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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[i, for one, welcome our irobot taser overlords?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kirk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 8:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[lol.  now that is classic.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tarl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 9:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[Because people are really gonna just stand there and let that robot come shock them. I could probably outrun that robot, if not, i'd take a baseball bat to it's tasing arm :P.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellianth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 8:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[If IBM's BlueGene computer is little baby skynet, is this little baby T-1000?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[HaX80r]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 8:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[That thing better have a big, red stop button hardwired in.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 9:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[What if I throw water on it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 10:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just what I've always wanted, fricken robots with fricken taser beams attached to their heads.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr. Vage]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 9:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[Make sure it can say, "I'll be back!"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stan Winstone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 9:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[The moment they make the robots bulletproof and law enforcement agencies or the military decide to ask that the company install lethal weapons, then that is the time I will start to worry.  But, we won't have to worry much until artificial intelligence has advanced enough that it can evolve and learn about as effectively as Data of Star Trek or Skynet of Terminator or HAL of Space Odyssey 2001.  Then, again, if these were in the wrong hands, these would be very viable killing machines.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JJ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 10:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[I am sure that it is water resistant if not water proof. <br><br>Even if it does have lethal weapons, I am not worried. So long as it is still radio controlled. If it becomes autonomous then my RF jammer is useless and I'll break out the AP rounds. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[feffrey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 11:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[dang it! now my post apocalypse dune buggie has to be zombie proof AND robot proof!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kyle allen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 29th 2007 2:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[So...would these be street legal? The article doesn't answer the important questions: When are they available for consumers and how much? Can I get them at Best Buy?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 29th 2007 3:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[Oops...Asimov’s first law of Robotics, broken already...   “A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ferencter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 29th 2007 4:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/irobot-and-taser-to-produce-non-lethal-bots/</guid><description><![CDATA[At least now there will definately not be any chance of real reprecussions when another person is killed with a non-lethal taser by a cop.  It can be blamed on the disposable/upgradeable machine.<br>"our thoughts and prayers go out to citizen's family, If a terrorist hacker hadn't been using an unsanctioned linux laptop with al-queda like drivers for it's inter-tubes connecting air card, the freedom-machine 3000 would not have malfunctioned.  We will be destroying this freedom machine and the terrorist responsible." said an IM from mil-pol central.<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 29th 2007 9:29AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>