their “crutches, wooden legs, artificial arms, steel hooks, caoutchouc jaws, silver craniums platinum noses” don’t play leading roles in their personalities-they are merely tools on their bodies. The story of the Baltimore Gun Club propelling themselves to the moon is about the extraordinary masculine power of the veteran, who doesn’t simply “overcome” his disability he derives power and ambition from it. By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry. In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. By calling up the robot’s ID number, operators back in Seoul can also see in real time what is happening in the field. A digital video recorder captures data for up to 60 days at a time. The robot has three such cameras, two of which work in stereo for surveillance and tracking while the third zooms in for targeting. The machine’s real innovation is its color camera, which can pinpoint a target from up to 500 meters away in illumination down to 0.008 lux (lumens per square meter), about the same as a starlit night.

But the robot does have an automatic mode, in which it can make the decision. Should it detect an intruder, ”the ultimate decision about shooting should be made by a human, not the robot,” says Yoo, who led the team that designed the robot. The Samsung robot packs a 5-millimeter, Korean-made light machine gun. With one guard post every 50 meters along the southern side, two guards per post, and twelve shifts per day, the man-years spent on guard duty quickly add up. Unlike the border between the United States and Mexico or even those separating Israel from the occupied territories, the demilitarized zone that stretches for 250 kilometers between South and North Korea is patrolled along its entire length. South Korea’s need for such a robot is clear, he says. Watch the video of this South Korean guard robot.Īlso, take a look at the Handwear Computer Input Device Combat Glove (which was demonstrated at NextFest 2006).Myung Ho Yoo, a principal research engineer at Samsung’s Optics & Digital Imaging Division in Seongnam City, just southeast of Seoul, says the robot is the first of its kind to be commercialized.

South Korean Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot.

(Read the rest of Greg Bear's interview on Quantico.)Ī very early (possibly the earliest) reference to this kind of weapon is the automatic gun from Michael Crichton's 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain.īe sure to take a look at these real-life autonomous sentry guns:Īmateur roboticists (and gunmakers) built an autonomous sentry gun as a summer project. GB: 'I think they did that in Roger Rabbit, too.

AUTONOMOUS SMART SENTRY GUN MOVIE

T: For self-targeting bullets, Crichton directed a movie in the 1980's - Runaway - that showed self-targeting bullets. I discussed flechettes back in the 1980's - man, it's really happening.' Some of that stuff is astonishing the self-targeting bullets, the flechette technology. I've seen some of these things on the military Discovery channel. Have you seen the work they've been doing on sentry guns? Technovelgy: You also write about an ROAG.

In an interview with, Greg Bear had this to say about the ROAG: The Humvee had a ROAG - Remotely Operated Auto-targeting Gun - a rapid-fire twenty millimeter mounted over the roof like a small steel sewage pipe. Soldiers in the near-future Iraq of the novel had access to the latest in weapons.

Autonomous smart sentry gun