Robotic war

wolram

Is this the ultimate tool of a super power, and a cowardly solution to conflict? would not (kings) fighting (kings) be be the best solution to war.

Focus

Would not having a war at all be a better solution to war?

Ivan Seeking

Obviously you don't appreciate the thrill of robot warfare.

wolram

For sure it would.

Ivan Seeking

If warfare is to be eliminated, it will happen through economics and information flow, not philosophy.

MATLABdude

From Wikiquote:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_E_Lee

wolram

Nice one Ivan.

TheStatutoryApe

Nikola Tesla proposed robotic warfare as a better means of conducting war. He apparently made demonstrations of radio controled robots to the military but they were not interested. Probably too expensive.

Ivan Seeking

While in high school I gave a speech in which I argued that technology could lead to warfare in which no lives need to be lost. Of course I was looking at the world through the eyes of a young American who perceived the Soviet as the only real threat. But the idea was that once one side gained an advantage by destroying the other's defenses - say for example by destroying a space based LASER shield that guards against missile attack - the other side would simply surrender or they would face certain destruction. For many years I believed that day would come, but now it seems far less likely than before.

Count Iblis

http://iss.whu.edu.cn/degaris/

mgb_phys

So round one is between the IDF's robotic bulldozer and the Australian's robotic haul truck.