{"id":29251,"date":"2016-08-22T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/iraq-is-preparing-an-armed-robot-to-fight-isis"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:52","slug":"iraq-is-preparing-an-armed-robot-to-fight-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/iraq-is-preparing-an-armed-robot-to-fight-isis","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Is Preparing an Armed Robot to Fight ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iraq-is-preparing-an-armed-robot-to-fight-isis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alrobot would not be the first robot to hit the sands of Baghdad, but it might become the first to actually fire a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, the U.S. Army <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/a2804\/4258963\/\">deployed three armed ground robots<\/a> called the Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System, or SWORDS, from weapons maker Foster-Miller (now owned by Qinetiq). SWORDS basically consisted of a Foster-Miller TALON robot armed with a machine gun. But the SWORDS were pulled off the battlefield before they were able to take a single shot.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Fahey, the Army\u2019s program executive officer for ground forces,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2008\/04\/armed-robots-st\/\"> explained why<\/a> the following year at a RoboBusiness Conference in Pittsburgh: \u201cThe gun started moving when it was not intended to move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.defenseone.com\/defenseone\/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/08\/iraq-preparing-armed-remote-control-robot-fight-isis\/130935\/\">http:\/\/cdn.defenseone.com\/defenseone\/interstitial.html?v=2.1...is\/130935\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alrobot would not be the first robot to hit the sands of Baghdad, but it might become the first to actually fire a weapon. Back in 2007, the U.S. Army deployed three armed ground robots called the Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System, or SWORDS, from weapons maker Foster-Miller (now owned by Qinetiq). SWORDS basically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66475,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251\/revisions\/66475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}